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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,739 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,132 ratings
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Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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3.62 avg rating — 1,898 ratings
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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4.02 avg rating — 10,665 ratings
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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3.82 avg rating — 11,129 ratings
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Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
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3.76 avg rating — 5,239 ratings
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
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4.19 avg rating — 2,722 ratings
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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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4.09 avg rating — 23,730 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,389 ratings
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
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4.08 avg rating — 39,253 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 — 2,631 ratings
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
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4.17 avg rating — 3,065 ratings
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Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor
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4.22 avg rating — 3,020 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 40,384 ratings
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The Feather Thief
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4.01 avg rating — 35,286 ratings
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
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3.84 avg rating — 29,049 ratings
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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4.10 avg rating — 15,882 ratings
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The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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4.07 avg rating — 45,581 ratings
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
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4.19 avg rating — 9,556 ratings
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Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet
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3.81 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 240,269 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,291 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,652 ratings
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
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4.28 avg rating — 913 ratings
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Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine
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3.95 avg rating — 2,784 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
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3.53 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 588,741 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 261,755 ratings
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The Argonauts
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4.02 avg rating — 56,396 ratings
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Educated
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4.47 avg rating — 1,860,044 ratings
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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4.38 avg rating — 20,672 ratings
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Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, The Queen, And The Revolution
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3.91 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
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4.16 avg rating — 1,049 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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4.02 avg rating — 21,544 ratings
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Eastern Curlew
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4.30 avg rating — 120 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 — 76,361 ratings
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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4.40 avg rating — 281,845 ratings
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The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
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3.37 avg rating — 966 ratings
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Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority
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3.99 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
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3.77 avg rating — 8,546 ratings
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
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3.57 avg rating — 8,309 ratings
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The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers
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3.94 avg rating — 669 ratings
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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man
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3.82 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
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The Tulip
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3.38 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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3.73 avg rating — 10,635 ratings
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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4.03 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
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4.13 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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4.06 avg rating — 9,911 ratings
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
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3.77 avg rating — 2,746 ratings
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
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4.10 avg rating — 4,919 ratings
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Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy
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3.81 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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4.23 avg rating — 14,054 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 59,894 ratings
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Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac
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4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong
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3.91 avg rating — 3,020 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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3.87 avg rating — 30,075 ratings
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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4.39 avg rating — 93,563 ratings
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Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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4.27 avg rating — 84,342 ratings
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Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
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3.67 avg rating — 4,445 ratings
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No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
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4.04 avg rating — 703 ratings
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Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero
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3.85 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Hound and the Hawk: The Art of Medieval Hunting
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4.10 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Medieval Vagina: An Historical and Hysterical Look at All Things Vaginal During the Middle Ages
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3.65 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,696 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.60 avg rating — 3,539 ratings
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How Soccer Explains the World
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3.79 avg rating — 13,312 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 — 72,381 ratings
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How Dogs Work
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3.79 avg rating — 168 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 — 475,182 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 457,621 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.22 avg rating — 108,543 ratings
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House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live
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3.55 avg rating — 421 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 — 31,929 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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3.67 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 121,524 ratings
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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
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4.06 avg rating — 4,848 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.37 avg rating — 64,896 ratings
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Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream
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4.22 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 185,864 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 117,270 ratings
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
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3.96 avg rating — 6,657 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 866,812 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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3.91 avg rating — 85,322 ratings
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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4.50 avg rating — 21,736 ratings
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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4.12 avg rating — 519 ratings
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The Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero
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3.97 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 20,132 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.87 avg rating — 35,225 ratings
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Starting Point 1979-1996
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4.13 avg rating — 1,622 ratings
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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3.83 avg rating — 5,624 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 — 121,825 ratings
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Drink This: Wine Made Simple
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4.12 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
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3.71 avg rating — 707 ratings
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Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
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4.08 avg rating — 2,219 ratings
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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3.78 avg rating — 2,811 ratings
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Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act
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4.21 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
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4.20 avg rating — 2,437 ratings
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