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1	Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton 3.82 avg rating — 66 ratings score: 181, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writings on Aboriginal Contemporary Art by Ian L. McLean (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 180, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Death in Perugia: The Definitive Account of the Meredith Kercher Case from her Murder to the Acquittal of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox by John Follain 3.78 avg rating — 888 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Hitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens 4.02 avg rating — 22,751 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate by Helen Prejean 4.15 avg rating — 9,368 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Fire & Song: The Story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition by Anna Lanyon 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them by Mary Cappello 2.98 avg rating — 107 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 20,941 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going by George Friedman (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 2,494 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt 3.88 avg rating — 36,252 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others by Robert Trivers 3.63 avg rating — 1,078 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	My Brother's Eyes: The True Story of Surviving 16 Years in a Destructive Cult by John Stephen Ayliffe 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	A Pack of Bloody Animals: The Walsh Street Murders Revisited by John Kerr 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Mawson's forgotten men: the 1911-1913 Antarctic diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson by Charles Turnbull Harrisson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin 3.97 avg rating — 570 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Body Culture: Max Dupain, Photography and Australian Culture, 1919-1939 by Isobel Crombie 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel 3.66 avg rating — 2,163 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	On Utøya: Anders Breivik, Right Terror, Racism and Europe by Tad Tietze (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific by Tim Flannery 3.71 avg rating — 295 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid 4.17 avg rating — 2,568 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars by Ethan Pollock 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona Carnarvon 3.65 avg rating — 21,044 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott 3.92 avg rating — 2,772 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Death by Elegy by Dick Gross really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck – And Could Now Throw It All Away by Peter Hartcher 3.91 avg rating — 70 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das 3.66 avg rating — 435 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Come the Revolution: A Memoir by Alex Mitchell 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Europe @ 2.4km/h by Ken Haley 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work by Gerry Stoker 3.33 avg rating — 46 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to Tibet by Kate Teltscher 3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	An Inconvenient Youth by Fiona Forde 3.20 avg rating — 69 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid by R.W. Johnson 3.86 avg rating — 109 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent by Hal Vaughan 3.30 avg rating — 2,922 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Honey Money by Catherine Hakim 3.38 avg rating — 460 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law by Deborah L. Rhode 3.31 avg rating — 177 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire by Sugata Bose 4.20 avg rating — 463 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Everybody Loves a Good Drought by Palagummi Sainath 4.34 avg rating — 3,349 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness by Elizabeth Farrelly (Goodreads Author) 3.34 avg rating — 127 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society by Daniel A. Bell 3.38 avg rating — 77 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	New Legend: A Story of Law and Culture and the Fight for Self Determination in the Kimberley by Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Center 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba by Stephen Tankel 3.87 avg rating — 47 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands by Christina Lamb 4.20 avg rating — 284 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Heysen to Heysen: Selected Letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen by Hans Heysen 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Australian Poetry Since 1788 by Geoffrey Lehmann (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust 4.04 avg rating — 7,604 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwarth 4.07 avg rating — 1,615 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Isaac Newton's Temple of Solomon and his Reconstruction of Sacred Architecture by Tessa Morrison it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Order Order!: The Rise and Fall of Political Thinking by Ben Wright 3.73 avg rating — 89 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars