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Title
Host
Date
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
December 11, 2024
If you were born before 1980, you know the impact this tragedy had on you. This minute-by-minute telling is so well done without feeling overwhelming.…
Jamie
December 11, 2024
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
December 4, 2024
This is not breezy, but the way Harari writes about how information is leveraged by bureaucracy and mythology and how it’s manipulated for various ends…
Knox
December 4, 2024
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
March 27, 2024
This is probably one of my favorite nonfiction reads of the last few years. It sounds very dense and tough, but it is not. It…
Knox
March 27, 2024
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
April 14, 2021
I read everything Patrick writes because he takes wildly complex subjects and makes nonfiction read like a thrilling novel.
Jamie
April 14, 2021
The Day It Finally Happens
March 10, 2021
An entertaining but sometimes terrifying look at how humanity will handle a litany of unthinkable (but sometimes likely) events.
Knox
March 10, 2021
Hidden Valley Road
June 17, 2020
When non-fiction is almost unbelievable. I still think about this book more than a year later.
Jamie
June 17, 2020
The Body
May 6, 2020
This was such a DELIGHTFUL adventure into my own body. Bill Bryson is a season pass for me.
Jamie
May 6, 2020
Talking to Strangers
October 9, 2019
A fascinating cautionary tale in how humans relate and interact with one another.
Jamie
October 9, 2019
Knox
February 6, 2019