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title	author	my rating	shelves	added by	date added
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story	Maraniss, David *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, and-the-winner-is, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/22	view activity »
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration	Wilkerson, Isabel *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, and-the-winner-is, cultural-exploration, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/22	view activity »
Just Mercy about	Stevenson, Bryan	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	to-read, and-the-winner-is, biography-memoir, cultural-exploration, famous-and-infamous, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/22	view activity »
The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's	Grandin, Temple	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, biography-memoir, cultural-exploration, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/22	view activity »
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body	Gay, Roxane *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, biography-memoir, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/22	view activity »
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier	Beah, Ishmael	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, biography-memoir, cultural-exploration, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/22	view activity »
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City	Desmond, Matthew *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, and-the-winner-is, cultural-exploration, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/22	view activity »
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me	Alexie, Sherman	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, biography-memoir, cultural-exploration, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/22	view activity »
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul	Abbott, Karen *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, chicago-connection, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/07	view activity »
The Devil in the White City	Larson, Erik *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, chicago-connection, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/07	view activity »
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood about	Noah, Trevor	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	to-read, biography-memoir, cultural-exploration, famous-and-infamous, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/07	view activity »
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land	Hesse, Monica *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/07	view activity »
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis	Vance, J.D.	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	to-read, biography-memoir, cultural-exploration, true-story, twice-told-tales	Kristen	2017/12/07	view activity »
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women	Moore, Kate *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	to-read, famous-and-infamous, true-story	Kristen	2017/12/07	view activity »
Into the Wild	Krakauer, Jon *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, true-story, wild-about-nature	Kristen	2016/05/31	view activity »
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster	Krakauer, Jon *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, true-story, wild-about-nature	Kristen	2016/05/31	view activity »
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II	Zuckoff, Mitchell *	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, and-the-winner-is, true-story, wild-about-nature	Kristen	2016/05/31	view activity »
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President	Millard, Candice	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, biography-memoir, book-club-reads, true-story	Kristen	2016/01/22	view activity »
Unbroken	Hillenbrand, Laura	1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars	read, biography-memoir, book-club-reads, one-word-titles, true-story	Kristen	2016/01/22	view activity »

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