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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.21 avg rating — 75,572 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)
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Clean
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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
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4.16 avg rating — 5,329 ratings
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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4.31 avg rating — 18,511 ratings
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Passionate Minds
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David Bodanis (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,123 ratings
score: 99,
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Gomorrah
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3.80 avg rating — 22,206 ratings
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Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons & the Great Pyramids
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3.94 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 55,555 ratings
score: 97,
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
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4.23 avg rating — 788 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,146 ratings
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Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization
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3.74 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
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4.18 avg rating — 3,578 ratings
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George Washington's Sacred Fire
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4.19 avg rating — 819 ratings
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Singled Out
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3.77 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI
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Ryan Smithson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
score: 94,
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
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Hallie Rubenhold (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 2,309 ratings
score: 93,
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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4.25 avg rating — 39,043 ratings
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Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
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3.97 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
score: 92,
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The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection
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3.35 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
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4.20 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
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Amy Chua (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
score: 91,
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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4.37 avg rating — 9,625 ratings
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Hitler's Traitor : Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich
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3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
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4.33 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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3.97 avg rating — 11,656 ratings
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Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
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Lawrence Goldstone (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 918 ratings
score: 86,
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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
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3.99 avg rating — 4,363 ratings
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Disturbances of the Mind
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3.80 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
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3.80 avg rating — 7,223 ratings
score: 83,
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Behind Hitler's Lines: The True Story of the Only Soldier to Fight for Both Amer
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4.21 avg rating — 450 ratings
score: 82,
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A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II
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Lucas Delattre (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 659 ratings
score: 81,
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A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission
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4.32 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Horror In The East: Japan And The Atrocities Of World War II
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4.23 avg rating — 540 ratings
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A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
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Lynne Olson (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
score: 78,
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
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4.05 avg rating — 387 ratings
score: 77,
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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
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Thomas Norman DeWolf (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 222 ratings
score: 76,
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
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Timothy Egan (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 18,042 ratings
score: 75,
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
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4.09 avg rating — 4,865 ratings
score: 74,
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Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
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4.50 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
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4.03 avg rating — 464 ratings
score: 72,
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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4.30 avg rating — 12,395 ratings
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Puritan's Empire: A Catholic Perspective on American History
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4.56 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
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4.47 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
score: 69,
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The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit
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4.33 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
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4.22 avg rating — 5,387 ratings
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The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art
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Tamsin Pickeral (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 66,
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Thirty-Six Years in the White House (Annotated)
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3.82 avg rating — 148 ratings
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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3.96 avg rating — 111,599 ratings
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Geschichte einer Stradivari
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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4.56 avg rating — 13,051 ratings
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