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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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4.39 avg rating — 19,910 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 117,608 ratings
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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
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4.41 avg rating — 19,833 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 — 21,681 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,712 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 368,230 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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4.46 avg rating — 22,119 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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4.31 avg rating — 27,294 ratings
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
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4.45 avg rating — 4,377 ratings
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
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4.05 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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All the Single Ladies
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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4.23 avg rating — 21,259 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 169,935 ratings
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
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4.21 avg rating — 3,781 ratings
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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
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4.31 avg rating — 2,542 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 114,592 ratings
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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
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4.16 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
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4.20 avg rating — 8,204 ratings
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
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4.26 avg rating — 8,126 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 83,307 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 100,384 ratings
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Stranger Magic: Charmed States & The Arabian Nights
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4.10 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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4.05 avg rating — 43,346 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 — 117,113 ratings
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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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4.20 avg rating — 17,070 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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Thank You for Your Service
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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4.13 avg rating — 12,494 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,780 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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4.37 avg rating — 20,681 ratings
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100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
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4.05 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
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The Trip to Echo Spring
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.06 avg rating — 82,337 ratings
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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4.23 avg rating — 32,367 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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4.53 avg rating — 38,557 ratings
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
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4.12 avg rating — 17,944 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 114,070 ratings
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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4.14 avg rating — 449,949 ratings
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Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
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4.16 avg rating — 1,852 ratings
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
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4.23 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Chester B. Himes: A Biography
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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4.05 avg rating — 32,986 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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4.07 avg rating — 45,832 ratings
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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4.23 avg rating — 12,850 ratings
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
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4.26 avg rating — 4,644 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 4,578 ratings
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