A Short History of the World in 50 Failures

Ben Gazur

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A fascinating and entertaining alternative history of the world told through fifty of the greatest failures, catastrophes and missed opportunities ever to occur.

Hidden Potential
You Dreamed of Empires
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
All or Nothing
A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker
Carbon
Who Is Government?
Question 7
Nemesis
Orbital
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
Five Broken Blades
Good Girl
Antiboy
The Empusium
Universality
The Last Murder at the End of the World
Stalking the Atomic City
What the River Knows
Iron & Embers
How the Word Is Passed
Glucose Goddess Method
Stone Blind
Thousand Heartbeats
Klara and the Sun
A Touch of Ruin
Maid
Verity
Braiding Sweetgrass
Red Roulette
The Wager
Ghosts
Bullet That Missed
Shadow of the Gods
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
First to Die at the End
Practical Guide to Conquering the World
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls
Own Your Space
Fahrenheit 451
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four )
It Ends With Us
Brave New World
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Lord of the Flies
Siddhartha
Meditations
The Midnight Library
Dune
Guns, Germs, and Steel
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Thursday Murder Club
The Psychology of Money
The Little Prince
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Shoe Dog
The Song of Achilles
Girl in Pieces
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 21
Vagabond (Vizbig Edition), Vol. 1
Given, Vol. 8
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1
Innocent Omnibus Volume 1
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2
H.P. Lovecraft's the Call of Cthulhu (Manga)
Gyo (2-In-1 Deluxe Edition)
Shangri-La Frontier 1
My Cat Is Such a Weirdo Vol. 4
Solo Leveling, Vol. 9 (Comic)
Berserk Deluxe Volume 14
Pupposites Attract 1
Cthulhu Cat
Spy X Family, Vol. 12
Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 1-2
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 2
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
One Piece (Omnibus Edition), Vol. 1
Red Rising
Navola
Monstress Volume 4
Monstress Volume 5
Monstress, Volume 6
Monstress, Volume 7
Such Charming Liars
The Final Gambit
The Hawthorne Legacy
House of Flame and Shadow
Funny Story
Love Life

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Hidden Potential

Grant, Adam
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You Dreamed of Empires

Enrigue, Alvaro
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Murakami, Haruki
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€ 33.99

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All or Nothing

Wolff, Michael
hardcover
€ 26.99

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A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker

New Yorker Magazine Inc
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Carbon

Hawken, Paul
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€ 35.99

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Who Is Government?

Lewis, Michael
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Question 7

Flanagan, Richard
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Nemesis

Hurwitz, Gregg
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Orbital

Harvey, Samantha
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

Graeber, David
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Five Broken Blades

Corland, Mai
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€ 14.99

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Good Girl

Aber, Aria
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Antiboy

Hoogenkamp, Valentijn
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The Empusium

Tokarczuk, Olga
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Universality

Brown, Natasha
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The Last Murder at the End of the World

Turton, Stuart
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Stalking the Atomic City

Kamysh, Markiyan
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What the River Knows

Ibanez, Isabel
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Iron & Embers

Scheuerer, Helen
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