Shelf · 22 recaps
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22 books
Stiff
Mary Roach
The Feather Thief
Kirk Wallace Johnson
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean
The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester
The Book of Eels
Patrik Svensson
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Longitude
Dava Sobel
If on a winter's night a traveler
Italo Calvino
Cod
Mark Kurlansky
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Lawrence Weschler
Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
The Stranger in the Woods
Michael Finkel
The Confidence Men
Margalit Fox
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Allison Hoover Bartlett
Consider the Fork
Bee Wilson
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal
Rust
Jonathan Waldman
Fordlandia
Greg Grandin
The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker
Ella Minnow Pea
Mark Dunn
S.
J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst