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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 786,200 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 832,608 ratings — published 2010
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 474,110 ratings — published 2017
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,564 ratings — published 2015
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,503 ratings — published 2014
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 759,880 ratings — published 1966
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,670 ratings — published 2012
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 593,855 ratings — published 1997
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 244,705 ratings — published 2023
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,101 ratings — published 2015
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 200,219 ratings — published 2018
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,021,205 ratings — published 2010
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 373,042 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,229,653 ratings — published 1996
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 4.35 — 741 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,994 ratings — published 2010
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,402 ratings — published 1994
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 124,892 ratings — published 1998
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 154,448 ratings — published 2021
Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,160 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 — 21,693 ratings — published 2012
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 227,098 ratings — published 2011
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 98,190 ratings — published 2026
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 116,447 ratings — published 2009
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,945 ratings — published 2000
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 292,534 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,996 ratings — published 1959
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 232,691 ratings — published 2003
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,704 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 31 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 54,195 ratings — published 2023
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 128,496 ratings — published 2023
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 145,237 ratings — published 2020
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 83,099 ratings — published 2005
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,763 ratings — published 2018
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 154,640 ratings — published 2020
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,965 ratings — published 2009
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 460,375 ratings — published 1998
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,116 ratings — published 2010
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 171,355 ratings — published 1999
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,813 ratings — published 1999
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,405 ratings — published 2005
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,626 ratings — published 2009
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,228 ratings — published 2003
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,715 ratings — published 2009
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,083 ratings — published 2009
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,830 ratings — published 2024
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 273,435 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,990,216 ratings — published 2018
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,930 ratings — published 1994
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,968 ratings — published 1997
“Let's make this earth great again!”
― Mass Awakening
― Mass Awakening
“I explain in detail why I feel Homicide is better than Suicide in chapter 1,
For every person who has lost their cancer battle, there is someone who has won, Here's my cancer story.
All relationships are gifts and will come to an end, sometimes not like the way we want.”
― My Life is a Soap Opera
For every person who has lost their cancer battle, there is someone who has won, Here's my cancer story.
All relationships are gifts and will come to an end, sometimes not like the way we want.”
― My Life is a Soap Opera
