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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
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Mark Twain
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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4.17 avg rating — 58,415 ratings
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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4.50 avg rating — 19,687 ratings
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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4.46 avg rating — 21,764 ratings
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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4.17 avg rating — 215,479 ratings
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King: A Life
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4.64 avg rating — 12,776 ratings
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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4.50 avg rating — 8,707 ratings
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
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4.45 avg rating — 10,250 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.54 avg rating — 138,648 ratings
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
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4.27 avg rating — 18,711 ratings
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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4.55 avg rating — 11,123 ratings
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
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4.40 avg rating — 5,763 ratings
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
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4.30 avg rating — 41,997 ratings
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
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4.39 avg rating — 10,485 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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4.70 avg rating — 40,297 ratings
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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
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4.31 avg rating — 6,337 ratings
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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4.52 avg rating — 163,155 ratings
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
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4.33 avg rating — 7,457 ratings
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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4.31 avg rating — 100,588 ratings
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Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
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4.32 avg rating — 7,558 ratings
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JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956
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4.55 avg rating — 3,064 ratings
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
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4.76 avg rating — 5,153 ratings
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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4.40 avg rating — 5,939 ratings
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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4.43 avg rating — 4,287 ratings
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