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108 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.

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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard a Half Century of Silence
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
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The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
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The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
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The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
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Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
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How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
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Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchhill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz
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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
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Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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