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Erik Larson
Thunderstruck
3.8
15 min
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
3.8
13 min
Alan Weisman
The World Without Us
3.8
12 min
Ernesto Che Guevara
The Motorcycle Diaries
3.8
14 min
Tom Standage
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
3.8
15 min
Michael Lewis
Going Infinite
3.8
8 min
Casey Cep
Furious Hours
3.8
22 min
Alain de Botton
The Art of Travel
3.8
13 min
John Brooks
Business Adventures
3.8
30 min
Nancy Isenberg
White Trash
3.8
14 min
John Locke
Second Treatise of the Government
3.8
12 min
Erasmus
In Praise of Folly
3.8
5 min
Scott Galloway
The Four
3.8
15 min
Candice Millard
River of the Gods
3.8
17 min
Anderson Cooper
Astor
3.8
14 min
Brad Meltzer
The First Conspiracy
3.8
16 min
Masha Gessen
The Man Without A Face
3.8
16 min
Gary Taubes
The Case Against Sugar
3.8
11 min
Ben Shapiro
The Authoritarian Moment
4.2
9 min
James Gleick
Isaac Newton
3.8
14 min
Tom Nichols
The Death of Expertise
3.8
12 min
Walt Bogdanich
When McKinsey Comes to Town
3.8
17 min
Maryanne Wolf
Proust and the Squid
3.8
15 min
William MacAskill
What We Owe the Future
3.8
10 min
James B Stewart
Unscripted
3.8
13 min
Will Storr
Selfie
3.9
10 min
Heather Heying
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
3.8
12 min
Kate Andersen Brower
Elizabeth Taylor
4.2
14 min
Avi Loeb
Extraterrestrial
3.8
13 min
H. W. Brands
Reagan
4.1
18 min