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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,183,414 ratings
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West with the Night
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4.15 avg rating — 40,953 ratings
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A Moveable Feast
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4.02 avg rating — 166,796 ratings
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Story of Civilization
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4.43 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 478,464 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 456,696 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,622 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,691 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 192,532 ratings
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Ancient Egypt
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4.15 avg rating — 466 ratings
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The Histories
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4.01 avg rating — 55,559 ratings
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
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4.12 avg rating — 45,931 ratings
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In Search of the Trojan War
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4.09 avg rating — 860 ratings
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The Twelve Caesars
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4.03 avg rating — 22,772 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.02 avg rating — 15,473 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
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3.97 avg rating — 9,414 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,870 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
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3.84 avg rating — 3,895 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.88 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Great Cathedrals
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4.40 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Great Monasteries of Europe
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Denn ich bin krank vor Liebe: Das Leben der Hildegard von Bingen
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,686 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 44,101 ratings
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Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain
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4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Aladdin's Lamp
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3.59 avg rating — 307 ratings
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The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
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3.70 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present
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3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Irish Famine
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3.73 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
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3.75 avg rating — 1,675 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
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3.71 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
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The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Revised and Updated
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3.97 avg rating — 2,006 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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4.11 avg rating — 19,129 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
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3.99 avg rating — 17,463 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,788 ratings
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Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth
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4.12 avg rating — 3,478 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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3.97 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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England Under the Tudors
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3.88 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide
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4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, and the Other Players in His Story.
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3.98 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Shakespeare: For All Time
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4.14 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
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4.26 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Searching for Shakespeare
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4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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3.88 avg rating — 10,806 ratings
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Shakespeare
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3.87 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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3.82 avg rating — 48,866 ratings
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
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4.08 avg rating — 4,353 ratings
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Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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3.87 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
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3.92 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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3.96 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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3.57 avg rating — 879 ratings
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Second Treatise of Government
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3.78 avg rating — 24,104 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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3.92 avg rating — 26,901 ratings
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
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3.85 avg rating — 9,010 ratings
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Unruly Times
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3.61 avg rating — 97 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 — 121,721 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 46,138 ratings
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1776
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4.10 avg rating — 248,062 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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3.95 avg rating — 47,493 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
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4.10 avg rating — 42,053 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: Writings
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4.23 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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3.94 avg rating — 29,017 ratings
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John Adams
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4.08 avg rating — 377,516 ratings
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Democracy in America
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4.05 avg rating — 27,023 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 199,904 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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4.40 avg rating — 33,863 ratings
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Essays and Lectures
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4.31 avg rating — 2,879 ratings
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Collected Essays and Poems
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4.21 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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3.77 avg rating — 204,058 ratings
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The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore
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3.81 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
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4.14 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Here, Now, and Always: Voices of the First Peoples of the Southwest
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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3.82 avg rating — 5,372 ratings
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Twilight in the Forbidden City
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3.96 avg rating — 281 ratings
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
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3.98 avg rating — 2,356 ratings
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The Complete Essays
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4.23 avg rating — 22,049 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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3.87 avg rating — 8,055 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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3.94 avg rating — 38,442 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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4.15 avg rating — 23,048 ratings
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Catherine the Great
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4.09 avg rating — 3,058 ratings
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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman
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3.75 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Hitler
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4.23 avg rating — 2,373 ratings
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The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them
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4.25 avg rating — 798 ratings
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
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4.22 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Mein Leben
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4.37 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
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3.55 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin 1971-95: A Documentation Exhibition = Eine Dokumentationsausstellung
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
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4.18 avg rating — 54,384 ratings
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All the President’s Men
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4.18 avg rating — 57,871 ratings
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The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
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4.14 avg rating — 5,200 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 224,963 ratings
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For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (Castle Lectures Series)
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
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4.25 avg rating — 12 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 — 36,732 ratings
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The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
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4.24 avg rating — 1,414 ratings
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Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
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4.17 avg rating — 6,689 ratings
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The Book of Tea
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3.85 avg rating — 17,514 ratings
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Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West
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3.80 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat (New York Review Books Classics)
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3.54 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Cathedral Cats
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3.94 avg rating — 106 ratings
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