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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised and Expanded Edition)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 527 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 74,631 ratings — published 2005
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 460 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,246 ratings — published 1947
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The Omnivore's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 427 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,969 ratings — published 2006
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich (shelved 407 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.58 — 46,396 ratings — published 2001
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (shelved 400 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,038 ratings — published 2003
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Blink (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 389 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 36,107 ratings — published 2005
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Fast Food Nation (Paperback)
by Eric Schlosser (shelved 384 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 57,129 ratings — published 2001
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The Tipping Point (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 368 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 62,575 ratings — published 2000
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Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 364 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 86,368 ratings — published 1996
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 352 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 151,744 ratings — published 2006
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (shelved 331 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,510 ratings — published 2006
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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 327 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 137,883 ratings — published 2000
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Night
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 311 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 59,507 ratings — published 1958
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Guns, Germs, and Steel (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 294 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,806 ratings — published 1997
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 294 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 29,257 ratings — published 2007
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In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by Truman Capote (shelved 293 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,918 ratings — published 1965
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (shelved 281 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,078 ratings — published 2003
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Jeannette Walls (shelved 274 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 77,456 ratings — published 2005
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Under the Banner of Heaven (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 271 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,241 ratings — published 2003
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Paperback)
by Lynne Truss (shelved 266 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,463 ratings — published 2003
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 258 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 54,334 ratings — published 1997
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) (shelved 257 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.40 — 27,503 ratings — published 2003
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 236 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 21,433 ratings — published 2007
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 234 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 23,894 ratings — published 1997
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Outliers (Hardcover)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 233 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,080 ratings — published 2008
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 214 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,036 ratings — published 2003
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 210 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 9,882 ratings — published 1998
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 205 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 36,814 ratings — published 2004
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 202 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.47 — 50,963 ratings — published 2002
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by Barack Obama (shelved 200 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,317 ratings — published 2006
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Angela's Ashes (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 199 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,865 ratings — published 1996
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by Mitch Albom (shelved 192 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,566 ratings — published 1997
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by John Berendt (shelved 191 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 19,970 ratings — published 1994
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn (shelved 190 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,800 ratings — published 1980
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On Writing (Mass Market Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 187 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,910 ratings — published 2000
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Naked (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 181 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 59,268 ratings — published 1997
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition)
by Anthony Bourdain (shelved 170 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,639 ratings — published 2000
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The Last Lecture (Hardcover)
by Randy Pausch (shelved 167 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 33,059 ratings — published 2008
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Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by John Grogan (shelved 167 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 36,085 ratings — published 2005
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Dreams from My Father (Paperback)
by Barack Obama (shelved 165 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,039 ratings — published 1995
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by Dave Eggers (shelved 165 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.58 — 55,172 ratings — published 2000
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by David Sedaris (shelved 163 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,538 ratings — published 2008
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The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by Joan Didion (shelved 162 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 20,092 ratings — published 2005
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Paperback)
by Anne Lamott (shelved 158 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,462 ratings — published 1994
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Assassination Vacation (Paperback)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 154 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,767 ratings — published 2005
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (shelved 154 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,191 ratings — published 2008
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver W. Sacks (shelved 145 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,466 ratings — published 1985
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The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by Alan Weisman (shelved 144 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,718 ratings — published 2007
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover)
by Julie Powell (shelved 144 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.36 — 13,555 ratings — published 2005
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by James W. Loewen (shelved 136 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,109 ratings — published 1992
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