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True Stories of Con Artists That Explain Why the Story Worked

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Books for People Who Think They Do Not Like Reading
Books for People Who Think They Do Not Like Reading
by book_guy  • 
In common: Bad Blood
If films, podcasts and a good conversation usually win your attention, start with the kind of experience you already enjoy. These books offer an immediate voice, a compelling question or pictures...
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Books That Make a Long Train Journey Fly By
Books That Make a Long Train Journey Fly By
by book_guy  • 
In common: Bad Blood
A good train book establishes its voice quickly and gives you a reason to return after a platform change or an announcement. These choices range from mysteries and speculative adventures to...
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Nature Poetry Collections That Change What You Notice on a Walk
Nature Poetry Collections That Change What You Notice on a Walk
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
Take one of these books out on a walk you already know. A grasshopper washing its face, a street fig ripening, or rain running over roof tiles can give you a different place to put your attention...
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Nigerian Novels With Different Kinds of City Life
Nigerian Novels With Different Kinds of City Life
by book_guy  • 
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Follow a mechanic through Yenagoa, new students around a Benin City campus, or three strangers to the water’s edge in Lagos. These novels let you choose a city by the part of life you want to...
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People Who Built Archives That Still Matter
People Who Built Archives That Still Matter
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
A book in a basement, a diary hidden in a milk can, and a song recorded on a lacquer disc can all become evidence. These people helped build collections around records that were being discarded...
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Accidental Discoveries That Changed the World
Accidental Discoveries That Changed the World
by curious_compiler  • 
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Genuine accidents in science are rarer than the legends suggest. This list keeps to discoveries where the surprise is on record, in a paper, a patent, a lab report or the discoverer's own account...
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Memoirs of Disability That Expand the Story Beyond Overcoming
Memoirs of Disability That Expand the Story Beyond Overcoming
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
An emailed menu means you can choose your own lunch. An art opening up a steep flight of stairs determines who gets to see the work. These memoirs follow disabled writers through school, jobs...
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Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
by book_guy  • 
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Hope is more convincing when the work behind it remains visible. These novels, memoirs and reported accounts find it in practical care, resistance, persistent relationships and changed ways of...
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Unreliable Narrators Worth Trusting With Your Time
Unreliable Narrators Worth Trusting With Your Time
by book_guy  • 
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A persuasive voice can give you reasons to keep listening and reasons to keep checking. These books make that double attention rewarding through selective memory, self-defence, social ambition and...
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History Told Through Ordinary People’s Lives
History Told Through Ordinary People’s Lives
by book_guy  • 
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A midwife’s diary, a miller’s testimony, and a family’s embroidered sack each preserve a different part of the past. These books start with people whose lives rarely made it into official...
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Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A useful change of mind often begins with a judgement that stops feeling adequate. These novels and memoirs make room for conflicting loyalties, incomplete knowledge and lives that resist a...
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Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
by book_guy  • 
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A change of speaker can change what counts as the problem. These novels give different accounts and perspectives room to expose conflicting loyalties, private needs and unequal power. Some...
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People Who Changed How Science Records and Shares Knowledge
People Who Changed How Science Records and Shares Knowledge
by curious_compiler  • 
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Discoveries only matter once other people can find, check and build on them. This list follows the people behind the systems that make that possible: the first scientific journal, a naming scheme...
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Science Fiction About Memory, Identity and Who Gets to Decide
Science Fiction About Memory, Identity and Who Gets to Decide
by book_guy  • 
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A memory can be evidence, a possession, a bond with someone else or a version of events that an institution would rather replace. These books make that uncertainty part of their speculative...
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Short-Story Collections That Build Into Something Larger
Short-Story Collections That Build Into Something Larger
by book_guy  • 
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A strong collection gives you reasons to turn to the next story as well as reasons to sit with the one just finished. These books build larger effects through recurring people, changes in form...
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Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
by book_guy  • 
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A creative life is made from repeated decisions about materials, time, other people and the money needed to continue. These novels pay attention to that work across ceramics, textiles...
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