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Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
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4.17 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 241,007 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 806,794 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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4.01 avg rating — 37,274 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 56,417 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 — 76,507 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 — 72,679 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.86 avg rating — 60,373 ratings
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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4.38 avg rating — 20,864 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 60,218 ratings
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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3.79 avg rating — 72,888 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,808 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 — 121,792 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,968 ratings
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
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3.82 avg rating — 9,281 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.22 avg rating — 108,968 ratings
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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3.82 avg rating — 11,152 ratings
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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 — 40,680 ratings
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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3.93 avg rating — 5,023 ratings
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
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3.84 avg rating — 29,102 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 459,026 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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4.32 avg rating — 51,424 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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4.51 avg rating — 174,326 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 — 2,632 ratings
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
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4.09 avg rating — 23,798 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 124,591 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,211 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,397 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,799 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 761,101 ratings
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Educated
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4.46 avg rating — 1,870,542 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.94 avg rating — 23,510 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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4.23 avg rating — 14,090 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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3.73 avg rating — 10,680 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 446,769 ratings
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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4.39 avg rating — 94,270 ratings
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
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3.77 avg rating — 8,545 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.60 avg rating — 3,540 ratings
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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4.23 avg rating — 1,839 ratings
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Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
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3.70 avg rating — 2,013 ratings
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Last Chance to See
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4.32 avg rating — 26,154 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.87 avg rating — 35,304 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 72,007 ratings
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Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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3.62 avg rating — 1,902 ratings
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
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4.29 avg rating — 19,330 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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3.67 avg rating — 1,901 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 — 121,966 ratings
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
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3.76 avg rating — 11,266 ratings
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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3.97 avg rating — 6,108 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 476,157 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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4.17 avg rating — 9,958 ratings
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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3.95 avg rating — 61,669 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.07 avg rating — 89,415 ratings
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
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4.32 avg rating — 48,384 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 — 56,373 ratings
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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4.02 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.07 avg rating — 84,277 ratings
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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4.02 avg rating — 10,685 ratings
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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4.15 avg rating — 61,627 ratings
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
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4.21 avg rating — 16,692 ratings
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Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames
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4.14 avg rating — 5,591 ratings
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The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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3.91 avg rating — 7,398 ratings
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
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4.19 avg rating — 9,605 ratings
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Other Minds
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3.88 avg rating — 28,088 ratings
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On Trails: An Exploration
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3.95 avg rating — 8,965 ratings
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Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike
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4.08 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
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4.30 avg rating — 2,936 ratings
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The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
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3.88 avg rating — 22,434 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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3.76 avg rating — 30,386 ratings
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
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3.53 avg rating — 257 ratings
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You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger
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4.20 avg rating — 514 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
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4.18 avg rating — 3,694 ratings
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Eastern Curlew
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4.30 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
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4.12 avg rating — 5,674 ratings
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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man
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3.82 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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4.15 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
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4.13 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
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3.77 avg rating — 2,759 ratings
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Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
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3.82 avg rating — 6,164 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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4.07 avg rating — 119,585 ratings
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The Tulip
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3.38 avg rating — 421 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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4.02 avg rating — 21,609 ratings
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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4.06 avg rating — 9,930 ratings
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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
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3.89 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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3.86 avg rating — 6,951 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
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4.14 avg rating — 18,401 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 117,571 ratings
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Granuaile: Sea Queen of Ireland
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3.50 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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4.50 avg rating — 21,824 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 869,222 ratings
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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3.66 avg rating — 7,782 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 187,100 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 20,421 ratings
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
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3.31 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
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3.90 avg rating — 802 ratings
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All You Can Ever Know
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3.85 avg rating — 26,505 ratings
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Bowery Mission: Grit and Grace on Manhattan’s Oldest Street
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4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses
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4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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