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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,356,094 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 800,901 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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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 754,747 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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4.38 avg rating — 13,707 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 993,921 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 84,285 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 420,579 ratings
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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3.81 avg rating — 46,764 ratings
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The Complete Maus
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4.58 avg rating — 252,493 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,859,718 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 290,113 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 72,008 ratings
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1776
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4.10 avg rating — 247,380 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 454,939 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 354,673 ratings
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
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4.25 avg rating — 23,666 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.89 avg rating — 219,036 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 68,480 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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3.82 avg rating — 48,767 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 43,989 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,064 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 109,948 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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3.80 avg rating — 52,278 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,162,087 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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4.02 avg rating — 26,401 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.11 avg rating — 517,444 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 91,606 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 380,966 ratings
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John Adams
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4.08 avg rating — 376,918 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 82,273 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,248,362 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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4.09 avg rating — 264,967 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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4.39 avg rating — 359,820 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 199,395 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
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4.22 avg rating — 63,329 ratings
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Schindler’s List
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4.34 avg rating — 165,479 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.23 avg rating — 13,942 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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4.12 avg rating — 9,651 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 124,639 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.87 avg rating — 35,128 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 134,464 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 98,346 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 94,851 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,485 ratings
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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4.17 avg rating — 34,683 ratings
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 88,903 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,775 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 67,575 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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4.07 avg rating — 61,533 ratings
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 115,604 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.06 avg rating — 83,321 ratings
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
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3.25 avg rating — 24,279 ratings
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
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3.67 avg rating — 10,291 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 867,490 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 163,250 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
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4.10 avg rating — 54,599 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 99,039 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,666 ratings
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
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4.25 avg rating — 7,356 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 123,079 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 725,474 ratings
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The Right Stuff
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4.23 avg rating — 55,520 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.02 avg rating — 15,452 ratings
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
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3.86 avg rating — 56,769 ratings
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The Histories
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4.01 avg rating — 55,424 ratings
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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3.74 avg rating — 12,640 ratings
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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4.17 avg rating — 12,637 ratings
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
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3.91 avg rating — 6,259 ratings
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The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 7,643 ratings
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Assassination Vacation
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3.93 avg rating — 47,224 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,933 ratings
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
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3.92 avg rating — 12,052 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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3.75 avg rating — 30,324 ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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4.17 avg rating — 48,958 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 373,085 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 364,771 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 210,095 ratings
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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4.02 avg rating — 7,304 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
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3.87 avg rating — 46,799 ratings
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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3.65 avg rating — 7,146 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 57,169 ratings
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The Cold War: A New History
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3.95 avg rating — 8,339 ratings
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 60,597 ratings
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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4.30 avg rating — 136,204 ratings
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The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 7,414 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.45 avg rating — 1,723,992 ratings
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The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
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4.29 avg rating — 7,832 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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3.95 avg rating — 47,418 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.17 avg rating — 57,893 ratings
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Il mondo di Sofia
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3.97 avg rating — 280,918 ratings
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
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3.85 avg rating — 5,759 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 476,800 ratings
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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
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4.12 avg rating — 6,647 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,471,101 ratings
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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580
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4.30 avg rating — 6,881 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 46,046 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 566,852 ratings
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The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
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4.22 avg rating — 8,418 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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3.97 avg rating — 9,406 ratings
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
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4.11 avg rating — 5,216 ratings
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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England - 2087 ratings, 253 shelved as history
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