Books like The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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    Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532

    Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.

    Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.

  2. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

    David Grann · 2017

    Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.

    In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy…

  3. John Adams

    David McCullough · 2001

    Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.

    McCullough follows Adams from Braintree lawyer to second president.

  4. Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.

    Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.

  5. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond · 1997

    Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.

    Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others.

  6. The Devil in the White City

    Erik Larson · 2003

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.

    Architect Burnham builds the 1893 Chicago Fair while H.H. Holmes builds his murder hotel nearby.

  7. Unbroken

    Laura Hillenbrand · 2010

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.

    Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics.

  8. Night

    Elie Wiesel · 1956

    Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.

    Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the…

  9. The Diary of a Young Girl

    Anne Frank · 1952

    Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.

    Anne Frank's diary explained: two years in the Secret Annex, the entries on fear and boredom, what Otto Frank cut, and why the book still…

  10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    Yuval Noah Harari · 2011

    Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.

    Harari's Sapiens from cover to cover: the cognitive revolution, the agricultural bargain, shared fictions like money and nations, and the…

  11. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · 2014

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Thiel argues monopolies create value through vertical progress, not by copying competition.

  12. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

    Greg Mortenson · 2006

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.

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