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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,262,738 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,387,120 ratings
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John Adams
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4.08 avg rating — 381,123 ratings
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The Story of My Life
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4.07 avg rating — 151,708 ratings
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
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3.71 avg rating — 161,117 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 — 30,092 ratings
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
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4.19 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 202,691 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,385,791 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 295,757 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 817,585 ratings
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Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 25,401 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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4.23 avg rating — 68,862 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,008,675 ratings
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Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 663,382 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 590,596 ratings
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Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely
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3.58 avg rating — 869 ratings
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A Pedagogist’s Memoir: Some Boys Are Born Twice
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
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4.71 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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4.43 avg rating — 24,415 ratings
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
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4.10 avg rating — 14,154 ratings
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 92,232 ratings
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Eleanor and Franklin
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4.26 avg rating — 2,982 ratings
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Oscar Wilde
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4.01 avg rating — 5,185 ratings
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Zeitoun
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4.05 avg rating — 80,497 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 84,797 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
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4.39 avg rating — 12,103 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
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4.33 avg rating — 16,061 ratings
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Black Like Me
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4.11 avg rating — 70,060 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 119,825 ratings
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
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3.99 avg rating — 91,199 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 123,088 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
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3.65 avg rating — 1,857,789 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
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4.12 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976
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3.68 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 108,832 ratings
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Capote
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4.17 avg rating — 5,202 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,793 ratings
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Mornings on Horseback
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4.10 avg rating — 35,802 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 — 77,241 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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3.94 avg rating — 232,220 ratings
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Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
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4.14 avg rating — 478,022 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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3.97 avg rating — 58,402 ratings
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Walt Disney: An American Original
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4.34 avg rating — 5,741 ratings
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Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
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4.46 avg rating — 613 ratings
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Confessions
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3.60 avg rating — 9,241 ratings
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Born on a Blue Day
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3.85 avg rating — 24,448 ratings
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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
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3.95 avg rating — 8,411 ratings
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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
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4.02 avg rating — 75,287 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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3.88 avg rating — 10,965 ratings
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
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4.05 avg rating — 7,492 ratings
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The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
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4.08 avg rating — 5,580 ratings
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Witness
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4.38 avg rating — 2,430 ratings
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Madame Curie: A Biography
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4.38 avg rating — 5,441 ratings
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 84,262 ratings
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Ike: An American Hero
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4.13 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
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My Place
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3.99 avg rating — 6,857 ratings
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All Over But the Shoutin'
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4.13 avg rating — 29,681 ratings
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A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
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4.16 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,879 ratings
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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4.42 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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I. Asimov: A Memoir
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4.05 avg rating — 3,682 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals
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4.16 avg rating — 64,955 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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4.16 avg rating — 23,217 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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3.77 avg rating — 7,942 ratings
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Half Broke Horses
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4.09 avg rating — 174,945 ratings
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A Beautiful Mind
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4.13 avg rating — 135,520 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 124,487 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 126,478 ratings
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Private Battles and The Khaki Cage
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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2 Weeks in the Desert with Dad
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Paul's Way: The true story of the Italian immigrant who overcame exile, kidnapping and family tragedy to transform the economy of his chosen homeland of Honduras
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
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3.91 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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A Writer's Diary 1873-1881
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3.72 avg rating — 1,522 ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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4.28 avg rating — 26,944 ratings
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Thoughts Without Cigarettes
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Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 74,744 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 55,538 ratings
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
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4.04 avg rating — 8,088 ratings
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My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue
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4.18 avg rating — 483 ratings
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Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
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4.06 avg rating — 5,542 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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3.87 avg rating — 8,095 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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3.94 avg rating — 38,755 ratings
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
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3.88 avg rating — 86,702 ratings
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
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3.86 avg rating — 57,548 ratings
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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4.19 avg rating — 20,153 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
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4.22 avg rating — 203,604 ratings
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Travels with Myself and Another
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3.84 avg rating — 2,361 ratings
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This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
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3.75 avg rating — 2,978 ratings
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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4.11 avg rating — 22,950 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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4.11 avg rating — 19,231 ratings
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The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
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3.92 avg rating — 26,091 ratings
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Tarzan Forever : The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan
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3.69 avg rating — 85 ratings
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War as I Knew It
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4.12 avg rating — 2,875 ratings
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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Just Kids
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4.21 avg rating — 367,926 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
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4.18 avg rating — 99,953 ratings
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Robert Kennedy: His Life
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4.23 avg rating — 3,826 ratings
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A. Lincoln
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4.30 avg rating — 20,436 ratings
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With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 8,785 ratings
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