I know search was broken for a bit yesterday, and unfortunately it’s still degraded after patches. They are rate limiting us likely due to high traffic after they created a new security policy in May. Apologies for disruption. In retrospect, making our own book DB last month was very timely! Always trust intuition. We will soon move to our own search engine built on our new book database. Hopefully it will blow Openlibrary's search engine out of the water. We still depend on their external APIs for search and covers, both will be proprietary soon. 👷‍♀️

the list feature is so goated, I have already gotten many good recs

Halfway through reading The Great Influenza and coming to terms with the fact that I'm a realistic romantic sucker for essentially nonfiction fairy tales. Where a team of people come together to slay a dragon whether that be developing an antibiotic, organ transplantation, or some other intractable problem, sometimes with some abstract cost of metaphorical limbs lost. Doesn't have to be medical, stuff like The Right Stuff, Apollo 8 and Endurance counts too. What other nonfiction narrative novels do you guys recommend below?