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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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4.26 avg rating — 10,880 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 94,993 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,067 ratings
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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4.28 avg rating — 39,911 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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4.04 avg rating — 44,977 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.06 avg rating — 83,546 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 117,041 ratings
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Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World
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4.31 avg rating — 784 ratings
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People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
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3.79 avg rating — 23,312 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.24 avg rating — 13,984 ratings
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Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
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4.19 avg rating — 1,975 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 — 110,156 ratings
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A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story
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3.44 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.90 avg rating — 219,434 ratings
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
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3.98 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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4.14 avg rating — 443,622 ratings
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
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4.39 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
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Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas
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4.09 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Parkland
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4.22 avg rating — 1,848 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 153,840 ratings
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
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4.14 avg rating — 111,661 ratings
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Fatal Vision
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4.12 avg rating — 24,743 ratings
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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3.87 avg rating — 12,266 ratings
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The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
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4.22 avg rating — 9,405 ratings
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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3.58 avg rating — 8,766 ratings
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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
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3.86 avg rating — 7,387 ratings
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
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3.79 avg rating — 16,668 ratings
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
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3.61 avg rating — 26,752 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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4.31 avg rating — 27,127 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 566,020 ratings
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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
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3.94 avg rating — 6,280 ratings
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Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
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4.22 avg rating — 11,429 ratings
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
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3.82 avg rating — 12,045 ratings
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
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4.24 avg rating — 1,134 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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4.36 avg rating — 37,363 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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3.97 avg rating — 57,666 ratings
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Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China
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4.21 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
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3.93 avg rating — 9,600 ratings
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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
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3.93 avg rating — 22,244 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 99,254 ratings
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda
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4.13 avg rating — 845 ratings
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Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds
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3.73 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
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