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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
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4.38 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
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3.92 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 467,664 ratings
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
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4.07 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 22,203 ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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4.46 avg rating — 24,413 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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4.09 avg rating — 70,673 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 57,242 ratings
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
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4.61 avg rating — 19,565 ratings
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La Serenissima: The Story of Venice
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3.90 avg rating — 78 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 — 77,508 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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4.51 avg rating — 31,381 ratings
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Passionate Minds
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4.10 avg rating — 1,144 ratings
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
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3.98 avg rating — 8,490 ratings
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The Philosophers' Library: Books That Shaped the World
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4.14 avg rating — 28 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 — 774,871 ratings
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Cities that Shaped the Ancient World
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3.50 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
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4.08 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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Against Empire
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4.43 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
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4.49 avg rating — 38,146 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 — 71,800 ratings
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome
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4.31 avg rating — 2,249 ratings
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Handel In London
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3.77 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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4.17 avg rating — 228,855 ratings
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
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4.41 avg rating — 10,817 ratings
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Southeast Asia: An Introductory History
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3.66 avg rating — 514 ratings
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The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 2,328 ratings
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Revolutionary Suicide
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4.49 avg rating — 7,526 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
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3.78 avg rating — 4,451 ratings
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The Basque History of the World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,741 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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4.23 avg rating — 25,318 ratings
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Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
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3.86 avg rating — 769 ratings
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Singled Out
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3.77 avg rating — 911 ratings
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Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It
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4.30 avg rating — 472 ratings
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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
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4.14 avg rating — 3,317 ratings
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The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
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4.20 avg rating — 2,096 ratings
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
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4.08 avg rating — 4,449 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 76,153 ratings
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Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England
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3.95 avg rating — 514 ratings
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A History of America in Ten Strikes
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3.96 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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The Story of Art
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3.96 avg rating — 474,206 ratings
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Tax the Rich!: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer
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4.08 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
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4.08 avg rating — 5,959 ratings
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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4.49 avg rating — 432 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.30 avg rating — 55,538 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.81 avg rating — 14,279 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.09 avg rating — 271,380 ratings
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
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3.79 avg rating — 2,949 ratings
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Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine
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4.04 avg rating — 315 ratings
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The Housekeeper's Tale - The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
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3.91 avg rating — 845 ratings
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The Message
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4.49 avg rating — 44,885 ratings
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