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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 801,665 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 726,175 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,323 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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4.07 avg rating — 121,562 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 755,567 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 72,063 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 444,102 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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4.39 avg rating — 360,149 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,410 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 565,304 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 160,917 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
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3.92 avg rating — 119,465 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,118 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,182 ratings
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People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
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3.79 avg rating — 23,306 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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4.49 avg rating — 801,435 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 118,420 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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4.22 avg rating — 108,052 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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4.23 avg rating — 29,776 ratings
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Get Bail, Leave Jail: America’s Guide to Hiring a Bondsman, Navigating Bail Bonds, and Getting out of Custody before Trial
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4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 121,210 ratings
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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 144,064 ratings
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Thunderstruck
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3.78 avg rating — 56,358 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,251 ratings
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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4.19 avg rating — 78,715 ratings
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
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4.11 avg rating — 263,141 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 56,074 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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3.96 avg rating — 30,413 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 994,826 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 110,055 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 121,631 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
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4.10 avg rating — 54,617 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,703 ratings
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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4.53 avg rating — 11,720 ratings
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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3.93 avg rating — 65,737 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 118,846 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 28,748 ratings
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Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End (The Midwife Trilogy Book 3)
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4.30 avg rating — 19,214 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.23 avg rating — 84,296 ratings
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Assassination Vacation
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3.93 avg rating — 47,231 ratings
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The Orchid Thief
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3.66 avg rating — 21,848 ratings
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
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4.01 avg rating — 5,158 ratings
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The Faraway Nearby
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4.20 avg rating — 7,679 ratings
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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4.72 avg rating — 44,189 ratings
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Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
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4.17 avg rating — 27,251 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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4.30 avg rating — 233,129 ratings
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Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
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3.89 avg rating — 24,370 ratings
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
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3.72 avg rating — 8,183 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.21 avg rating — 77,020 ratings
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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3.70 avg rating — 5,150 ratings
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
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4.11 avg rating — 17,415 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 17,075 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,863 ratings
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Unfamiliar Fishes
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3.64 avg rating — 15,471 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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3.86 avg rating — 8,192 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner
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4.27 avg rating — 27,607 ratings
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
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4.14 avg rating — 1,966 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.20 avg rating — 88,930 ratings
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The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
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4.15 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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3.67 avg rating — 1,893 ratings
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
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3.74 avg rating — 10,428 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 170,542 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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4.20 avg rating — 40,130 ratings
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
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3.82 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
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4.43 avg rating — 14,549 ratings
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Burke - Now and Then
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream
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3.67 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 260,561 ratings
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No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
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3.84 avg rating — 992 ratings
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
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4.04 avg rating — 4,389 ratings
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
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4.35 avg rating — 4,199 ratings
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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
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4.05 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
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4.13 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
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3.80 avg rating — 39,784 ratings
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Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
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4.33 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
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3.75 avg rating — 581 ratings
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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam
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4.14 avg rating — 2,496 ratings
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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3.98 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
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Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
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4.03 avg rating — 875 ratings
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CONDITION CRITICAL: The Story of a Nurse Continues
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4.29 avg rating — 589 ratings
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The Discovery of the Titanic
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4.30 avg rating — 1,990 ratings
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The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World
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3.77 avg rating — 3,622 ratings
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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
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4.05 avg rating — 6,200 ratings
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Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
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3.82 avg rating — 1,376 ratings
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
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3.79 avg rating — 22,150 ratings
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The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery
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4.02 avg rating — 610 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
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3.72 avg rating — 205,880 ratings
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
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4.03 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
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How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
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3.48 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments
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4.20 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 365,177 ratings
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The Fate of the Romanovs
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4.09 avg rating — 900 ratings
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The TIGER Protocol: An Integrative, 5-Step Program to Treat and Heal Your Autoimmunity
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4.17 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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3.90 avg rating — 6,405 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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3.73 avg rating — 31,853 ratings
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Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital
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3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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3.90 avg rating — 20,774 ratings
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Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
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4.21 avg rating — 246 ratings
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A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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