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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 89,535 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 568,738 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 225,422 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,193,188 ratings
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,363,308 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 210,433 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 658,710 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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3.66 avg rating — 358,691 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 855,759 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 195,527 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 457,901 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 445,958 ratings
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Mere Christianity
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4.37 avg rating — 457,991 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 206,519 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 291,501 ratings
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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4.21 avg rating — 1,202,177 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 194,268 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 74,946 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 — 89,203 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 — 121,857 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 82,033 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.66 avg rating — 140,372 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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4.07 avg rating — 119,502 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,697 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,389 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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3.91 avg rating — 44,223 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 61,845 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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4.05 avg rating — 113,147 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 95,287 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 475,373 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
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4.16 avg rating — 98,847 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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4.20 avg rating — 88,817 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 67,835 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
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3.92 avg rating — 119,801 ratings
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
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4.14 avg rating — 48,628 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 165,661 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
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4.18 avg rating — 54,496 ratings
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Zeitoun
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4.05 avg rating — 80,143 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 — 110,695 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 230,664 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 119,073 ratings
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Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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3.85 avg rating — 17,092 ratings
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Assassination Vacation
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3.93 avg rating — 47,268 ratings
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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4.24 avg rating — 5,840 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 868,015 ratings
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Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
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3.96 avg rating — 16,895 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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3.97 avg rating — 57,773 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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3.94 avg rating — 231,145 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 — 36,824 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 366,661 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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3.84 avg rating — 38,716 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 19,941 ratings
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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3.84 avg rating — 169,785 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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3.98 avg rating — 116,818 ratings
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
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3.98 avg rating — 19,496 ratings
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What Is the What
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4.15 avg rating — 87,324 ratings
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The Prophet
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4.23 avg rating — 329,227 ratings
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The Control of Nature
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4.25 avg rating — 4,945 ratings
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