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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,300,946 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,395,732 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,014,036 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 823,718 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 750,203 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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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 777,911 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,313,782 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 925,306 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.94 avg rating — 591,621 ratings
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John Adams
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4.09 avg rating — 382,842 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 490,388 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 469,543 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 432,897 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 397,082 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 365,574 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 384,088 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 374,496 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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4.39 avg rating — 369,550 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 297,982 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.09 avg rating — 272,416 ratings
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1776
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4.11 avg rating — 255,236 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.90 avg rating — 225,115 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 230,456 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 203,925 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.18 avg rating — 294,139 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 170,248 ratings
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Schindler’s List
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4.34 avg rating — 167,206 ratings
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The Complete Maus
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4.58 avg rating — 262,947 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.16 avg rating — 207,593 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
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4.22 avg rating — 205,410 ratings
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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 — 465,646 ratings
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Meditations
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4.27 avg rating — 374,573 ratings
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 160,343 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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4.05 avg rating — 153,338 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 166,600 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.69 avg rating — 207,167 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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4.23 avg rating — 152,180 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 125,115 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 — 123,888 ratings
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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4.44 avg rating — 142,062 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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3.69 avg rating — 102,765 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 126,692 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.95 avg rating — 109,092 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.14 avg rating — 138,095 ratings
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
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4.06 avg rating — 109,689 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.31 avg rating — 127,869 ratings
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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4.15 avg rating — 181,326 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 176,859 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 122,321 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 116,052 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 117,601 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.15 avg rating — 194,452 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 127,522 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 99,865 ratings
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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3.49 avg rating — 92,820 ratings
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 92,622 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 119,916 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
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4.18 avg rating — 100,596 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 — 114,583 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 105,148 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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3.85 avg rating — 93,687 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 96,348 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 97,646 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 105,443 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 103,901 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 73,639 ratings
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Leonardo da Vinci
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4.17 avg rating — 134,373 ratings
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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3.86 avg rating — 73,832 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 75,487 ratings
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Hiroshima
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4.06 avg rating — 92,431 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 — 121,205 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 — 77,724 ratings
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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4.21 avg rating — 84,804 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 87,053 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 78,830 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.25 avg rating — 89,106 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 — 76,424 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 85,866 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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4.31 avg rating — 70,171 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 81,270 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 — 69,415 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
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4.23 avg rating — 64,034 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.07 avg rating — 86,957 ratings
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
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4.11 avg rating — 63,083 ratings
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Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 174,394 ratings
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Survival in Auschwitz
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4.35 avg rating — 89,681 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 81,532 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 — 74,825 ratings
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All the President’s Men
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4.18 avg rating — 58,966 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 — 63,800 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 585,666 ratings
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