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Description: My list of books I want to read.

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Markus Zusak

45,153 members

2,128 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, Alexlegrand99

2

by Herman Melville

507 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

3

Mardi and a voyage thither

by Herman Melville

239 members

5 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

4

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu

2,371 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

5

The Republic of Letters

by Marc Fumaroli

57 members

1 review

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

6

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

by Stephen R. Platt

306 members

5 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

7

The Other Woman

by Daniel Silva

1,047 members

29 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

8

289 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

9

White by Law : The Legal Construction of Race

by Ian Haney Lopez

186 members

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

10

Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th Century Mediterranean

by Adrian Tinniswood

265 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

11

How to Lie with Maps

by Mark Monmonier

723 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

12

How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

by Alberto Cairo

142 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

13

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

by Ross Douthat

213 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

14

The Palace of Dreams

by Ismaîl Kadaré

622 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

15

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

by Craig Whitlock

304 members

11 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Alexlegrand99

16

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

by Tim Marshall

326 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Alexlegrand99

17

Cuba: An American History

306 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: Alexlegrand99

18

by Gary Jennings

1,806 members

43 reviews

4.1

Member: Alexlegrand99

19

The Cat Who Saved Books

by Sōsuke Natsukawa

1,236 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

20

State of Terror

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

1,415 members

90 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

21

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

by Edward Wilson-Lee

608 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

22

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

by Marc Reisner

1,759 members

35 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Alexlegrand99

23

The Taste of Sugar: A Novel

by Marisel Vera

78 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

24

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

by Deirdre Mask

681 members

29 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

25

The Cuban Affair

by Nelson DeMille

883 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Alexlegrand99

26

The Arsonists' City

177 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: Alexlegrand99

27

Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India

by Jessica Namakkal

9 members

Member: Alexlegrand99

28

A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910

212 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

29

Decadence: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

41 members

3 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

30

The Last Prince Of Bengal: A Family’s Journey from an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback

3 members

Member: Alexlegrand99

31

by William Beckford

1,299 members

44 reviews

3.1

Member: Alexlegrand99

32

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance

by Elizabeth F. Thompson

67 members

1 review

½ 4.6

Member: Alexlegrand99

33

When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty

by Hugh Kennedy

332 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Alexlegrand99

34

The Colony: A History of Early Sydney

by Grace Karskens

83 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: Alexlegrand99

35

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

by Daniel Immerwahr

1,135 members

23 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Alexlegrand99

36

The Immortals of Tehran

61 members

3

Member: Alexlegrand99

37

by Sanjena Sathian

367 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Alexlegrand99

38

Salvador Allende: Revolutionary Democrat (Revolutionary Lives)

by Victor Figueroa Clark

30 members

3

Member: Alexlegrand99

39

The Overthrow of Allende and the Politics of Chile, 1964-1976

by Paul E. Sigmund

19 members

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

40

The Great Thirst: Californians and Water-A History, Revised Edition

by Norris Hundley Jr.

93 members

1 review

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

41

Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii

by Susanna Moore

98 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: Alexlegrand99

42

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

1,048 members

72 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

43

by Morten Dürr

51 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

44

The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas

82 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Alexlegrand99

45

Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

by H. W. Brands

324 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

46

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

4,940 members

254 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

47

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan

3,183 members

58 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

48

Your House Will Pay

399 members

23 reviews

4.2

Member: Alexlegrand99

49

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

by Agatha Christie

3,118 members

47 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

50

The Girl They Left Behind

by Roxanne Veletzos

298 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

51

Next Year in Havana

by Chanel Cleeton

1,094 members

68 reviews

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

52

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

by Jonathan Phillips

108 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: Alexlegrand99

53

638 members

36 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

54

Fodor's The Complete Guide to African Safaris: with South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia, and the Seychelles (Full-color Travel Guide)

by Fodor's Travel Guides

21 members

½ 4.3

Member: Alexlegrand99

55

Urban tourism and development in the socialist state : Havana during the 'special period'

by Andrea Colantonio

2 members

Member: Alexlegrand99

56

An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860

by Leila Tarazi Fawaz

10 members

½ 1.5

Member: Alexlegrand99

57

American Colonies: The Settling of North America

1,305 members

12 reviews

4.1

Member: Alexlegrand99

58

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

385 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

59

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

by Francis Fukuyama

706 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: Alexlegrand99

60

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

by Francis Fukuyama

1,300 members

26 reviews

4.2

Member: Alexlegrand99

61

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World

by Adrienne Mayor

314 members

5 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

62

The Arabs: A History

by Eugene Rogan

731 members

6 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

63

Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship

by Steven Ujifusa

94 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

64

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

by Paul Collier

246 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

65

Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

by Fawaz A. Gerges

65 members

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

66

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

7,313 members

198 reviews

4.2

Member: Alexlegrand99

67

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

by Charles C. Mann

2,472 members

66 reviews

4.1

Member: Alexlegrand99

68

Peach Blossom Spring

400 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: Alexlegrand99

69

Tangier: City of the Dream

by Iain Finlayson

53 members

½ 3.6

Member: Alexlegrand99

70

Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will

by Judith Schalansky

1,015 members

42 reviews

4.2

Member: Alexlegrand99

71

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories

by Meron Hadero

17 members

½ 4.4

Member: Alexlegrand99

72

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

3,635 members

104 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

73

This Time Tomorrow

1,034 members

61 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

74

Destination Unknown

by Agatha Christie

2,292 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Alexlegrand99

75

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

134 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Alexlegrand99

76

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,602 members

697 reviews

4.2

Member: Alexlegrand99

77

by Gyorgy Dragoman

101 members

4 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

78

West from Singapore

by Louis L'Amour

307 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Alexlegrand99

79

The Lottery and Other Stories

by Shirley Jackson

3,665 members

93 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

80

The Bandit Queens

by Parini Shroff

582 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: Alexlegrand99

81

The Mountain in the Sea

780 members

38 reviews

4

Member: Alexlegrand99

82

The Moon Is Down

by John Steinbeck

3,410 members

105 reviews

3.8

Member: Alexlegrand99

83

This Bird Has Flown

by Susanna Hoffs

161 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Alexlegrand99

84

by Lawrence Wright

70 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Alexlegrand99

85

by Richard Adams

25,020 members

473 reviews

4.2

Member: Alexlegrand99

86

Pride and Prejudice

81,109 members

1,371 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Alexlegrand99

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Started: Alexlegrand99
September 2022
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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