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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Steven D. Levitt
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 275,593 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 146,663 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 33,936 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Laura Hillenbrand
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 136,876 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by
Bill Bryson
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 83,779 ratings
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1776
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David McCullough
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 52,926 ratings
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John Adams
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David McCullough
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 71,678 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 166,162 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 17,099 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Mary Roach (Goodreads Author)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 57,842 ratings
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Derivation Incognita: A Comprehensive Study into the Peopling of America
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Diogenes Vindex
4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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My Country 'Tis of Thee
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Keith Ellison
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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Tom Holland
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 3,746 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Michael Pollan
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 86,179 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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Bill Bryson
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 33,723 ratings
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Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy
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Vincent Michael Palamara
4.9 of 5 stars 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct
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Martha Char Love (Goodreads Author)
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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Jeannette Walls
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 318,853 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 27,810 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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Tom Holland
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,597 ratings
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Bossypants
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Tina Fey
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 218,719 ratings
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Zeitoun
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Dave Eggers
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 32,953 ratings
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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John Heilemann
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 10,711 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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Stephen Greenblatt
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 6,673 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
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Alexandra Fuller
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 23,023 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Charles C. Mann
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 16,808 ratings
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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
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Bart D. Ehrman
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 6,374 ratings
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How to Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs
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Paul Rega (Goodreads Author)
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Happy Divorce: How to turn your divorce into the most brilliant and rewarding opportunity of your life!
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Rossana Condoleo (Goodreads Author)
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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Eric Metaxas
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 12,928 ratings
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The Echo from Dealey Plaza: the True Story of the First African American on the White House Secret Service Detail and His Quest for Justice After the Assassination of JFK
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Abraham Bolden
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
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A.J. Jacobs
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 5,642 ratings
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Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir
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Clint Hill
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
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Bill O'Reilly
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 9,378 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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Michael Lewis
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 30,151 ratings
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Within Arm's Length: The Extraordinary Life and Career of a Special Agent in the United States Secret Service
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Dan Emmett
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 40 ratings
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And the Pursuit of Happiness
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Maira Kalman
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 952 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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Candice Millard
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 10,630 ratings
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Five Days in November
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Clint Hill
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Infidel
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 30,334 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Mary Roach (Goodreads Author)
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 14,957 ratings
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The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
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Gerald Blaine
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 982 ratings
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Just Kids
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Patti Smith
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 39,848 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author)
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 11,039 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la
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Mitchell Zuckoff (Goodreads Author)
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 9,759 ratings
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Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know about Them
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Bart D. Ehrman
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
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Lynne Olson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 282 ratings
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The Bush Tragedy
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Jacob Weisberg
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
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Liza Picard
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Mary Roach (Goodreads Author)
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 13,717 ratings
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Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
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Hampton Sides
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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Dava Sobel
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 11,087 ratings
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Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
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Stephen E. Ambrose
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 3,517 ratings
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
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Neal Bascomb
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
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Ross King
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 3,020 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Walter Isaacson
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 25,846 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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Blaine Harden
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 8,742 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Susan Cain (Goodreads Author)
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 40,996 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Timothy Egan
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 15,461 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 31,130 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Nathaniel Philbrick
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 12,947 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
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Elyn R. Saks
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 3,097 ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
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Daniel Walker Howe
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,877 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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Mindy Kaling
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 66,334 ratings
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The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World
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Manu Bhagavan (Goodreads Author)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Richard Andrew: Called to Paint
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Marian G. Mullet
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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By Men or By the Earth
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Tyler Coulson (Goodreads Author)
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
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Carl Safina (Goodreads Author)
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Control Switch On: The Untold Story Of The Most Powerful Man In The World-Ryan Moran-Who Shaped The Planet For Peace
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Ira Teller (Goodreads Author)
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust
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Lola Rein Kaufman
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
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Roméo Dallaire
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 3,564 ratings
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Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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Felix Alba-Juez (Goodreads Author)
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
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Peter Watson
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 254 ratings
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'Til Death Do Us Part: A story of a lifetime of devotion
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Suzanne Johnson
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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Peter Hessler
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 4,462 ratings
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Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-Destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
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Beth Ward (Goodreads Author)
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Love Me When I'm Gone: The true story of life, love and loss for a Green Beret in post-9/11 war
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Robert Patrick Lewis (Goodreads Author)
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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199 Ways To Improve Your Relationships, Marriage, and Sex Life
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L. B. Sommer (Goodreads Author)
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Fabulosity Is You! A Woman's Guide For Building Her Confidence, Fashion Tips, Weight Loss Tips, Skin Care Secrets, Relationships and Pursuing Her Purpose
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Winsome Campbell-Green (Goodreads Author)
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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In the Shadow of Midnight: Daedalus, A tale of Savannah
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Albert Davenport (Goodreads Author)
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
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Andrew Ross Sorkin
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 9,072 ratings
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The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
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Ann Patchet
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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Stephen Greenblatt
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 3,214 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 20,534 ratings
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A Measure of Danger
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Michael Nicholson
4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Magic Talks: Being a Correspondence Between The Silver Elves and the Founders of The Elf Queen's Daughter's
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Silver Elves (Goodreads Author)
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Perks Of A Positive Attitude: A Practical Guide To Happiness And Success
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Winsome Campbell-Green (Goodreads Author)
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination
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Douglas P. Horne
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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In the Secret Service: The True Story of the Man Who Saved President Reagan's Life
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Jerry Parr
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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First You Write: The Worst Way to Become an Almost Famous Author And The Best Advice I Got While Doing It
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Joni Rodgers (Goodreads Author)
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
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Brian Switek (Goodreads Author)
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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Miguel Ruiz
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 47,170 ratings
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Ten Life Changing Lessons
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Winsome Campbell-Green (Goodreads Author)
4.73 of 5 stars 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Assassin: a terrifying true story
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Christopher Robbins
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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From Difficult to Disturbed: Understanding and Managing Dysfunctional Employees
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Laurence Miller
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Take What You Got And Fly With It
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Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons (Goodreads Author)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
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Judith Flanders
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 885 ratings
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A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart
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Gary Marmorstein
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
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Michael Lewis
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 12,019 ratings
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Saved by Cake
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 213 ratings
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