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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.17 avg rating — 3,261,273 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.08 avg rating — 595,060 ratings
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Walden
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3.78 avg rating — 175,703 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.22 avg rating — 82,184 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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3.99 avg rating — 107,962 ratings
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The Prince
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3.83 avg rating — 297,780 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.20 avg rating — 376,030 ratings
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The Histories
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3.98 avg rating — 47,668 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.97 avg rating — 405,186 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.01 avg rating — 13,807 ratings
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Silent Spring
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41,806 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.62 avg rating — 136,937 ratings
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Homage to Catalonia
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4.09 avg rating — 52,832 ratings
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Montaigne: Essays
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4.22 avg rating — 5,313 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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3.90 avg rating — 22,186 ratings
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The Symposium
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4.07 avg rating — 53,541 ratings
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A Room of One's Own
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4.19 avg rating — 158,451 ratings
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Ways of Seeing
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3.90 avg rating — 316,228 ratings
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
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3.73 avg rating — 5,466 ratings
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The Second Sex
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4.15 avg rating — 36,315 ratings
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The Interpretation of Dreams
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3.83 avg rating — 67,830 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.31 avg rating — 25,491 ratings
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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3.92 avg rating — 72,506 ratings
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Rights of Man
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4.02 avg rating — 9,900 ratings
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An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
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4.08 avg rating — 64,555 ratings
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The Medium is the Massage
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3.96 avg rating — 15,299 ratings
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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4.21 avg rating — 21,658 ratings
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The Golden Bough
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4.03 avg rating — 8,394 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.85 avg rating — 17,283 ratings
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On Liberty
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3.97 avg rating — 33,849 ratings
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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3.95 avg rating — 2,953 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
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3.89 avg rating — 14,572 ratings
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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3.53 avg rating — 12,454 ratings
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Leviathan
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3.71 avg rating — 42,525 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.15 avg rating — 161,457 ratings
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
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3.86 avg rating — 10,609 ratings
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Meditations
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4.24 avg rating — 173,614 ratings
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Orientalism
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4.09 avg rating — 21,998 ratings
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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4.14 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
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4.07 avg rating — 111,034 ratings
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The Revenge of Gaia
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3.82 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.29 avg rating — 40,082 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.28 avg rating — 46,684 ratings
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The Innocents Abroad
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3.84 avg rating — 13,330 ratings
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The Book of the City of Ladies
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3.78 avg rating — 3,019 ratings
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Confessions
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3.60 avg rating — 8,371 ratings
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
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3.86 avg rating — 5,249 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
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3.86 avg rating — 25,908 ratings
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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4.19 avg rating — 32,610 ratings
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The Periodic Table
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4.14 avg rating — 14,662 ratings
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Mythologies
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4.09 avg rating — 14,510 ratings
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De Profundis
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4.20 avg rating — 15,054 ratings
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Eminent Victorians
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3.75 avg rating — 2,213 ratings
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Critique of Pure Reason
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3.96 avg rating — 31,754 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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4.36 avg rating — 10,930 ratings
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
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3.98 avg rating — 11,806 ratings
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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4.13 avg rating — 7,466 ratings
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The Female Eunuch
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3.70 avg rating — 6,580 ratings
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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4.06 avg rating — 129,139 ratings
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The Shock of the New
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3.73 avg rating — 32,896 ratings
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The Lives of the Artists
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3.76 avg rating — 29,144 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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4.19 avg rating — 50,660 ratings
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
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4.28 avg rating — 6,082 ratings
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Shah of Shahs
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4.24 avg rating — 5,965 ratings
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Dispatches
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4.22 avg rating — 18,020 ratings
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News of a Kidnapping
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Speak, Memory
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The Making of the English Working Class
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Letters Concerning the English Nation
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3.70 avg rating — 2,373 ratings
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The Travels of Ibn Battuta: in the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
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3.91 avg rating — 2,041 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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4.25 avg rating — 18,284 ratings
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A Time of Gifts
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4.06 avg rating — 7,378 ratings
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The Lives of the Poets
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An Image of Africa
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3.95 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.23 avg rating — 28,835 ratings
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Meditations on First Philosophy
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3.73 avg rating — 22,911 ratings
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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3.97 avg rating — 5,378 ratings
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The History of England
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3.97 avg rating — 241 ratings
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On Suicide
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Venice
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Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
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Bad Blood
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3.56 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
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The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
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3.95 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Story of Art
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3.95 avg rating — 367,898 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 24,837 ratings
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Praise of Folly
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3.87 avg rating — 15,811 ratings
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The Phenomenology of Mind
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3.95 avg rating — 16,800 ratings
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The Romantic Generation
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4.34 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Character of Physical Law
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4.30 avg rating — 6,766 ratings
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
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4.19 avg rating — 2,606 ratings
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Letters to a Young Novelist
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3.86 avg rating — 3,173 ratings
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The Journalist and the Murderer
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3.80 avg rating — 4,045 ratings
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The Rings of Saturn
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4.24 avg rating — 12,649 ratings
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China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society
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4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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4.22 avg rating — 2,205 ratings
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Walden
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3.78 avg rating — 175,703 ratings
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Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
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3.88 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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4.19 avg rating — 50,660 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
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4.28 avg rating — 21,905 ratings
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I don't suppose it's surprising that a British journal would focus on sources about Britain, but I don't quite see why there are so many 'crime' books.
I'd tend to delete the crime books, and add Myths that Cause Crime; The Mismeasure of Man; The Nazi Doctors; Hiroshima-shi, Nagasaki-shi; Nehru's Letters to His Daughter; etc, etc.
Of course, ultimately, you can't limit significant books by any arbitrary metric. There will always be other candidates for deletion/addition.