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The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
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4.14 avg rating — 1,541 ratings
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The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
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4.41 avg rating — 47,943 ratings
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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
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The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today
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Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
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The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
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Apeirogon
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
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Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
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No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
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4.28 avg rating — 5,280 ratings
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Surviving Autocracy
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4.14 avg rating — 4,708 ratings
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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3.89 avg rating — 18,119 ratings
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Utopia Avenue
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Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
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4.06 avg rating — 358 ratings
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
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3.94 avg rating — 5,139 ratings
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The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
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3.86 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
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3.65 avg rating — 12,622 ratings
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Cleanness
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A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism (The Resistance #4)
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3.80 avg rating — 842 ratings
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Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America
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4.15 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Braised Pork
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
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4.23 avg rating — 2,237 ratings
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The Truants
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3.33 avg rating — 11,109 ratings
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A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
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3.83 avg rating — 1,918 ratings
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The Death of Jesus
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3.83 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
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The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945
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4.17 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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Leo Tolstoy
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4.28 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
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3.80 avg rating — 12,107 ratings
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10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
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3.59 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Uncanny Valley
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3.63 avg rating — 35,556 ratings
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Lurking: How a Person Became a User
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3.75 avg rating — 884 ratings
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The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
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4.24 avg rating — 950 ratings
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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
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Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
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Capital and Ideology
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Actress
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Hunger: The Oldest Problem
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Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils
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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
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My Dark Vanessa
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The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
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3.68 avg rating — 553 ratings
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The Fatal Eggs
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The Glass Hotel
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Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
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3.90 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
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Love After Love
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Jellyfish
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Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
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The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990
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You People
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The Bystander Effect
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The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
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3.74 avg rating — 219 ratings
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The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money and Other People Can't
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The Discomfort of Evening
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A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion
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A History of Solitude
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Conjure Women
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Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
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4.43 avg rating — 3,566 ratings
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Inventory: A Memoir
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies
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From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
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The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020
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Pomeranski
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Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery
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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
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The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
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I, John Kennedy Toole
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
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The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
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Economic Dignity
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A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
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4.01 avg rating — 539 ratings
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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
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Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
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Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
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The Margot Affair
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Darke Matter: A Novel
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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane
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3.99 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
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The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
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Miss Iceland
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The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia’s Secret Doping Empire
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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
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On Time and Water
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The Party Upstairs
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Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America
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Magdalena: River of Dreams
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