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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.25 avg rating — 53,852 ratings
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
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3.85 avg rating — 39,141 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 — 76,389 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 186,115 ratings
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The Book on the Bookshelf
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3.75 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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3.74 avg rating — 16,792 ratings
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Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
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4.14 avg rating — 476,948 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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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 240,423 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,780 ratings
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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3.87 avg rating — 106,428 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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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.22 avg rating — 108,631 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,310 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,194 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 56,279 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,674 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,743 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,427 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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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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3.76 avg rating — 69,110 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,360 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
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4.14 avg rating — 18,362 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 — 11,132 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 — 72,432 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,316 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 165,660 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
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3.44 avg rating — 13,997 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,438 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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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 998,283 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,147 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 161,761 ratings
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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3.81 avg rating — 46,864 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 — 10,668 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 28,216 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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3.88 avg rating — 21,869 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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3.81 avg rating — 33,817 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.06 avg rating — 81,646 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 69,103 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 154,102 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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3.80 avg rating — 52,360 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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3.82 avg rating — 48,938 ratings
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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3.79 avg rating — 72,825 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 124,254 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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3.97 avg rating — 11,785 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 131,192 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 — 361,825 ratings
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H is for Hawk
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3.74 avg rating — 80,844 ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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3.98 avg rating — 66,872 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
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4.18 avg rating — 98,717 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 — 5,383 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 9,093 ratings
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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3.77 avg rating — 4,133 ratings
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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3.99 avg rating — 64,048 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.10 avg rating — 41,479 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
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3.87 avg rating — 46,871 ratings
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
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3.51 avg rating — 12,685 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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