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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 592,716 ratings — published 1997
Human Acts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 92,148 ratings — published 2014
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,760 ratings — published 2019
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-events)
avg rating 4.21 — 384,987 ratings — published 2010
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 13,531 ratings — published 2005
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as real-events)
avg rating 4.72 — 50,780 ratings — published 2019
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,595 ratings — published 1997
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-events)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,682 ratings — published 1970
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,332 ratings — published 2015
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 210,325 ratings — published 2007
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 784,962 ratings — published 2003
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 125,741 ratings — published 1994
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,987 ratings — published 2009
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 16,034 ratings — published 2019
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 345,335 ratings — published 2017
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 153,606 ratings — published 2025
The Frontiersmen: A Narrative (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 139 ratings — published
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,341,898 ratings — published 1947
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,782 ratings — published 1998
Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist's Guide to Investigative Reporting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 283 ratings — published 2021
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.14 — 227,632 ratings — published 2024
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,419 ratings — published 2018
The Vaster Wilds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 3.75 — 46,613 ratings — published 2023
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 3.91 — 88,899 ratings — published 2021
We Do Not Part (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 3.84 — 41,852 ratings — published 2025
How War Begins: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Invasion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 452 ratings — published 2022
The Mueller Report: Graphic Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 243 ratings — published
Ghosts of Hiroshima (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,950 ratings — published 2025
The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,298 ratings — published
Book Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 23,386 ratings — published 2019
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,072 ratings — published 2025
Survivors of the Holocaust: (A Graphic Novel)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,196 ratings — published 2019
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,692 ratings — published 2017
The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,327 ratings — published 2018
The Roles We Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,179 ratings — published 2021
Music of the Ghosts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,271 ratings — published 2017
The Paris Express (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 15,096 ratings — published 2025
Insectopolis: A Natural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,021 ratings — published 2025
From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 713 ratings — published 2019
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 2,064 ratings — published 2022
Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 684 ratings — published 2019
Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 246 ratings — published 2024
Breadcrumbs: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Poland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 1,029 ratings — published 2025
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,986 ratings — published 2021
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 17,108 ratings — published 2024
Awaking from the Sleep of Heedlessness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 4.21 — 214 ratings — published 1992
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 8,983 ratings — published 2015
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 1,153 ratings — published 2020
Bloodline (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as real-events)
avg rating 3.88 — 34,728 ratings — published 2021
