Task 19 #ReadHarder 2019
4. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,372 ratings 
7. 
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
by:
Michael Finkel
3.90 avg rating — 82,159 ratings 
10. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,044 ratings
12. 
The Bullies of Wall Street: This Is How Greed Messed Up Our Economy
by:
Sheila Bair
3.48 avg rating — 98 ratings 
14. 
Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler
by:
Jessica Speart
3.62 avg rating — 557 ratings 
16. 
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession 3.44 avg rating — 13,713 ratings
19. 
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
by:
Lee Israel
3.24 avg rating — 4,304 ratings 20. 
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by:
John Vaillant
4.12 avg rating — 12,029 ratings 
22. 
Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records
by:
Adam Tanner
3.77 avg rating — 75 ratings 23. 
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by:
Monica Hesse
3.79 avg rating — 16,446 ratings 24. 
Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
by:
David Dayen
4.22 avg rating — 760 ratings 24. 
The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers
by:
Noah Charney
3.95 avg rating — 699 ratings 26. 
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
by:
Dean Jobb
3.87 avg rating — 2,200 ratings 27. 
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.99 avg rating — 5,000 ratings 28. 
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
by:
Frank Wynne
3.90 avg rating — 1,591 ratings 29. 
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
by:
Kevin Poulsen
3.97 avg rating — 8,012 ratings 29. 
The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets 3.79 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
29. 
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.40 avg rating — 8,595 ratings 
35. 
The Taking of the Stone of Destiny: The Exciting True Story of How the Stone of Scone Was Returned to Scotland
by:
Ian R. Hamilton
4.22 avg rating — 268 ratings 35. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,514 ratings 37. 
The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
by:
Michael Blanding
3.64 avg rating — 3,670 ratings 38. 
Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love 3.81 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
39. 
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
by:
Annie Spence
3.76 avg rating — 11,058 ratings 
41. 
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
by:
Patricia Miller
4.02 avg rating — 705 ratings 41. 
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
by:
Heather Harpham
4.14 avg rating — 15,078 ratings 
44. 
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.93 avg rating — 26,413 ratings 
47. 
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
by:
Laney Salisbury
3.92 avg rating — 6,613 ratings 
49. 
50. 
Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art
by:
Joshua Knelman
3.84 avg rating — 556 ratings 51. 
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
by:
Jason Felch
4.05 avg rating — 2,116 ratings 52. 
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
by:
Anthony M. Amore
3.54 avg rating — 1,174 ratings 
54. 
Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis: A Gallery of Remarkable Art Tales
by:
Harvey Rachlin
3.28 avg rating — 178 ratings 55. 
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
by:
Paige Williams
3.58 avg rating — 2,661 ratings 56. 
The Heir of Douglas: The Scandal That Rocked Eighteenth-Century England 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
57. 
Summary of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup By John Carreyrou
by:
Concise Reading
3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings 58. 
Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal
by:
Ken Bensinger
4.07 avg rating — 1,825 ratings 59. 
Chasing Phil: The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World's Most Charming Con Man
by:
David Howard
3.82 avg rating — 405 ratings 
61. 
Man Overboard: The Counterfeit Resurrection of Phil Champagne
by:
Burl Barer
3.71 avg rating — 104 ratings 
63. 
Der gestohlene Klimt: Wie sich Maria Altmann die Goldene Adele zurückholte 4.04 avg rating — 74 ratings
64. 
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
by:
Sharon Waxman
3.95 avg rating — 1,964 ratings 65. 
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
by:
Edward Dolnick
3.88 avg rating — 4,986 ratings 66. 
Falscher, Schwindler, Scharlatane: Betrug in Forschung und Wissenschaft (Erlebnis Wissenschaft)
by:
Heinrich Zankl
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 67. 
Wissenschaft im Kreuzverhör: Spektakuläre Fälle von Galileo bis Guttenberg
by:
Heinrich Zankl
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 68. 
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures 3.83 avg rating — 10,207 ratings
69. 
The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World
by:
Nancy Jo Sales
3.14 avg rating — 6,349 ratings 70. 
The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
by:
Tom Sancton
3.51 avg rating — 2,881 ratings 71. 
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
by:
Ulrich Boser
3.69 avg rating — 7,450 ratings 
73. 
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.52 avg rating — 83,066 ratings 74. 
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
by:
Kelly Gallagher
4.29 avg rating — 6,103 ratings 75. 
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
by:
Joshua Hammer
3.49 avg rating — 12,189 ratings 76. 
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
by:
Robert M. Edsel
3.80 avg rating — 51,853 ratings 77. 
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
by:
Nick Bilton
4.41 avg rating — 50,876 ratings 78. 
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con
by:
Amy Reading
3.32 avg rating — 605 ratings 79. 
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by:
Clifford Stoll
4.28 avg rating — 15,266 ratings 80. 
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
3.93 avg rating — 1,196 ratings 81. 
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Rick Bowers
3.62 avg rating — 511 ratings 82. 
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles
by:
Paul B. Janeczko
3.37 avg rating — 401 ratings 83. 
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
by:
Karen Blumenthal
3.68 avg rating — 1,063 ratings 84. 
Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities
by:
Chris Barton
3.39 avg rating — 290 ratings 
87. 
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by:
Steve Sheinkin
4.04 avg rating — 6,581 ratings 88. 
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
by:
Cynthia Levinson
4.11 avg rating — 1,615 ratings 89. 
Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
by:
Greg Pizzoli
4.10 avg rating — 1,339 ratings 
91. 
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by:
Tom Wright
4.07 avg rating — 37,094 ratings 92. 
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
by:
Sarah Rose
3.78 avg rating — 4,227 ratings 
95. 
PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire
by:
John Wigger
4.04 avg rating — 361 ratings