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The Call of the Wild
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3.92 avg rating — 490,112 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.27 avg rating — 595,004 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,231,115 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,411,070 ratings
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
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4.08 avg rating — 5,273 ratings
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White Fang
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4.03 avg rating — 213,209 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 129,839 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,432,244 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.22 avg rating — 869,420 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.09 avg rating — 240,743 ratings
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Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 672,067 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.21 avg rating — 4,355,528 ratings
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The Terror
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4.09 avg rating — 80,142 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.04 avg rating — 1,035,092 ratings
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 135,841 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.03 avg rating — 4,856,620 ratings
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The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
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4.18 avg rating — 95,272 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 36,467 ratings
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Oliver Twist
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3.88 avg rating — 440,138 ratings
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King Lear
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3.91 avg rating — 245,202 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 — 601,381 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.47 avg rating — 182,840 ratings
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The Color Purple (The Color Purple, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 776,941 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 266,487 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.98 avg rating — 2,168,013 ratings
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Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,736 ratings
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
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3.73 avg rating — 53,654 ratings
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The Snow Child
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4.02 avg rating — 184,050 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,099,006 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,394,294 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 22,690 ratings
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.82 avg rating — 1,387,971 ratings
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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3.85 avg rating — 310,918 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,151,426 ratings
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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3.89 avg rating — 56,825 ratings
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Germinal
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4.21 avg rating — 45,525 ratings
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Gorky Park
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4.03 avg rating — 71,103 ratings
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Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
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4.16 avg rating — 1,955 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 83,669 ratings
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Icebound
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3.78 avg rating — 21,404 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,022,484 ratings
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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole
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3.99 avg rating — 4,066 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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4.02 avg rating — 584,609 ratings
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The Ice Storm
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3.65 avg rating — 6,285 ratings
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The Greenlanders
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3.93 avg rating — 3,203 ratings
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Hunger
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4.03 avg rating — 69,398 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
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4.19 avg rating — 3,906 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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4.38 avg rating — 28,127 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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3.66 avg rating — 359,720 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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4.05 avg rating — 23,250 ratings
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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4.23 avg rating — 67,246 ratings
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Tobacco Road
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3.71 avg rating — 16,236 ratings
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Snow
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3.63 avg rating — 50,779 ratings
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The Birthday Boys
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3.92 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.26 avg rating — 58,835 ratings
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Arctic Dreams
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4.23 avg rating — 9,393 ratings
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
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4.43 avg rating — 4,835 ratings
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'Tis
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3.75 avg rating — 67,697 ratings
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19,107 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
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4.26 avg rating — 81,825 ratings
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 288,975 ratings
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
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3.69 avg rating — 9,330 ratings
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The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47
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4.38 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 62,130 ratings
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Washington's Crossing
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4.16 avg rating — 15,481 ratings
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Ice Station Zebra
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4.01 avg rating — 20,273 ratings
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The Hunger
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3.59 avg rating — 37,968 ratings
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StarCrossed (Thief Errant, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 6,737 ratings
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Hecuba
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3.99 avg rating — 3,450 ratings
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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4.32 avg rating — 1,227,823 ratings
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
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4.05 avg rating — 7,611 ratings
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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4.23 avg rating — 9,637 ratings
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Trapped
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3.29 avg rating — 9,804 ratings
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The Jungle
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3.79 avg rating — 158,770 ratings
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Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival
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4.20 avg rating — 453 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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4.16 avg rating — 64,075 ratings
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At the Mountains of Madness
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3.77 avg rating — 69,103 ratings
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The White Darkness
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3.97 avg rating — 10,951 ratings
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Who Goes There?
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3.76 avg rating — 13,248 ratings
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Silas Marner
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3.70 avg rating — 96,633 ratings
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Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag
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4.17 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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4.36 avg rating — 290,005 ratings
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Mountain Man
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4.12 avg rating — 1,898 ratings
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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
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3.84 avg rating — 2,192 ratings
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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4.10 avg rating — 17,532 ratings
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Overboard!: A True Blue-Water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
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4.29 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Wind, Sand and Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 22,420 ratings
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
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3.97 avg rating — 2,511 ratings
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Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition
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3.81 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Stalingrad
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3.98 avg rating — 285 ratings
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117 Days Adrift
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4.06 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Ethan Frome
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3.47 avg rating — 142,913 ratings
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Our Mutual Friend
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4.09 avg rating — 32,165 ratings
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Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures From Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition
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4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The First Circle
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4.26 avg rating — 10,432 ratings
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The Ice Soldier
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3.69 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Little Match Girl
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4.10 avg rating — 29,480 ratings
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Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest
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4.25 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Portrait of Southern Sharecroppers in the Great Depression
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3.96 avg rating — 4,095 ratings
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Far North
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3.97 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
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