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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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In Cold Blood
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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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 Diary of a Young Girl
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Columbine
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,362,035 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Man's Search for Meaning
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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A Room of One’s Own
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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John Adams
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 64,696 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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1776
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 153,962 ratings
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Hiroshima
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Twelve Years a Slave
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Alexander Hamilton
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 118,686 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 — 138,762 ratings
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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Naked
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4.10 avg rating — 273,017 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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Schindler’s List
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 84,576 ratings
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The Elements of Style
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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4.23 avg rating — 29,803 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,628 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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A Moveable Feast
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 117,159 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Survival in Auschwitz
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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The God Delusion
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Black Like Me
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 113,682 ratings
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The Things They Carried
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4.15 avg rating — 344,436 ratings
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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
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Zeitoun
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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3.69 avg rating — 183,623 ratings
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All the President’s Men
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The Wright Brothers
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 134,757 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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The Right Stuff
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4.23 avg rating — 55,610 ratings
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Silent Spring
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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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 — 158,062 ratings
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Homage to Catalonia
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,353 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,692 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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Long Walk to Freedom
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The Grand Design
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.09 avg rating — 265,871 ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil
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4.03 avg rating — 113,902 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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4.17 avg rating — 38,280 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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3.86 avg rating — 9,984 ratings
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