Non-Fiction Worth Reading

Beschreibung
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
von David Crystal
1,295 Mitglieder
18 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 252
2 Members
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What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem
von E. S. Turner
93 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
3.8
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The Fatal Shore
von Robert Hughes
3,880 Mitglieder
54 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 217
2 Members
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Erklärungen
thorold: Australian art historian takes on the British gulag. Required reading in the southern hemisphere.
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Preußen : Aufstieg und Niedergang 1600-1947
von Christopher Clark
1,278 Mitglieder
29 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 128
4 Members
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5
Boomer Railroad Memoirs
von Linda Niemann
89 Mitglieder
6 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 610
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Briefe von Robert Browning und Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
von Robert Browning
53 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
½ 4.7
Globaler Rang 634
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Picknick mit Bären
von Bill Bryson
16,853 Mitglieder
473 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 29
13 Members
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Erklärungen
thorold: Bryson before he ran out of new ideas
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84 Charing Cross Road
von Helene Hanff
5,836 Mitglieder
348 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 47
11 Members
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Überwachen und Strafen. Die Geburt des Gefängnisses.
von Michel Foucault
6,637 Mitglieder
42 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 70
7 Members
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
von Dava Sobel
9,202 Mitglieder
183 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 32
14 Members
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thorold : Absurdly sensational book that tells you nothing about clockmaking