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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 216,458 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.33 avg rating — 1,047,958 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 165,615 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 236,785 ratings
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When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 17,569 ratings
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The Sunne in Splendour
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4.41 avg rating — 22,847 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
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3.99 avg rating — 17,571 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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4.23 avg rating — 30,038 ratings
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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3.75 avg rating — 34,482 ratings
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Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
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4.31 avg rating — 59,862 ratings
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
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4.13 avg rating — 10,219 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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4.16 avg rating — 23,193 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 108,738 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 35,365 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 852,385 ratings
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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3.96 avg rating — 3,375 ratings
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Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 25,186 ratings
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Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
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3.92 avg rating — 39,760 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 843,134 ratings
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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4.32 avg rating — 14,926 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 399,269 ratings
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 350,234 ratings
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
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3.80 avg rating — 5,380 ratings
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The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)
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4.36 avg rating — 157,713 ratings
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Lionheart (Plantagenets #4; Richard the Lionheart #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 7,884 ratings
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Pamela
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2.75 avg rating — 13,837 ratings
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The Thorn Birds
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4.25 avg rating — 367,322 ratings
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East of Eden
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4.45 avg rating — 666,965 ratings
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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4.20 avg rating — 36,724 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.84 avg rating — 1,217,356 ratings
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 351,249 ratings
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The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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4.20 avg rating — 21,644 ratings
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I, Claudius/Claudius the God
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4.45 avg rating — 2,949 ratings
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Confessions
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3.60 avg rating — 9,226 ratings
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The Brothers of Gwynedd (Brothers of Gwynedd #1-4)
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4.15 avg rating — 1,783 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
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4.22 avg rating — 203,126 ratings
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John Adams
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4.08 avg rating — 380,684 ratings
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Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)
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4.28 avg rating — 42,859 ratings
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Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
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3.40 avg rating — 8,587 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,869 ratings
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Palliser Novels
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4.38 avg rating — 780 ratings
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DIARY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CALL GIRL
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
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4.47 avg rating — 5,129 ratings
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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
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4.41 avg rating — 19,982 ratings
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Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels
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4.25 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
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4.33 avg rating — 16,041 ratings
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
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3.54 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 92,123 ratings
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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3.76 avg rating — 121,211 ratings
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James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small/All Things Bright and Beautiful/All Things Wise and Wonderful/The Lord God Made Them All/Boxed Set
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4.61 avg rating — 1,915 ratings
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The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
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4.26 avg rating — 28,982 ratings
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The Heaven Tree Trilogy: The Heaven Tree / The Green Branch / The Scarlet Seed
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4.31 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 309,814 ratings
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Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
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3.85 avg rating — 588 ratings
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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
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3.88 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 202,328 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 279,890 ratings
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The Balkan Trilogy
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4.17 avg rating — 3,005 ratings
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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4.18 avg rating — 8,387 ratings
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Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy
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3.71 avg rating — 13,780 ratings
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North and South (North and South, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 62,698 ratings
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The Complete Enderby: Inside Mr. Enderby, Enderby Outside, the Clockwork Testament, Enderby's Dark Lady
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4.06 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849
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4.36 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
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4.50 avg rating — 275 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill (The Last Lion, #1-3)
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4.66 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Stone's Fall
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3.87 avg rating — 8,774 ratings
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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
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4.49 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871
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4.54 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
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4.49 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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Eleanor and Franklin
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4.26 avg rating — 2,982 ratings
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Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881
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4.53 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Grant
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4.03 avg rating — 13,020 ratings
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Quiet Flows the Don
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4.12 avg rating — 13,396 ratings
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Rich Man, Poor Man
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4.19 avg rating — 38,807 ratings
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Bernard Shaw, Volume 3: The Lure of Fantasy, 1918-1950
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Master of Hestviken
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4.38 avg rating — 212 ratings
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A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
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4.20 avg rating — 3,744 ratings
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The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
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3.99 avg rating — 2,291 ratings
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The Pale Abyssinian: A Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer
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4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Joseph Knight
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4.02 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Karlamagnús Saga: The Saga of Charlemagne and his Heroes
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Burr
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4.09 avg rating — 10,776 ratings
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History of My Life, Vols. I & II
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4.29 avg rating — 451 ratings
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James Madison: A Biography
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3.96 avg rating — 4,480 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 84,524 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 95,428 ratings
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The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones
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4.25 avg rating — 5,055 ratings
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Life and Fate
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4.46 avg rating — 15,991 ratings
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North and South
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4.15 avg rating — 186,139 ratings
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Das Boot: The Boat
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4.26 avg rating — 6,106 ratings
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Shakespeare: The Biography
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4.03 avg rating — 2,349 ratings
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The Autobiography: Truth and poetry: from my own life
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3.81 avg rating — 329 ratings
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The Song of Bernadette
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4.24 avg rating — 1,351 ratings
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Forever Amber
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19,772 ratings
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
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4.28 avg rating — 5,487 ratings
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Katherine
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4.21 avg rating — 36,328 ratings
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Oscar Wilde: A Biography
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4.01 avg rating — 5,184 ratings
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Christy
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4.25 avg rating — 57,509 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 68,703 ratings
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I Will Bear Witness 1933-41: A Diary of the Nazi Years
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4.34 avg rating — 3,001 ratings
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I wonder if anyone has made a list of literary biographies?