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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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4.12 avg rating — 40,033 ratings
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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4.15 avg rating — 10,423 ratings
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
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4.17 avg rating — 8,383 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 — 11,861 ratings
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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
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4.35 avg rating — 8,397 ratings
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Adolf Hitler
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4.24 avg rating — 3,804 ratings
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Green River, Running Red
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20,663 ratings
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Elon Musk
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4.32 avg rating — 77,303 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 29,136 ratings
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
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4.36 avg rating — 25,631 ratings
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Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,434 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,651 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.71 avg rating — 12,666 ratings
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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
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4.38 avg rating — 4,598 ratings
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The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
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4.22 avg rating — 9,464 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
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4.05 avg rating — 23,638 ratings
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Israel at War : Inside the Nuclear Showdown with Iran
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4.11 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
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4.20 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,452 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
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4.12 avg rating — 9,541 ratings
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The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
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4.15 avg rating — 10,316 ratings
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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4.35 avg rating — 49,647 ratings
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Commodore: A Company on the Edge
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4.21 avg rating — 966 ratings
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The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
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4.24 avg rating — 6,342 ratings
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Mao: The Unknown Story
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3.83 avg rating — 13,972 ratings
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The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
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4.04 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 461,827 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,280,659 ratings
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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
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3.99 avg rating — 5,173 ratings
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The Lady Vanishes
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3.81 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Ho Chi Minh: A Life
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4.16 avg rating — 975 ratings
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The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy
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4.16 avg rating — 26,141 ratings
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The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed
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3.44 avg rating — 17,368 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 46,474 ratings
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Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story
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3.74 avg rating — 2,972 ratings
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
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4.31 avg rating — 6,846 ratings
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Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
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3.94 avg rating — 821 ratings
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Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
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3.82 avg rating — 3,456 ratings
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Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television
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4.20 avg rating — 1,483 ratings
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
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4.24 avg rating — 2,821 ratings
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
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3.94 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
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4.23 avg rating — 7,042 ratings
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Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea
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4.33 avg rating — 9,654 ratings
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
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4.23 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
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Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
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3.91 avg rating — 2,089 ratings
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
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3.61 avg rating — 5,452 ratings
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
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4.15 avg rating — 147,888 ratings
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My Lobotomy: A Memoir
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3.78 avg rating — 15,655 ratings
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The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth
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4.17 avg rating — 797 ratings
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
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3.82 avg rating — 12,121 ratings
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Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
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4.04 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
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3.89 avg rating — 2,944 ratings
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The Murder of King Tut
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3.40 avg rating — 11,095 ratings
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The Last Days of John Lennon
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3.88 avg rating — 10,805 ratings
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The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
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4.28 avg rating — 1,650 ratings
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The House of Kennedy
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3.90 avg rating — 13,779 ratings
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Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
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4.16 avg rating — 4,363 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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3.86 avg rating — 11,188 ratings
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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
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3.89 avg rating — 1,637 ratings
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Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
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3.54 avg rating — 4,064 ratings
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Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World—Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
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4.11 avg rating — 2,843 ratings
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The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
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4.13 avg rating — 749 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,675 ratings
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1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink
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4.27 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
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3.89 avg rating — 2,225 ratings
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All That Is Wicked
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3.57 avg rating — 3,185 ratings
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
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4.33 avg rating — 9,654 ratings
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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
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3.93 avg rating — 10,202 ratings
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Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
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3.96 avg rating — 5,233 ratings
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
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3.80 avg rating — 65,140 ratings
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
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3.62 avg rating — 27,136 ratings
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Open Secrets
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4.16 avg rating — 561 ratings
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Source Code: My Beginnings
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4.16 avg rating — 14,228 ratings
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Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite
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3.74 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
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Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer
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3.83 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
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4.03 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
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Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
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3.23 avg rating — 18,392 ratings
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The Cold War: A New History
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3.95 avg rating — 8,531 ratings
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The Black Death: A Personal History
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3.51 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
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3.89 avg rating — 9,650 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 — 69,150 ratings
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Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences
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3.91 avg rating — 1,421 ratings
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Viral: The Search For the Origin Of COVID-19
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4.23 avg rating — 1,573 ratings
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Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford
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3.68 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Dream Land
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4.23 avg rating — 32,497 ratings
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The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
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3.81 avg rating — 2,077 ratings
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The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
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3.63 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
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The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
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4.38 avg rating — 2,578 ratings
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A Planet of Viruses
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4.06 avg rating — 5,128 ratings
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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
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4.37 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
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3.63 avg rating — 488 ratings
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After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family - 1968 to the Present
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4.17 avg rating — 1,512 ratings
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
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3.83 avg rating — 15,608 ratings
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Trial by Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham
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3.76 avg rating — 3,708 ratings
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
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4.34 avg rating — 10,225 ratings
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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
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4.05 avg rating — 3,432 ratings
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Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties
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4.22 avg rating — 4,175 ratings
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A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President
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3.82 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
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UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record
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4.02 avg rating — 2,838 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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3.96 avg rating — 15,558 ratings
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