Michael Butler Murray

29 books

The Mind of a Bee by Lars Chittka

The Mind of a Bee

Lars Chittka

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction nature informative medium-paced
Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe by Andrew Spielman

Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe

Andrew Spielman

256 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson by Kent Babb

Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson

Kent Babb

311 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography sports informative slow-paced
Sense of Occasion by Harold Prince

Sense of Occasion

Harold Prince

343 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography challenging informative fast-paced
The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage by Jeff Abraham, Burt Kearns

The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage

Jeff Abraham, Burt Kearns

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman

Strategy: A History

Lawrence Freedman

751 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction business history politics informative slow-paced
Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old: A Highly Judgmental, Unapologetically Honest Accounting of All the Things Our Elders Are Doing Wrong by Steven Petrow

Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old: A Highly Judgmental, Unapologetically Honest Accounting of All the Things Our Elders Are Doing Wrong

Steven Petrow

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction health self help informative reflective medium-paced
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

Lewis Hyde

432 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott III

Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott III

480 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction science adventurous informative lighthearted slow-paced
The Wreckage of Agathon by John Gardner

The Wreckage of Agathon

John Gardner

279 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction historical philosophy reflective medium-paced