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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 760,109 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 805,858 ratings — published 2010
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 447,480 ratings — published 2017
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,382 ratings — published 2014
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 161,946 ratings — published 2015
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 730,693 ratings — published 1966
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,883 ratings — published 2012
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,080 ratings — published 2015
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 569,421 ratings — published 1997
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story – A Moving True Story Picture Book About the Historic Bombing and Apology for Kids (Ages 6-9)
by (shelved 54 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 726 ratings — published 2018
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 998,877 ratings — published 2010
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 210,016 ratings — published 2023
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 362,152 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,194,137 ratings — published 1996
Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,136 ratings — published 2016
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 21,021 ratings — published 2012
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 295,608 ratings — published 1994
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 167,611 ratings — published 2018
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,901 ratings — published 1998
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,168 ratings — published 2010
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 220,320 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,082 ratings — published 2000
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 282,211 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.54 — 136,551 ratings — published 2021
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 110,836 ratings — published 2009
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 225,595 ratings — published 2003
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 85,282 ratings — published 2011
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 48,199 ratings — published 2023
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 124,386 ratings — published 2018
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 446,313 ratings — published 1998
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 146,008 ratings — published 2020
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,586 ratings — published 2009
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 72,540 ratings — published 1999
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 137,562 ratings — published 2020
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,123 ratings — published 2005
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 168,538 ratings — published 1999
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 166,127 ratings — published 1959
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,156 ratings — published 2009
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 240,663 ratings — published 2003
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 95,984 ratings — published 2023
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 8,912 ratings — published 2020
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,665 ratings — published 1994
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 99,906 ratings — published 2009
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,865,509 ratings — published 2018
Let the Children March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,081 ratings — published 2018
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,960 ratings — published 2009
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,103 ratings — published 2024
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 264,493 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,135 ratings — published 2016
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,660 ratings — published 2015
“And though not everyone went in, many of us walked in on a Friday and came out ten years later. Some never came back.”
― La película de mi viaje
― La película de mi viaje
“So, a little desperate and surprisingly inspired, I bought a cap. Not just any cap. I picked one with a bright-gold visor, a gold button at the top, a crown of navy blue, an American flag on the left temple, and—on the forehead emblem—a spread-winged eagle over a rising sun and a red-and-green tractor-trailer and the white letters “America— Spirit of Freedom.” On the back, over my cerebellum, was a starred banner in blue, white, red, green, and gold that said “Carnesville, GA Petro.” I put on that hat and disappeared. The glances died like flies. I could sit anywhere, from Carnesville to Tacoma. In Candler, North Carolina, while Ainsworth was outside fuelling the truck, I sat inside in my freedom hat saying “Biscuits and gravy” to a waitress. She went “Oooooo wheeeee” and I thought my cover wasn’t working, but a trucker passing her had slipped his hand between the cheeks of her buttocks, and she did not stop writing.”
― Uncommon Carriers
― Uncommon Carriers
