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The Private Lives of the Impressionists
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At Home in Two Worlds : Essays on Goa
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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To Catch a Tartar: Notes from the Caucasus
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3.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
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4.10 avg rating — 4,912 ratings
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
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4.35 avg rating — 3,154 ratings
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Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV
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3.92 avg rating — 9,927 ratings
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Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York
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3.62 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
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3.91 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
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4.47 avg rating — 9,137 ratings
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Health and Safety: A Breakdown
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3.50 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
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3.58 avg rating — 666 ratings
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The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
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4.32 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
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3.95 avg rating — 1,853 ratings
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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
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3.87 avg rating — 1,181 ratings
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
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4.28 avg rating — 2,885 ratings
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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4.46 avg rating — 20,173 ratings
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A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
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3.91 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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4.22 avg rating — 1,496 ratings
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The Death of the Banker: The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor
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3.51 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
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The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
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4.06 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
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3.96 avg rating — 12,629 ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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4.15 avg rating — 37,477 ratings
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Grant
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4.50 avg rating — 43,856 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 82,599 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
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4.22 avg rating — 199,885 ratings
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Mark Twain
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4.20 avg rating — 5,292 ratings
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Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West
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4.19 avg rating — 574 ratings
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The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
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3.63 avg rating — 1,823 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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3.98 avg rating — 116,641 ratings
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The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore
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4.28 avg rating — 2,134 ratings
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The Burden of Democracy
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4.11 avg rating — 378 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
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4.61 avg rating — 8,637 ratings
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Following Fish: Travels around the Indian Coast
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3.95 avg rating — 1,131 ratings
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India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
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4.09 avg rating — 6,309 ratings
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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4.51 avg rating — 17,916 ratings
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The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
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3.38 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Shackleton
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4.31 avg rating — 2,560 ratings
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New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award (The Profile History of the Ancient World Series)
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3.52 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
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4.37 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
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Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I
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4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
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3.92 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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3.86 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
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3.86 avg rating — 1,305 ratings
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
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3.66 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History
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3.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
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4.01 avg rating — 910 ratings
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
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4.04 avg rating — 470 ratings
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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
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4.03 avg rating — 20,092 ratings
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
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4.13 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
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3.92 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
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3.76 avg rating — 1,233 ratings
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Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
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4.40 avg rating — 1,953 ratings
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Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
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4.16 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Budapest: Between East and West
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4.30 avg rating — 774 ratings
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Empires of the Normans: Conquerors of Europe
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3.72 avg rating — 521 ratings
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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3.84 avg rating — 16,731 ratings
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The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe
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3.46 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Jesuits: A History
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3.92 avg rating — 65 ratings
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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4.12 avg rating — 9,497 ratings
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
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4.33 avg rating — 3,356 ratings
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Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania
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4.43 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
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4.38 avg rating — 719 ratings
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
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4.26 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224–651
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3.58 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
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4.20 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
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4.45 avg rating — 9,952 ratings
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
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3.78 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
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4.18 avg rating — 2,659 ratings
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The Story of Russia
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4.23 avg rating — 3,730 ratings
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
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3.89 avg rating — 733 ratings
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
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4.41 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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4.24 avg rating — 24,369 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 — 21,095 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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4.36 avg rating — 16,128 ratings
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Korea: The Impossible Country
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4.03 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
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3.88 avg rating — 2,255 ratings
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Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
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4.18 avg rating — 3,258 ratings
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The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
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3.72 avg rating — 1,821 ratings
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A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
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3.73 avg rating — 3,042 ratings
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The Emperor Charlemagne
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3.98 avg rating — 637 ratings
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune
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4.06 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
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3.90 avg rating — 8,277 ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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4.23 avg rating — 27,231 ratings
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The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
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3.95 avg rating — 3,464 ratings
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
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3.95 avg rating — 4,709 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
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4.25 avg rating — 15,317 ratings
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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4.18 avg rating — 6,574 ratings
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The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far
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4.13 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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4.05 avg rating — 43,122 ratings
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Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
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4.41 avg rating — 6,884 ratings
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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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4.24 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
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4.26 avg rating — 7,179 ratings
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
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4.06 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
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4.15 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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4.21 avg rating — 26,787 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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4.06 avg rating — 34,518 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 30,693 ratings
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Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras
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4.17 avg rating — 220 ratings
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India Moving: A History of Migration
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3.93 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Whole Numbers and Half Truths
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4.22 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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