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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
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The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
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3.81 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Authority: Essays
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3.84 avg rating — 694 ratings
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Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
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3.99 avg rating — 616 ratings
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The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest in America
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What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis
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3.88 avg rating — 157 ratings
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A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People – The National Book Award Winner's Cultural Meditation on Race, Blues, and Identity
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In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
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4.15 avg rating — 508 ratings
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The Tell: A Memoir
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3.98 avg rating — 46,821 ratings
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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
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4.59 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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4.50 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
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Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen
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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
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3.81 avg rating — 8,191 ratings
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The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
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Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom
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4.75 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History
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4.08 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise
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3.81 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The True Happiness Company: How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like That
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4.07 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
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To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women's Resistance Online
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4.36 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
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After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
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Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
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4.02 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
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Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
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They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
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Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
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3.84 avg rating — 550 ratings
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The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
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4.14 avg rating — 6,704 ratings
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
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4.63 avg rating — 3,258 ratings
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The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China
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4.17 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations – A Weird and Wonderful Tour of Mucus, Breath, and Tears
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3.56 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
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4.27 avg rating — 380 ratings
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When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
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4.37 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today
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3.87 avg rating — 375 ratings
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The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army
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4.12 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
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3.98 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
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4.26 avg rating — 879 ratings
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Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980
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4.32 avg rating — 943 ratings
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