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Good to see someone else knows about Stiff- thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening read (but she cuts the heads off!). I'll add a few of my favorites:
The Fatal Shore- Robert Hughes (riveting history of the founding of Australia)
Anything by Robert Massie- but my favorites are Peter the Great, Dreadnought and Nicholas and Alexandra
Stasiland- Anna Funder- (East Germany)
The Emperor of All Maladies- Siddhartha Mukherjee (this was mentioned but want to second it)
Anything by Jose Saramago but especially Blindness
Commander by Stephen Taylor (Lord Nelson)
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (boy soldier in Sierra Leone)
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