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  • Mark Yarm The best oral history books about art, music, TV, and movies Book cover of Edie: American Girl Book cover of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Book cover of Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests Book cover of Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do Book cover of Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
  • Joan Fallon The best books on the Spanish Civil War through oral history and narrative Book cover of Spanish Testament Book cover of Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War Book cover of For Whom the Bell Tolls Book cover of Malaga Burning: An American Woman's Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War Book cover of Between Two Fires: Guerrilla War In The Spanish Sierras
  • Diane Sherry Case The best books about running away Book cover of Edie: American Girl Book cover of Breakfast at Tiffany's Book cover of The Hearing Trumpet Book cover of Life of Pi Book cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Jana Mathews The best books to make you wish you joined a sorority or fraternity…or be glad you didn’t Book cover of Bound By a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920 Book cover of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities Book cover of Women of Discriminating Taste: White Sororities and the Making of American Ladyhood Book cover of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus Book cover of Rush
  • Joanne B. Ciulla The best books to read when your job is ruining your life Book cover of Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do Book cover of The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia Book cover of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Book cover of The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling Book cover of Man’s Search for Meaning
  • Peter Cappelli The best books if you hate your job and dread job hunting—here's what's wrong Book cover of Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do Book cover of Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today Book cover of Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s-2000s Book cover of Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America Book cover of Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance―and What We Can Do About It
  • Lisa Dickey The best books about the Russian people Book cover of Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning Book cover of Behind Putin's Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia Book cover of A Russian Journal Book cover of Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Book cover of Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
  • Natalie Zacek The best books on the English Caribbean Book cover of Capitalism and Slavery Book cover of A Small Place Book cover of Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War Book cover of A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados Book cover of A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • Phoebe Hoban The best books on genre-bending artists: inside and out Book cover of Diane Arbus: A Biography Book cover of Edie: American Girl Book cover of The Blazing World Book cover of Theft Book cover of Self-Portrait with Boy
  • Timothy J. Shannon The best books about con artists and imposters Book cover of The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade Book cover of The Return of Martin Guerre Book cover of Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier Book cover of Joe Gould's Teeth Book cover of The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
  • Tim Pritchard The best books about street gangs, how they develop and why they fall apart Book cover of A Brief History of Seven Killings Book cover of Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King Book cover of Oliver Twist Book cover of True History of the Kelly Gang Book cover of Gangs: A Journey into the Heart of the British Underworld
  • James McGrath Morris The best books to understand the Spanish Civil War Book cover of The Spanish Civil War Book cover of For Whom the Bell Tolls Book cover of Homage to Catalonia Book cover of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Book cover of Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
  • Kymberly Dakin-Neal The best books on our quietest superpower: listening Book cover of You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters Book cover of Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone Book cover of The Empathy Exams: Essays Book cover of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen Book cover of Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
  • Henry Virgin The best books on psychological enquiry written in alternative formats Book cover of Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Book cover of Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited Book cover of Riot Days Book cover of The Idiot Book cover of The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
  • Paulette F.C. Steeves The best books about archaeology and rethinking the peopling of the Americas Book cover of Bones, Boats, & Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America Book cover of Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture Book cover of Where the South Winds Blow: Ancient Evidence for Paleo South Americans Book cover of Strangers in a New Land: What Archaeology Reveals about the First Americans Book cover of Red Earth, White Lies
  • Lin Poyer The best books on indigenous experiences of WW2 in the Pacific Islands Book cover of Memories of War: Micronesians in the Pacific War Book cover of Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands Book cover of Solomon Islanders in World War II: An Indigenous Perspective Book cover of Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War Book cover of Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific
  • Kathryn J. Atwood The best books on the Pacific Theater of World War II Book cover of Unbroken Book cover of Song of Survival: Women Interned Book cover of We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan Book cover of I Saw The Fall Of The Philippines Book cover of Japan at War: An Oral History
  • Jonathan Howland The best books about men in love (who aren’t lovers) Book cover of Absalom, Absalom! Book cover of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories Book cover of Moby-Dick Book cover of A Brief History of Seven Killings Book cover of A Soldier of the Great War
  • Stewart Binns The best books about 20th century conflict Book cover of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Book cover of The Origins of the Second World War Book cover of The Face of Battle Book cover of Parting the Waters Book cover of Japan at War: An Oral History
  • Joshua M. Greene The best books on Holocaust testimony Book cover of Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory Book cover of Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945 Book cover of Survival in Auschwitz Book cover of Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life And Letters From Westerbork Book cover of Memory Perceived: Recalling the Holocaust
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