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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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Napoleon: A Life
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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Grant
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
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These Truths: A History of the United States
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 129,078 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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Leonardo da Vinci
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
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4.06 avg rating — 36,224 ratings
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
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4.26 avg rating — 14,083 ratings
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Jerusalem: The Biography
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
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3.83 avg rating — 29,546 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The Second World War
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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Between the World and Me
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 58,202 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 — 31,649 ratings
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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
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4.11 avg rating — 5,378 ratings
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The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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The Nightingale
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
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The Song of Achilles
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
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George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
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The Underground Railroad
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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How to Be a Victorian
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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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4.15 avg rating — 11,566 ratings
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Norse Mythology
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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3.67 avg rating — 8,147 ratings
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Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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The Darkening Age: A dazzling exploration of the history of early Christianity
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 ― A Modern History of the Vietnam War
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
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The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
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Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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Killing Jesus: A History
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
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