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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 468,003 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 561,354 ratings
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
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4.07 avg rating — 5,114 ratings
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White Fang
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4.03 avg rating — 205,603 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,181,508 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 124,100 ratings
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The Terror
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4.09 avg rating — 72,574 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 216,419 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,297,250 ratings
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 125,095 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 34,325 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 655,518 ratings
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King Lear
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3.91 avg rating — 235,698 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 838,861 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 161,348 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,350,666 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,141,840 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.03 avg rating — 985,410 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 21,698 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,469,341 ratings
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Oliver Twist
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3.88 avg rating — 424,655 ratings
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Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)
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3.99 avg rating — 11,314 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,022,957 ratings
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
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3.73 avg rating — 51,799 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 — 576,525 ratings
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The Snow Child
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4.01 avg rating — 169,728 ratings
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 300,877 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,268,039 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 259,618 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 746,791 ratings
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The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
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4.18 avg rating — 92,207 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,053,276 ratings
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,294,034 ratings
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The Greenlanders
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3.93 avg rating — 3,074 ratings
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Germinal
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4.20 avg rating — 42,549 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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4.37 avg rating — 26,323 ratings
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Icebound
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3.78 avg rating — 21,114 ratings
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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3.88 avg rating — 55,329 ratings
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Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
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4.14 avg rating — 1,876 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 — 64,046 ratings
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The Birthday Boys
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3.92 avg rating — 1,346 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 — 4,599 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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4.02 avg rating — 563,346 ratings
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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole
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3.98 avg rating — 3,893 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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4.18 avg rating — 3,627 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 991,170 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 81,566 ratings
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Gorky Park
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4.04 avg rating — 69,622 ratings
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Hunger
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4.04 avg rating — 64,029 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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4.36 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Tobacco Road
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3.71 avg rating — 15,848 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.25 avg rating — 52,600 ratings
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Washington's Crossing
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4.16 avg rating — 15,242 ratings
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Ice Station Zebra
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4.01 avg rating — 19,839 ratings
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StarCrossed (Thief Errant, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 6,737 ratings
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Hecuba
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,072 ratings
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Snow
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3.62 avg rating — 49,194 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 — 358,507 ratings
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
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3.99 avg rating — 18,207 ratings
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Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival
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4.19 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,099,151 ratings
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
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3.69 avg rating — 8,855 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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4.37 avg rating — 273,409 ratings
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Mountain Man
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4.12 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 19,505 ratings
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Overboard!: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
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4.28 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition
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3.82 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Stalingrad
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3.98 avg rating — 266 ratings
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117 Days Adrift
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4.07 avg rating — 295 ratings
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The First Circle
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4.26 avg rating — 10,143 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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4.16 avg rating — 61,517 ratings
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The Ice Storm
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3.65 avg rating — 6,133 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
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4.25 avg rating — 80,245 ratings
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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
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3.62 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
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Hard Times
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3.55 avg rating — 73,910 ratings
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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4.22 avg rating — 36,504 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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3.98 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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4.22 avg rating — 9,279 ratings
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Fear of Falling (Secrets in the Snow #1)
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3.40 avg rating — 638 ratings
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The Hunger
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3.59 avg rating — 34,803 ratings
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Arctic Dreams
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4.23 avg rating — 8,940 ratings
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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4.02 avg rating — 46,424 ratings
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
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4.04 avg rating — 7,248 ratings
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Snow
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3.68 avg rating — 4,677 ratings
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The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness
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4.11 avg rating — 288 ratings
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In Cold Pursuit: A Mystery from the Last Continent (Valena Walker, #1)
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3.47 avg rating — 284 ratings
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The Jungle
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3.78 avg rating — 153,777 ratings
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The White Tower
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3.78 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Butcher's Crossing
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4.18 avg rating — 34,428 ratings
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
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3.93 avg rating — 3,718 ratings
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The Climb (Everest, #2)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,400 ratings
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Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag
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4.16 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The Seventh Cross
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3.98 avg rating — 3,180 ratings
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The Solitude of Thomas Cave
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3.72 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Silas Marner
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3.69 avg rating — 93,043 ratings
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain
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4.20 avg rating — 8,910 ratings
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Timon of Athens
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3.45 avg rating — 7,778 ratings
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Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
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4.09 avg rating — 10,454 ratings
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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
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3.84 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
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Something in the Woods is Taking People
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3.56 avg rating — 423 ratings
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