Inventions
101. 
In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead
by:
Susan J. Douglas
3.59 avg rating — 137 ratings 103. 
Varieties of Religious Invention: Founders and Their Functions in History
by:
Patrick Gray
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 104. 
Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
by:
Sean Patrick
3.88 avg rating — 30,002 ratings 104. 
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
by:
Bruce Goldfarb
3.69 avg rating — 3,762 ratings 106. 
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
by:
Russell Freedman
3.89 avg rating — 1,179 ratings 106. 
Enshrining The Nation: Monuments To Forgetting And The Invention Of Historical Memory
by:
Jaymee T. Siao
4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings 108. 
Alex Steinweiss. The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover (Bibliotheca Universalis)
by:
Kevin Reagan
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings 
111. 
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
by:
Dorothy Roberts
4.25 avg rating — 1,842 ratings 112. 
Helena Rubenstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty
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Michèle Fitoussi
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 363 ratings 
114. 
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World 3.61 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
114. 
Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
by:
Michael Cannell
3.83 avg rating — 1,151 ratings 116. 
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West
by:
Candace Fleming
4.02 avg rating — 195 ratings 116. 
The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
by:
Mark Bowen
4.12 avg rating — 110 ratings 118. 
The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun: An Odyssey of Innocence
by:
Paul Gallico
3.60 avg rating — 190 ratings 
123. 
Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C.F. Martin and His Contemporaries
by:
James Westbrook
4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings 124. 
The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: And Other Surprising Stories about Inventions
by:
Don L. Wulffson
3.94 avg rating — 292 ratings 124. 
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
by:
Les Standiford
3.63 avg rating — 3,846 ratings 126. 
The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
by:
T.R. Reid
4.27 avg rating — 882 ratings 
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
by:
Gary Krist
4.14 avg rating — 2,026 ratings 
132. 
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
by:
Frances Gies
3.88 avg rating — 925 ratings 
134. 
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
by:
Simon Winchester
3.86 avg rating — 4,252 ratings 134. 
Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP
by:
Jeff Nesbit
3.71 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life
by:
Andy Raskin
3.54 avg rating — 809 ratings 145. 
Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It
by:
Jack Mitchell
4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings 
147. 
The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida
by:
Lu Vickers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 151. 
Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor
by:
Michael J. Gelb
3.83 avg rating — 165 ratings 151. 
153. 
The Real McCoy: The Life of an African-American Inventor
by:
Wendy Towle
4.08 avg rating — 86 ratings 153. 
Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism
by:
Marc Aronson
4.03 avg rating — 222 ratings 155. 
155. 
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government 4.20 avg rating — 626 ratings
157. 
They Laughed at Galileo: How the Great Inventors Proved Their Critics Wrong
by:
Albert Jack
3.72 avg rating — 272 ratings 157. 
Inventions: The Legendary Works (A) of America’s (B) Most Honored (C) Cartoonist 3.94 avg rating — 98 ratings
159. 
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
by:
Mitchell Duneier
3.74 avg rating — 575 ratings 
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How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
by:
Kevin Ashton
4.01 avg rating — 2,190 ratings 167. 
The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
by:
Evan I. Schwartz
4.21 avg rating — 186 ratings 
169. 
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
by:
Kevin M. Kruse
3.96 avg rating — 2,551 ratings 
171. 
The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession
by:
James Ward
3.84 avg rating — 613 ratings 
173. 
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex 4.02 avg rating — 372 ratings
175. 
Thomas Edison: The Great American Inventor (Barrons Solution Series)
by:
Louise Egan
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 175. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,485 ratings 
179. 
Black Stars: African American Women Scientists and Inventors
by:
James Haskins
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings 179. 
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
by:
Neal Gabler
4.01 avg rating — 765 ratings 
181. 
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
by:
Arthur Herman
3.94 avg rating — 6,616 ratings 
183. 
The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation
by:
Gilbert Ford
4.05 avg rating — 502 ratings 
185. 
The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
by:
Arkady Ostrovsky
4.02 avg rating — 1,863 ratings 187. 
Great Inventors and Inventions Coloring Book (Dover World History Coloring Books)
by:
Bruce Lafontaine
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 187. 
African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
189. 
The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford
by:
Suzanne Slade
4.20 avg rating — 243 ratings 189. 
Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures
by:
Paul Lukacs
3.55 avg rating — 250 ratings 191. 
Brainstorm!: The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors
by:
Tom Tucker
3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings 191. 
Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996
by:
Frederick Allen
4.10 avg rating — 86 ratings 
193. 
From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages
by:
Michael Adams
3.67 avg rating — 183 ratings 195. 
Internet Inventors (Cornerstones of Freedom: Third Series)
by:
Nel Yomtov
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 195. 
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
by:
Richard Rhodes
3.17 avg rating — 3,305 ratings 
197. 
The Creative Process: Reflections on Invention in the Arts and Sciences 3.72 avg rating — 133 ratings
199. 
Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
by:
James Holland
4.33 avg rating — 1,438 ratings