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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 — 589,590 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,325,564 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,323,930 ratings — published 1947
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,223,635 ratings — published 1996
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.09 — 754,350 ratings — published 1966
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,390,514 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,075 ratings — published 1997
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 288,754 ratings — published 2018
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,972 ratings — published 2001
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,533 ratings — published 2017
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,270 ratings — published 1997
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.37 — 935,192 ratings — published 1946
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,652 ratings — published 1990
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 435,030 ratings — published 2003
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,738 ratings — published 1989
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 827,311 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 — 73,575 ratings — published 2012
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 492,896 ratings — published 1988
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 295,502 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,286 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 — 239,724 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 — 781,579 ratings — published 2003
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,088 ratings — published 1973
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,172 ratings — published 1983
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.01 — 231,536 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 4.36 — 70,827 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,967,786 ratings — published 2018
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.15 — 197,144 ratings — published 2016
To søstre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,775 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 — 638,528 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.95 — 159,844 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.06 — 248,307 ratings — published 2003
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,401,027 ratings — published 1956
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,604 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 — 457,980 ratings — published 1998
Introduction to Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 492 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 — 193,847 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 4.35 — 206,549 ratings — published 2018
Gomorrah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,711 ratings — published 2006
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 455,580 ratings — published 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 167,519 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 179,137 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 — 120,675 ratings — published 1997
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.07 — 887,456 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 4.07 — 485,061 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,895 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 889,314 ratings — published 2008
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,556 ratings — published 2009
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,196 ratings — published 1994
Directing the Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 339 ratings — published 1987
“But now I became fascinated by the chasm between who this person had been as Mary Claire Griffith at fifteen and who she'd become as Cleo Ray at twenty-five.”
― The Anatomy of Desire
― The Anatomy of Desire
“Today, millions of people from around the world are tuned in to this hundred-year-old courthouse, designed in the neoclassical style and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It's a building that stands as a proud symbol of American justice. Over the last several weeks a murder trial has been unfolding here, and the media attention it's gotten has been ferocious.”
― The Anatomy of Desire
― The Anatomy of Desire
