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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.26 — 570,328 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,267,790 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,204,636 ratings — published 1947
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,195,516 ratings — published 1996
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.09 — 731,849 ratings — published 1966
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 282,510 ratings — published 2018
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,362,631 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,015 ratings — published 1997
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,543 ratings — published 2001
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,154 ratings — published 1990
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.22 — 423,772 ratings — published 2003
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.14 — 448,571 ratings — published 2017
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 65,018 ratings — published 1997
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,195 ratings — published 1989
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 806,784 ratings — published 2010
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,198 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.37 — 883,260 ratings — published 1946
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 480,641 ratings — published 1988
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,310 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,561 ratings — published 2006
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 234,702 ratings — published 2009
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,090 ratings — published 2003
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,824 ratings — published 1973
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.51 — 39,232 ratings — published 1983
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.01 — 225,891 ratings — published 2003
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.37 — 65,360 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,870,473 ratings — published 2018
To søstre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,439 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 625,032 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.95 — 157,742 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.06 — 241,003 ratings — published 2003
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,367,905 ratings — published 1956
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,761 ratings — published 2009
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.07 — 446,765 ratings — published 1998
Introduction to Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 486 ratings — published 2001
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 168,692 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.36 — 202,314 ratings — published 2018
Gomorrah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,841 ratings — published 2006
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.11 — 264,821 ratings — published 2018
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 187,095 ratings — published 2016
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 446,418 ratings — published 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 162,227 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 166,840 ratings — published 1959
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,196 ratings — published 1997
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.07 — 869,515 ratings — published 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.08 — 476,155 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,111 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 869,211 ratings — published 2008
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.39 — 999,762 ratings — published 2010
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 80,759 ratings — published 2009
“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.”
― Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
― Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
“Gaman is a documentary that revealed the four year study experience of a Japanese student who left Japan to study in Australia and then returned home with a foreign qualification”
― Gaman A Japanese Students Four Year Study Journey Australia
― Gaman A Japanese Students Four Year Study Journey Australia
