A big batch of non-fiction books are on sale in the US today

The Daily Deal today (29 Jan 2023) at Amazon US is 148 non-fiction titles ranging all the way from military history to biographies to mental health to cookbooks – and sadly even one conspiracy theory book. But overall, it’s a good selection, and I spotted several books I already have and have enjoyed, and a few more to try (of course 😊). And many seem to be price-matched at Kobo US as well.

Here is a link to the deal webpage at Kindle US, so you can check out all the titles for yourself.

And here are individual links to just a few (okay, a lot) that I noticed:

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, $1.99 (read it and thought it was great)
Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre, $2.99 (I’ve read and enjoyed a couple of his other books…)
Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Julia Lovell, $2.99 (I had a prof in college who wrote a book about this, which we of course had to read. It was actually pretty good, but didn’t follow on much beyond the immediate impacts of the war. So I’m debating whether the “Making of Modern China” part of this book might be interesting enough to be worth buying it…)
Buy at Kindle US | not price-matched at Kobo US, at least as of now

Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power by Susan Page, $2.99 (missed this when it was on sale before, so glad to see it on sale again…)
Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King, $2.99 (read it, loved it, have waxed poetic about it elsewhere in this blog…)
Buy at Kindle US | not price-matched at Kobo US, at least as of now

Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan, $2.99 (have recently read some other histories of the area (here, and here, and here), but not one focused on “recent” historical times, debating whether to try it)
Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, $2.99 (great book)
Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury (sounds as if it would be useful if I wrote, rather than reviewed, murder mysteries…)
Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine, $2.99 (seems like another one for would-be mystery writers)
Buy at Kindle US | not price-matched at Kobo US, at least as of now

The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes, $2.99 (the same Natalie Haynes of A Thousand Ships, The Children of Jocasta, etc…)
Buy at Kindle US | not price-matched at Kobo US, at least as of now

Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot (‘nough said), $1.99
Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Son John Julius Norwich, 1939–1952 by Diana Cooper, $2.99 (I’ve read and enjoyed several of Norwich’s histories, but am debating whether that makes me want to read this enough to buy it…)
Buy at Kindle US | not price-matched at Kobo US, at least as of now

And related to the above, but not part of the sale (semi-long-term at $2.99):
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by John Julius Norwich
Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

Whew! And there are lots more too…just check out the Deal page from the first link, way up above…

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