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The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology

Edwin Sidney Hartland

History

The Scourge of the Swastika

Edward Frederick Langley Russell

Economics & politics

The Scramble for Africa

Thomas Pakenham

Economics & politics

The Search for Modern China

Jonathan D. Spence

Economics & politics

The Second Coming of the KKK

Linda Gordon

History

The Second World War

John Keegan

History

The Second World War

Winston Churchill

History

The Secret of Our Success

Joseph Henrich

History

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Wade Davis

Spirituality & religion

The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

History

The Sleepwalkers

Arthur Koestler

Philosophy

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

History

The Smartest Guys in the Room

Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind

Money & investing

The Social Leap

William von Hippel

History

The Son Also Rises

Gregory Clark

Economics & politics

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

History

The Spanish Civil War

Hugh Thomas

History

The Spirit of St. Louis

Charles A. Lindbergh

History

The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson

History

The Spy and the Traitor

Ben Macintyre

History

The Strangest Man

Graham Farmelo

History

The Sun Does Shine

Anthony Ray Hinton

Biography & memoir

The Third Chimpanzee

Jared Diamond

History

The Third Pillar

Raghuram G. Rajan

History

The Thirty Years War

C. V. Wedgwood

History

The Tiger

John Vaillant

History

The Transformation of American Law 1870 - 1960

Morton J. Horwitz

History

The Travels of Marco Polo

Marco Polo

History

The Trial of Socrates

I.F. Stone

Philosophy

The Trident

Jason Redman

History

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