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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 — 563,904 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,245,805 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,157,088 ratings — published 1947
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,185,251 ratings — published 1996
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.09 — 724,594 ratings — published 1966
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 280,522 ratings — published 2018
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,353,082 ratings — published 2011
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,471 ratings — published 2001
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,370 ratings — published 1997
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,035 ratings — published 1990
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,038 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 — 441,330 ratings — published 2017
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,408 ratings — published 1997
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,012 ratings — published 1989
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 800,245 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 — 71,771 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.37 — 865,471 ratings — published 1946
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.51 — 38,691 ratings — published 1983
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,037 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,310 ratings — published 1988
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 — 232,693 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 — 754,024 ratings — published 2003
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.01 — 224,246 ratings — published 2003
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 285,694 ratings — published 2015
To søstre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,340 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 — 619,840 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.95 — 157,083 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,889 ratings — published 2003
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 80,586 ratings — published 2009
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,354,801 ratings — published 1956
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.29 — 101,975 ratings — published 2009
Introduction to Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 483 ratings — published 2001
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.37 — 64,065 ratings — published 2019
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 — 200,752 ratings — published 2018
Gomorrah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,572 ratings — published 2006
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,837,415 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 — 183,612 ratings — published 2016
The Butterfly Effect (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,317 ratings — published 2017
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,491 ratings — published 1973
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 443,281 ratings — published 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 160,581 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 162,906 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 — 118,752 ratings — published 1997
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.07 — 862,939 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 — 472,777 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 98,910 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 860,727 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 — 993,276 ratings — published 2010
Directing the Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 331 ratings — published 1987
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.01 — 894,313 ratings — published 2005
“我不喜歡用議題或訊息這類詞彙來闡述或是被闡述作品。會被這類詞彙歸納的作品，鐵定是因為處理人的部分太弱了。沒有人的存在是為了故事或議題。我們只是那樣的活著——生命翻滾於那些樣態的活著。”
― 雲沒有回答: 高級官僚的生與死
― 雲沒有回答: 高級官僚的生與死
“When we came and rented the North Perth home, my father had a little ice chest, and on top of the ice chest was a radio. And we were sitting at our lunch time on Sunday eating dinner after church, and my Mum says, ‘Look where we’ve ended up. We’ve got a table cloth on our table, we’ve got food on our plate, and we’re listening to music.’ That was a big thing for my mother. - Mrs Helen Doropoulos, Greece”
― Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
― Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
