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Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

Peter the Great: His Life and World

The Romanovs #1

Robert K. Massie

1109 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
nonfiction biography history informative tense slow-paced
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact by Edmond Lau

The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

Edmond Lau

260 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
nonfiction computer science technology informative inspiring medium-paced
Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven

Pakistan: A Hard Country

Anatol Lieven

592 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
nonfiction history politics emotional slow-paced
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Walter Isaacson

560 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
nonfiction biography history science reflective medium-paced
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

544 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

Clayton M. Christensen

286 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
nonfiction business informative slow-paced
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott

Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Kim Malone Scott

246 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
nonfiction business informative reflective medium-paced
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

1769 pages • first pub 1862 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Politics of Place #1

Tim Marshall

256 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

496 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0anderskev's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative sad slow-paced