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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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4.37 avg rating — 159,534 ratings
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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4.17 avg rating — 201,533 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.54 avg rating — 133,423 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 55,978 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 — 13,947 ratings
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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3.94 avg rating — 10,886 ratings
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
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4.20 avg rating — 8,046 ratings
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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4.22 avg rating — 5,010 ratings
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Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth
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4.24 avg rating — 869 ratings
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Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
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3.88 avg rating — 4,229 ratings
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
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4.67 avg rating — 7,562 ratings
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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4.01 avg rating — 7,715 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 109,615 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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4.33 avg rating — 23,478 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,770 ratings
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The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
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3.67 avg rating — 8,323 ratings
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Into Thin Air
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4.26 avg rating — 563,014 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.88 avg rating — 11,540 ratings
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
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4.25 avg rating — 37,618 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.37 avg rating — 63,846 ratings
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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4.40 avg rating — 280,257 ratings
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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
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4.10 avg rating — 1,537 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,415 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 61,393 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 — 71,836 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 160,406 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 68,245 ratings
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Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con
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4.06 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
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4.04 avg rating — 3,229 ratings
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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4.22 avg rating — 27,743 ratings
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
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4.40 avg rating — 2,029 ratings
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The Great Halifax Explosion
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4.19 avg rating — 4,050 ratings
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