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Grant
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4.50 avg rating — 44,398 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 117,748 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 808,595 ratings
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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
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3.82 avg rating — 4,256 ratings
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
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3.77 avg rating — 10,508 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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4.04 avg rating — 8,580 ratings
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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
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4.13 avg rating — 657 ratings
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
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3.77 avg rating — 3,412 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
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3.99 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
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3.52 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
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3.23 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
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4.06 avg rating — 4,882 ratings
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Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times
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4.12 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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3.83 avg rating — 10,650 ratings
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
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4.25 avg rating — 7,787 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 98,834 ratings
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
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3.83 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 114,166 ratings
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Just Kids
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4.21 avg rating — 358,067 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
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4.09 avg rating — 5,863 ratings
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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
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3.46 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse
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3.31 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.24 avg rating — 86,002 ratings
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
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3.54 avg rating — 5,034 ratings
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
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3.98 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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3.89 avg rating — 8,002 ratings
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
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3.77 avg rating — 785 ratings
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Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
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3.89 avg rating — 24,526 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 57,479 ratings
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My European Family: The First 54,000 Years
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3.85 avg rating — 1,869 ratings
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March: Book Two (March, #2)
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4.48 avg rating — 29,212 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.02 avg rating — 37,380 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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3.75 avg rating — 1,852 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 — 450,505 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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4.01 avg rating — 72,311 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,921 ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 53,411 ratings
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Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
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4.37 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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After Kathy Acker: A Biography
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3.90 avg rating — 670 ratings
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Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
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4.16 avg rating — 3,884 ratings
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To My Best Girl: Courage, Honor, and Love in the Civil War: The Inspiring Life Stories of Rufus Dawes and Mary Gates
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4.53 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
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4.05 avg rating — 715 ratings
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A New Literary History of Modern China
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4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's Favourite Wife
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3.23 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Feynman
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3.81 avg rating — 7,096 ratings
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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
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3.81 avg rating — 23,280 ratings
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War
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4.05 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
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4.23 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
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3.74 avg rating — 3,689 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.94 avg rating — 20,686 ratings
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I Am the Immaculate Conception: The Story of Bernadette of Lourdes (Marian Apparition Series)
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4.69 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
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4.01 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
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The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
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3.53 avg rating — 3,253 ratings
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The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
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3.82 avg rating — 2,054 ratings
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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
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4.23 avg rating — 4,606 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
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4.13 avg rating — 6,693 ratings
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor
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4.37 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen
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3.93 avg rating — 332 ratings
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The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement
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4.24 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Patrick O’Brian: A Very Private Life
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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3.76 avg rating — 17,226 ratings
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Black and British: A Forgotten History
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4.60 avg rating — 4,504 ratings
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
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3.44 avg rating — 4,722 ratings
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
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4.04 avg rating — 23,621 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.06 avg rating — 82,486 ratings
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John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Lulu
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4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
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4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Wakool Crossing: a modern-day investigation into the mysterious death of a young woman in 1916
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3.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
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4.19 avg rating — 75,321 ratings
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
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4.07 avg rating — 6,569 ratings
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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
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3.65 avg rating — 988 ratings
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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
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3.89 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
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3.65 avg rating — 20,761 ratings
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Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
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4.11 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
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4.16 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
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Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
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3.97 avg rating — 5,191 ratings
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London's Labyrinth: The World Beneath the City's Streets
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3.86 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
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4.11 avg rating — 5,248 ratings
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America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation
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3.92 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
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4.14 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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3.98 avg rating — 978 ratings
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The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement
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4.30 avg rating — 782 ratings
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Queen Bees
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3.63 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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3.41 avg rating — 4,430 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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4.45 avg rating — 5,623 ratings
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Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM
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3.95 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Emperors: How Europe's Greatest Rulers Were Destroyed by World War I
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4.10 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Jim Henson: The Guy Who Played with Puppets
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3.84 avg rating — 399 ratings
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The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
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3.93 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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4.15 avg rating — 10,274 ratings
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
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3.47 avg rating — 704 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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Jane Austen's England
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3.83 avg rating — 1,848 ratings
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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
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3.94 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
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4.13 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War
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3.90 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
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3.99 avg rating — 5,117 ratings
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The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
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4.38 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
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3.84 avg rating — 29,145 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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3.86 avg rating — 11,105 ratings
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