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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
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One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
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The Evolution of God
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
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Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
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The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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Rembrandt's Jews
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The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military
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Gulag: A History
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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Crime and Punishment in America
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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
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Annals of the Former World
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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How the Mind Works
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The INHERITANCE: HOW THREE FAMILIES AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL MAJORITY MOVED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
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Fame & Folly: Essays
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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age
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The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume 3: The Cultivation of Hatred
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
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Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains
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Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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Broken Vessels: Essays
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Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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River of Traps: A Village Life
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Looking for a Ship
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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
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Between the World and Me
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If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
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The Ants
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And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
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The Last Farmer: An American Memoir
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society, with "A Response to My Critics"
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
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Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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