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Read ‘Til You Drop is a site established by an avid book reader and designed to share details about the books that have actually been read to encourage others to want to pick-up the book to read. The list of book titles within this site contain books read since late 2011. The list continues to grow!

Most of the books are non-fiction however, there are several good fiction titles listed as well. The site is designed to allow users to review a selected book title, along with a summary of the book, to determine if interested in subject outlined in the book.

Additionally, the site is designed to act as a virtual book club in order for book readers to comment and provide thoughts of the book, its subject, author, content, characters, etc.

Please feel free to browse through the list, learn a little more about the book and if you read the book, come back and write a review or summary to share your thoughts and comments about the book to other potential readers to help encourage continued reading and learning. Happy Reading!

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The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets

A definitive, headline-making exposé of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out the l...More

Publish: December 2, 2025

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The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
★★★★★★★★★★

In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #...More

Publish: April 29, 2025

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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
★★★★★★★★★★

In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months o...More

Publish: May 14, 2019

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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
★★★★★★★★★★

The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale o...More

Publish: May 7, 2024

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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
★★★★★★★★★★

Beginning his epic history in the early 1600s, Eric Jay Dolin traces the dramatic rise and fall of t...More

Publish: July 12, 2010

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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
★★★★★★★★★★

Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America&#...More

Publish: April 18, 2016

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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
★★★★★★★★★★

Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic an...More

Publish: September 18, 2018

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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
★★★★★★★★★★

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet mi...More

Publish: May 31, 2022

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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
★★★★★★★★★★

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” proclaimed Herman Melville, ...More

Publish: July 2, 2007 by

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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
★★★★★★★★★★

With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through i...More

Publish: August 4, 2020

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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
★★★★★★★★★★

An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The Wo...More

Publish: February 23, 2016

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
★★★★★★★★★★

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage o...More

Publish: April 9, 2024

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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
★★★★★★★★★★

A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle...More

Publish: August 7, 2018

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Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil’s Deal
★★★★★★★★★★

James “Whitey” Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because o...More

Publish: August 4, 2015

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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
★★★★★★★★★★

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmamen...More

Publish: April 13, 2021

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Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron
★★★★★★★★★★

Power Failure is the electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the collapse of Enron, the high-flying ...More

Publish: March 25, 2003

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Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery
★★★★★★★★★★

On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a river...More

Publish: April 2, 2024

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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
★★★★★★★★★★

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centu...More

Publish: October 15, 2024

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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
★★★★★★★★★★

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of...More

Publish: February 3, 2015

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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
★★★★★★★★★★

Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world...More

Publish: June 23, 2020

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Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor
★★★★★★★★★★

A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex”—the myriad businesses that pr...More

Publish: May 28, 2024

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Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
★★★★★★★★★★

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, expos...More

Publish: February 20, 2024

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
★★★★★★★★★★

On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The coun...More

Publish: April 30, 2024

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The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
★★★★★★★★★★

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new accoun...More

Publish: September 14, 2021

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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
★★★★★★★★★★

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human h...More

Publish: April 2, 2024

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The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
★★★★★★★★★★

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the law...More

Publish: January 23, 2024

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William Henry Harrison
★★★★★★★★★★

The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election cam...More

Publish: January 17, 2012

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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
★★★★★★★★★★

The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, i...More

Publish: January 1, 2005

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True Story of Friendship Stronger Than War
★★★★★★★★★★

In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seam...More

Publish: May 2, 2017

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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
★★★★★★★★★★

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the subur...More

Publish: June 15, 1999

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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
★★★★★★★★★★

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came ...More

Publish: December 6, 2022

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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
★★★★★★★★★★

In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by cov...More

Publish: April 27, 2021

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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
★★★★★★★★★★

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the ma...More

Publish: October 25, 2022

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
★★★★★★★★★★

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of...More

Publish: April 18, 2023

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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
★★★★★★★★★★

The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decorat...More

Publish: March 22, 2022

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Valley Forge
★★★★★★★★★★

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return wi...More

Publish: October 2, 2018

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The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
★★★★★★★★★★

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin’s The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalio...More

Publish: November 1, 2022

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In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
★★★★★★★★★★

A harrowing, adrenaline-charged account of America’s worst naval disaster—and of the heroism...More

Publish: January 1, 2001

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The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
★★★★★★★★★★

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer–America’s first–who sta...More

Publish: April 5, 2016

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
★★★★★★★★★★

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining oper...More

Publish: January 31, 2023

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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier
★★★★★★★★★★

The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America&#82...More

Publish: April 20, 2021

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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
★★★★★★★★★★

The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today th...More

Publish: April 24, 2018

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
★★★★★★★★★★

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on origin...More

Publish: February 12, 2019

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
★★★★★★★★★★

The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger The Curies’ ne...More

Publish: May 2, 2017

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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
★★★★★★★★★★

“‘It doesn’t get better.’ To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential tru...More

Publish: May 3, 2016

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
★★★★★★★★★★

Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with...More

Publish: February 11, 2003

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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
★★★★★★★★★★

If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted t...More

Publish: August 15, 2011

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The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History
★★★★★★★★★★

In late February of 1968, a Russian submarine, holding a battery of three ballistic missiles with en...More

Publish: September 5, 2017

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Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
★★★★★★★★★★

Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the live...More

Publish: August 6, 2019

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Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
★★★★★★★★★★

Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Fo...More

Publish: April 20, 2010

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
★★★★★★★★★★

“With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a wh...More

Publish: December 2001

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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviator duo: Lieutenant Tom ...More

Publish: December 2015

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Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
★★★★★★★★★★

The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless tunnel hundreds of feet under Mas...More

Publish: February 2014

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