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The Power Broker

The Power Broker details Robert Caro’s exhaustive investigation into Robert Moses, a pivotal figure in twentieth-century...

New York Political Urban Planning Caro

9.5 Brilliant

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Meditations

Meditations is a personal journal written by Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher. It offers insights in...

Philosophy Memoir Roman Stoicism

9.5 Brilliant

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The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson's 2010 book explores the Great Migration by tracking the lives of African Americans who left the rural...

African American Narrative History Migration

9.2 Excellent

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Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe's 2021 investigative book chronicles the Sackler family's role in the opioid crisis and the marketi...

Business True Crime Keefe Sackler

8.9 Great

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The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer's 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime narrative chronicles the life and execution of convicted murderer...

American True Crime Mailer Capital Punishment

8.8 Great

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Shoe Dog

This 2016 memoir by Nike co-founder Phil Knight chronicles the early, risky years of building the iconic global sportswe...

Business American Nike Memoir

8.7 Great

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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Piers Paul Read's 1974 book documenting the harrowing 1972 Andes flight disaster, where a Uruguayan rugby team survived...

Narrative Survival Disaster Latin American

8.7 Great

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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow's 1998 biography chronicles the life of John D. Rockefeller, the American business magnate who founded the S...

Business American Gilded Age Chernow

8.6 Great

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Creativity, Inc.

This 2014 business memoir by Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull explores the management philosophies and creative processes beh...

Business Tech Pixar Memoir

8.5 Great

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The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson's 2003 historical narrative intertwines the story of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with the murders of seria...

American True Crime Gilded Age Larson

8.4 Great

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The Everything Store

Brad Stone's 2013 biographical book details the founding and rapid corporate rise of Amazon under the leadership of its...

Amazon Business Tech Stone

8.2 Great

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Flash Boys

Michael Lewis's 2014 nonfiction book profiles a group of Wall Street outsiders who discovered how high-frequency traders...

Finance Narrative American Trading

8.1 Great

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

This 2014 business memoir by technology entrepreneur Ben Horowitz offers practical advice on navigating difficult manage...

Business Tech Memoir Startups

7.8 Good

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The Brain That Changes Itself

Psychiatrist Norman Doidge's 2007 book explores neuroplasticity through biographical case studies of scientists and pati...

Narrative Science Medical Neuroscience

7.8 Good

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The Feather Thief

Kirk Wallace Johnson's 2018 true-crime book investigates the bizarre 2009 theft of rare bird skins from a British museum...

Narrative True Crime British Museum

7.8 Good

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Hit Refresh

Published in 2017, this memoir by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella details his personal journey and his strategy for transfor...

Business Microsoft Tech Memoir

7.5 Good

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Delivering Happiness

This 2010 business memoir by Tony Hsieh details his career as an internet entrepreneur and his efforts to build the corp...

Business American Memoir Hsieh

7.3 Good

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Thunderstruck

Erik Larson's 2006 historical narrative parallels the invention of wireless telegraphy by Guglielmo Marconi with the cri...

History Science True Crime Larson

7.2 Good

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Accidental Empires

Robert X. Cringely's 1992 historical book detailing the rise of the personal computer industry and its influential tech...

Narrative American Silicon Valley Tech

7.2 Good

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Losing My Virginity

This 1998 autobiography by British entrepreneur Richard Branson details his business ventures and the creation of the Vi...

Business Entrepreneurship British Memoir

7.0 Good