Non-Fiction Worth Reading

Descripción
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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The Stories of English
por David Crystal
1,295 miembros
18 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 252
2 Members
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What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem
por E. S. Turner
93 miembros
4 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 607
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La Costa fatídica
por Robert Hughes
3,879 miembros
54 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 217
2 Members
thorold, peterveen
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thorold: Australian art historian takes on the British gulag. Required reading in the southern hemisphere.
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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
por Christopher Clark
1,278 miembros
29 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 128
4 Members
cpg, thorold, der_steppenwolf, chwiggy
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Boomer Railroad Memoirs
por Linda Niemann
89 miembros
6 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 610
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The letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846
por Robert Browning
53 miembros
1 reseña
½ 4.7
Ranking Global 634
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Mala ciencia
por Ben Goldacre
3,208 miembros
104 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 27
14 Members
Edward, hailelib, KarenElissa, kiwidoc, thorold, HollyBoggie, souloftherose, sssolstice, martensgirl, eclecticdodo, peterveen, Letz.Go, kjb3243, valeneayar
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Un paseo por el bosque
por Bill Bryson
16,851 miembros
473 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 29
13 Members
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thorold: Bryson before he ran out of new ideas
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84, Charing Cross Road
por Helene Hanff
5,835 miembros
348 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 47
11 Members
booksinbed, smcwl, thorold, merrystar, edparks, smasler, srdr, gypsysmom, ahef1963, This-n-That, TwinDaddy
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Vigilar y castigar
por Michel Foucault
6,637 miembros
42 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 70
7 Members
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
por Dava Sobel
9,202 miembros
183 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 32
14 Members
KimarieBee, kiwidoc, AnnaClaire, HollyBoggie, mkimzey, Legalrealist, altonmann, indigorising, Percevan, smasler, HxBuff, IraTozer, TashMason, jwagensveld,thorold
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thorold : Absurdly sensational book that tells you nothing about clockmaking