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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.19 avg rating — 18,851 ratings
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No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
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4.12 avg rating — 28,754 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 30,551 ratings
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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4.22 avg rating — 82,015 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,138 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 118,962 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 28,113 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 — 115,738 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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3.96 avg rating — 30,275 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
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4.14 avg rating — 18,213 ratings
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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3.94 avg rating — 28,978 ratings
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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3.97 avg rating — 31,573 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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4.38 avg rating — 30,813 ratings
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Leonardo da Vinci
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4.18 avg rating — 126,859 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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3.95 avg rating — 15,033 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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4.06 avg rating — 34,343 ratings
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
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4.19 avg rating — 9,317 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.37 avg rating — 63,659 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 101,479 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 — 29,739 ratings
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The Johnstown Flood
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4.13 avg rating — 25,149 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 36,587 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 93,634 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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4.21 avg rating — 26,527 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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4.09 avg rating — 66,283 ratings
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
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4.34 avg rating — 32,796 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 101,714 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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4.22 avg rating — 22,799 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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4.40 avg rating — 33,667 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.25 avg rating — 52,784 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,566 ratings
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Mornings on Horseback
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4.10 avg rating — 35,140 ratings
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 91,128 ratings
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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3.49 avg rating — 91,480 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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4.04 avg rating — 8,503 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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3.94 avg rating — 40,366 ratings
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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4.52 avg rating — 86,689 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 123,177 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 182,830 ratings
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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4.09 avg rating — 16,791 ratings
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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3.61 avg rating — 15,154 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 — 36,541 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 34,387 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.49 avg rating — 47,193 ratings
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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4.15 avg rating — 176,135 ratings
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Gulag: A History
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4.28 avg rating — 13,278 ratings
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
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3.85 avg rating — 17,201 ratings
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Common Sense
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 39,189 ratings
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Killing Jesus: A History
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3.99 avg rating — 39,963 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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3.83 avg rating — 12,837 ratings
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A History of Western Philosophy
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4.13 avg rating — 41,345 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.94 avg rating — 20,557 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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4.09 avg rating — 61,743 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 122,725 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,261 ratings
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Napoleon: A Life
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4.24 avg rating — 28,053 ratings
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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4.11 avg rating — 23,100 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,187 ratings
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The First World War
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4.04 avg rating — 15,797 ratings
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
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4.11 avg rating — 17,334 ratings
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Inside the Third Reich
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4.10 avg rating — 14,268 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,071 ratings
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Mein Kampf
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3.17 avg rating — 43,509 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
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4.40 avg rating — 203,581 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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4.11 avg rating — 16,214 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 53,626 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 15,037 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 153,470 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
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3.99 avg rating — 13,931 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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3.91 avg rating — 44,008 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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4.02 avg rating — 21,378 ratings
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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4.11 avg rating — 11,826 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 44,689 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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4.40 avg rating — 16,027 ratings
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The Romanovs, 1613-1918
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4.02 avg rating — 16,141 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 169,973 ratings
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The Lessons of History
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4.05 avg rating — 20,154 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 64,224 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 200,881 ratings
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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4.26 avg rating — 15,979 ratings
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Storm of Steel
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4.15 avg rating — 21,279 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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4.27 avg rating — 14,402 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.15 avg rating — 23,927 ratings
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The Best and the Brightest
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4.27 avg rating — 12,779 ratings
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Thunderstruck
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3.78 avg rating — 56,118 ratings
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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4.39 avg rating — 19,484 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.29 avg rating — 53,187 ratings
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 10,752 ratings
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The Children's Blizzard
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3.89 avg rating — 13,030 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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4.28 avg rating — 97,970 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 228,683 ratings
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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4.20 avg rating — 18,249 ratings
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
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3.90 avg rating — 11,559 ratings
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 224,130 ratings
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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3.65 avg rating — 7,705 ratings
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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4.21 avg rating — 46,685 ratings
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
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3.89 avg rating — 12,062 ratings
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
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3.93 avg rating — 62,312 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,749 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 55,877 ratings
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