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Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 1) by Patrick O'Brian

Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 1)

Aubrey & Maturin #1

Patrick O'Brian

448 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction classics historical adventurous slow-paced
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated by Roland Huntford

The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated

Roland Huntford

640 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

412 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

165 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Palimpsest by Gore Vidal

Palimpsest

Gore Vidal

448 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction memoir emotional slow-paced
Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas

Soldiers of Salamis

Javier Cercas

224 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

fiction historical challenging reflective slow-paced
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

632 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark slow-paced
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Rick Perlstein

896 pages • first pub 2008 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo

Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

Domenico Losurdo

353 pages • first pub 2008 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Time to Keep Silence

Patrick Leigh Fermor

96 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

nonfiction memoir religion travel reflective slow-paced