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New York Time’s Notable Book
124 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
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JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
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The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
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Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich and the Rise of the New Republican Party
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Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
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The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working – Class Revolution
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American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Secret History of Adoption
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and A Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
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Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
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Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
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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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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
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The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Battle for Its Inner Soul
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
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Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
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Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America
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Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
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The School for Good Mothers: A Novel
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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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When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
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Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
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How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
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Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
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The American War in Afghanistan: A History
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The Family Roe: An American Story
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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane
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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
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The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A Baker III
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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War- A Tragedy in Three Acts
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchhill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz
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Until the End of Time: Mind Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
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Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
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