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• october book challenge
  • the making of the atomic bomb, by richard rhodes
  • the road to jonestown: jim jones and the peoples temple, by jeff guinn
  • ufos and nukes: extraordinary encounters at nuclear weapons sites, by robert l. hastings
  • the conjuring of america: mojos, mermaids, medicine, and 400 years of black women’s magic, by lindsey stewart
  • ✔ a taste for poison: eleven deadly molecules and the killers who used them, by neil bradbury
  • dancing cockatoos and the dead man test: how behavior evolves and why it matters, by marlene zuk
• ✔ moon shot: the inside story of america’s race to the moon, by howard benedict, deke slayton, jay barbree, alan shepard
• ✔ everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection, by john green
• ✔ cultish: the language of fanaticism, by amanda montell
• megafauna: giant beasts of pleistocene south america, by richard a. fariña, sergio f. vizcaíno, gerry de iuliis
• ✔ challenger: a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space, by adam higginbotham
• ✔ vanishing treasures: a bestiary of extraordinary endangered creatures, by katherine rundell
• airframe, by michael crichton
• the mystery of the exploding teeth: and other curiosities from the history of medicine, by thomas morris
• ✔ cult following: the extreme sects that capture our imaginations — and take over our lives, j.w. ocker
• ten birds that changed the world, by stephen moss