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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

Simon Singh

Science & nature

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

Fiction

The Rape of Nanking

Iris Chang

History

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

History

How Music Works

David Byrne

Arts & entertainment

The Post-American World

Fareed Zakaria

Nonfiction

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Fiction

The Map That Changed the World

Simon Winchester

Nonfiction

100 Great Operas and Their Stories

Henry W. Simon

Arts & entertainment

1421

Gavin Menzies

History

1491

Charles C. Mann

History

18 Platoon

Sydney Jary

History

1939: The Lost World of the Fair

David Gelernter

History

1944

Jay Winik

History

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

Economics & politics

A Brief History of Everything

Ken Wilber

Spirituality & religion

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

History

A Cultural History of Physics

Károly Simonyi

History

A Grain of Wheat

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

History

A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs

Ben Garrod

History

A History of Civilizations

Fernand Braudel

Economics & politics

A History of Economic Theory

Jurg Niehans

History

A History of God

Karen Armstrong

Spirituality & religion

A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1

Mircea Eliade

Spirituality & religion

A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 2

Mircea Eliade

Spirituality & religion

A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3

Mircea Eliade

Spirituality & religion

A History of Rome

Moses Hadas

History

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Neil Macgregor

Arts & entertainment

A History of Western Technology

Friedrich Klemm

Technology

A History of World Agriculture

Marcel Mazoyer & Laurence Roudart

History

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