Sophie Roell
134 BOOKS

Sophie Roell

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Sophie Roell has shared book recommendations indexed across multiple publications and interviews.

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The Survivors: A NovelThe Night GateRecklessTranscendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and TimeSlavery and BristolWar: How Conflict Shaped UsA World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should RespondTwilight of DemocracyThe Story of RussiaExistential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions
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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the BicycleSlouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth CenturyThe Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War IThe Last Emperor of MexicoStalin's Library: A Dictator and his BooksAtomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the BombThis Mortal Coil: A History of DeathThe Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the FutureA Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and LifeBreaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
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Ethel Rosenberg: An American TragedyCareer and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward EquityRiver Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk RoadsThe Russo-Ukrainian WarKing: A LifeWitchcraft: A History in Thirteen TrialsHow to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living WellPower and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and ProsperityA Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long WarHumanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
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Travels with Tocqueville Beyond AmericaThe Earth Transformed: An Untold HistoryThe Wife of Bath: A BiographyOne by OneMagpie LaneA Place of ExecutionThe Searcher: A NovelGuilt at the GarageThe Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly VirusA Little History of Art
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My Fourth Time, We DrownedA Brief History of EqualityAtoms and AshesBe Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for FreedomTalk on the Wild Side: The Untameable Nature of LanguageBeyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse SagasHaig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western FrontOttoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost EmpirePax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden AgeVergil: The Poet's Life
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Ian Fleming: The Complete ManThe Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung TrailblazersThe Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of NeoliberalismSuper-Infinite: The Transformations of John DonneDevil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy ChaptersNot One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War StalemateChip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical TechnologyA Murder is AnnouncedBrat Farrar (1949)
SHELF · 07
The Quiche of DeathThe Body on the BeachThe Thursday Murder ClubAn Unsuitable Job for a WomanFlags on the BayouAll the Sinners BleedTell Me What I AmEverybody KnowsThe Peacock and the SparrowPatriot: A Memoir
SHELF · 08
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down RussiaHitler's People: The Faces of the Third ReichThe Golden RoadThe Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington PlaceThe Running GraveDead of NightGaslightExilesBad KidsThe Alaska Sanders Affair
SHELF · 09
The HunterListen for the LieThe Midnight FeastThe ProfilerOut of Africa (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)Why Evolution is TrueInfluence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised EditionA Random Walk Down Wall StreetThe Diary of Anne FrankThe Upstairs Room
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BBC History of World War II (Documentary)The Periodic TableMausAll the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to HitlerThe Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George IIIBurning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen CraneThe Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the WorldChasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow SouthKindle PaperwhiteBombard the Headquarters! The Cultural Revolution in China
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The Death of StalinPutin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary ChaosShamanism: The Timeless ReligionIran's Grand Strategy: A Political HistoryThe Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of NationalismAbortion: A HistoryMaria Theresa: EmpressStronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our LivesHouse of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful CompanyHow to End a Story: Collected Diaries
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 YearsWild Thing: A Life of Paul GauguinThe Story of a HeartTo the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident MovementThe Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted MicrochipThe Unquiet GraveFinlay Donovan Digs Her Own GraveThe Cut Throat TrialThe CureThe Moonstone
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The Hound of the BaskervillesThe ABC Murders (1936)The Talented Mr. RipleyShiverLightseekersThe Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume 2The Last Secret (Scarlet and Ivy, Book 6)Winter in WartimeThe Good ThievesThe Beast of Buckingham Palace
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How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal PhilosophyI, ClaudiusThe Woman in WhiteA Voice in the Night