Non-Fiction Worth Reading

Descripció
Obviously different people have different ideas of what makes a book worth reading. But for you personally, was it worth the time it took to read?
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
de Bill Bryson
23,208 membres
398 ressenyes
4.2
Classificació global 12
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lorax: An error-ridden mess complete with random gratuitous homophobia. Read it for the biographies, but don't believe the science if you didn't already know it (and maybe not even then, if you believe that glass flows.)
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On Writing
de Stephen King
18,524 membres
516 ressenyes
4.2
Classificació global 28
14 Members
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
de Daniel Kahneman
11,720 membres
225 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 20
16 Members
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
de Maryanne Wolf
1,758 membres
49 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 172
3 Members
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
de Caspar Henderson
486 membres
9 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 471
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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
de Riley Black
276 membres
13 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 200
3 Members
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