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5 best books like Hit Reply (Rocki St. Claire): What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, The Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America's Unknown Child, Mothering Sunday, Alan Turing: The Enigma, Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	0544272994

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science...

The Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America's Unknown Child

Author	David Stout
ISBN	1599212692

On February 25, 1957, the nude, badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trash-strewn woods of north Philadelphia. Posters of the “Boy in the Box” soon dotted the city and police stations nationwide—to no avail. In November 1998 the remains were exhumed for DNA analysis,...

Mothering Sunday

Author	Graham Swift
ISBN	1101947527

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life.

Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild has worked as a maid at an English country house since she was sixteen. For almost all of those years...

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Author	Andrew Hodges
ISBN	0802775802

Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. But Turing's vision went far beyond the desperate wartime struggle. Already in the 1930s he had defined the concept...

Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema

Author

Anne Helen Petersen

Hollywood gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson.

Believe it or not, America’s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi B, Kanye’s tweets, and the #metoo allegations that...