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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,337 ratings
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The Orchid Thief
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3.66 avg rating — 21,850 ratings
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People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
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3.79 avg rating — 23,307 ratings
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
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4.04 avg rating — 4,390 ratings
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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
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4.05 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
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4.13 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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3.93 avg rating — 65,737 ratings
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Assassination Vacation
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3.93 avg rating — 47,232 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 118,426 ratings
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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 144,075 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.23 avg rating — 84,309 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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4.39 avg rating — 360,174 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 755,646 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 160,926 ratings
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Thunderstruck
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3.78 avg rating — 56,361 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 72,065 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 365,211 ratings
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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3.90 avg rating — 6,405 ratings
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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3.90 avg rating — 20,777 ratings
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The Faraway Nearby
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4.20 avg rating — 7,679 ratings
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
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3.72 avg rating — 8,185 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 801,714 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 — 56,077 ratings
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Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
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4.18 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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4.30 avg rating — 233,149 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 110,061 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 121,632 ratings
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The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
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3.63 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Unfamiliar Fishes
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3.64 avg rating — 15,470 ratings
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Savages
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4.08 avg rating — 787 ratings
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Running the Amazon
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3.97 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
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Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America
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3.48 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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3.86 avg rating — 8,193 ratings
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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3.70 avg rating — 5,150 ratings
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
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3.69 avg rating — 3,048 ratings
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The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket
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3.78 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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4.49 avg rating — 216,777 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,870 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,516 ratings
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The Argonauts
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4.02 avg rating — 56,208 ratings
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
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4.14 avg rating — 28,643 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 17,075 ratings
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Levels of Life
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3.90 avg rating — 14,106 ratings
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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
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4.21 avg rating — 9,395 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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4.36 avg rating — 37,345 ratings
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City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa
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3.93 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
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4.30 avg rating — 10,713 ratings
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Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
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3.69 avg rating — 498 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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4.05 avg rating — 4,573 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 19,848 ratings
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
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4.48 avg rating — 3,703 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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4.26 avg rating — 39,470 ratings
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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
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3.56 avg rating — 393 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
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4.10 avg rating — 54,617 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
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3.92 avg rating — 119,465 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 444,135 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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4.07 avg rating — 121,571 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,703 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,944 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,120 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 726,219 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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4.05 avg rating — 4,405 ratings
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
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4.05 avg rating — 5,843 ratings
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
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4.14 avg rating — 1,966 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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4.34 avg rating — 21,736 ratings
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Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause
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4.08 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.21 avg rating — 77,030 ratings
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
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3.80 avg rating — 39,784 ratings
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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3.87 avg rating — 12,263 ratings
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American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
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4.04 avg rating — 990 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 565,345 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.20 avg rating — 88,934 ratings
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
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3.74 avg rating — 10,428 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,183 ratings
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The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
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4.15 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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3.67 avg rating — 1,893 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 — 29,776 ratings
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The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan
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3.61 avg rating — 367 ratings
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The Africans
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3.96 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
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3.82 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times
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4.01 avg rating — 9,723 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 — 14,464 ratings
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From the Dragon's Mouth: 10 True Stories that Unveil the Real China
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3.93 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
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4.10 avg rating — 3,375 ratings
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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3.79 avg rating — 4,441 ratings
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The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
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3.82 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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4.20 avg rating — 40,130 ratings
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
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4.01 avg rating — 34,374 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,255 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 118,845 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 170,551 ratings
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
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3.93 avg rating — 15,859 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,426 ratings
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Discord: The Story of Noise
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3.38 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.53 avg rating — 28,878 ratings
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
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3.72 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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3.73 avg rating — 31,855 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,062 ratings
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Eating Animals
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4.21 avg rating — 80,628 ratings
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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
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4.43 avg rating — 14,553 ratings
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