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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 39,692 ratings
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Educated
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4.47 avg rating — 1,828,354 ratings
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
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4.34 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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4.34 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
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3.99 avg rating — 28,537 ratings
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
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4.05 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
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3.73 avg rating — 13,113 ratings
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These Truths: A History of the United States
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4.40 avg rating — 13,008 ratings
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
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4.04 avg rating — 6,733 ratings
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The Little Book of Feminist Saints
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4.10 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
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4.14 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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3.64 avg rating — 7,119 ratings
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The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
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3.80 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
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West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
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3.42 avg rating — 630 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 160,785 ratings
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
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3.52 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
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4.19 avg rating — 1,140 ratings
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Reporter: A Memoir
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4.13 avg rating — 1,766 ratings
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Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
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4.13 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope: Kerry Kennedy in Conversation with Heads of State, Business Leaders, Influencers, and Activists about Her Father's Impact on Their Lives
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4.18 avg rating — 238 ratings
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The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
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3.66 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Heart Berries
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3.82 avg rating — 29,884 ratings
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FLIGHT
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4.20 avg rating — 553 ratings
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
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4.03 avg rating — 4,103 ratings
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The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age
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4.03 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
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4.46 avg rating — 7,405 ratings
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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
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4.20 avg rating — 3,008 ratings
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
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3.35 avg rating — 8,191 ratings
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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
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4.31 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II
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4.14 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
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4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
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4.56 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
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Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
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3.78 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Good Mothers: The Story of the Three Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia
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4.11 avg rating — 1,470 ratings
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
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3.42 avg rating — 1,522 ratings
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Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
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3.74 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
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The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
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Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire
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A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign Relations
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Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
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Elsa Lanchester, Herself
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That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh
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The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
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4.08 avg rating — 2,502 ratings
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The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
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An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business
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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall–and Those Fighting to Reverse It
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
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Full Battle Rattle: My Story as the Longest-Serving Special Forces A-Team Soldier in American History
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Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained
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The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
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4.34 avg rating — 1,935 ratings
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
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4.10 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee's Book and America's Iconic Film Mean to Us Today
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
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Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
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Thomas Cromwell: A Life
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
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The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables
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The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
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Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957
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4.14 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
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4.09 avg rating — 15,372 ratings
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
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The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
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3.42 avg rating — 7,580 ratings
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Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
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Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
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The Photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor: Artist and Lover
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
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The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder
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Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights and Other Appreciations
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Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
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Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
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Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
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Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story
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Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood
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The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
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The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology Book 75)
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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
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A Better Me: The Official Autobiography
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Evelyn Waugh's Oxford
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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