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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 797,088 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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4.14 avg rating — 437,643 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
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4.17 avg rating — 97,960 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 990,621 ratings
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Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
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3.80 avg rating — 702 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,235,628 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 159,839 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.23 avg rating — 82,853 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
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4.09 avg rating — 66,019 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 — 218,011 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
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4.10 avg rating — 54,444 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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4.25 avg rating — 66,048 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 — 36,882 ratings
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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4.44 avg rating — 8,885 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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4.04 avg rating — 8,491 ratings
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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3.86 avg rating — 72,567 ratings
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
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4.11 avg rating — 17,282 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 — 357,960 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 98,113 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 81,576 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.15 avg rating — 23,884 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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4.02 avg rating — 21,341 ratings
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
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3.85 avg rating — 17,173 ratings
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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
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3.88 avg rating — 2,203 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.06 avg rating — 79,665 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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4.31 avg rating — 766 ratings
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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4.26 avg rating — 15,945 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 113,005 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 55,748 ratings
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
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3.82 avg rating — 13,842 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 19,459 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 122,541 ratings
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The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion
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4.08 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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4.17 avg rating — 47,618 ratings
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
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4.27 avg rating — 11,618 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.87 avg rating — 34,980 ratings
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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4.13 avg rating — 22,808 ratings
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
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4.25 avg rating — 23,295 ratings
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The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
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3.91 avg rating — 742 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 115,418 ratings
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
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3.89 avg rating — 24,305 ratings
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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4.09 avg rating — 16,757 ratings
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
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4.37 avg rating — 12,864 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 112,989 ratings
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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4.23 avg rating — 20,731 ratings
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
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4.22 avg rating — 6,049 ratings
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
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4.03 avg rating — 4,096 ratings
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The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
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4.05 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
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4.43 avg rating — 100,410 ratings
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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4.53 avg rating — 11,602 ratings
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
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4.04 avg rating — 2,177 ratings
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The Best We Could Do
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4.35 avg rating — 39,733 ratings
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Janesville: An American Story
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4.09 avg rating — 7,583 ratings
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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4.21 avg rating — 46,644 ratings
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
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4.07 avg rating — 6,405 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
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4.13 avg rating — 6,443 ratings
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Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
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3.99 avg rating — 868 ratings
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¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers
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4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
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3.91 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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4.72 avg rating — 43,575 ratings
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Crown of Blood
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4.01 avg rating — 1,544 ratings
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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4.15 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
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Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
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4.28 avg rating — 6,256 ratings
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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
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4.40 avg rating — 19,594 ratings
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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
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3.64 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
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3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure
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3.77 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
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4.06 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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4.16 avg rating — 31,653 ratings
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Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
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4.15 avg rating — 18,768 ratings
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The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal: the Ill-Fated British and Russian Royal Alliance
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3.76 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
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3.75 avg rating — 1,965 ratings
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
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3.47 avg rating — 14,987 ratings
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An Edible History of Humanity
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3.76 avg rating — 6,131 ratings
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When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
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3.92 avg rating — 8,522 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 107,929 ratings
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The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World (3) (Politics of Place)
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4.01 avg rating — 6,639 ratings
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Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
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4.31 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
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4.48 avg rating — 10,745 ratings
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
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4.40 avg rating — 15,695 ratings
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
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3.87 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 112,294 ratings
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You Will Not Have My Hate
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4.31 avg rating — 9,700 ratings
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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3.66 avg rating — 2,122 ratings
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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
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4.35 avg rating — 1,156 ratings
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The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing ANZACS
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4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
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4.12 avg rating — 17,757 ratings
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Hostage
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4.09 avg rating — 8,812 ratings
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
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4.30 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing
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4.24 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ
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4.07 avg rating — 2,522 ratings
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
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4.07 avg rating — 8,577 ratings
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
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3.82 avg rating — 1,935 ratings
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Horizon
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4.17 avg rating — 1,924 ratings
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On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
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4.59 avg rating — 7,575 ratings
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Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth
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3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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1956: the year Australia welcomed the world
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3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
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4.30 avg rating — 7,306 ratings
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The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
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3.86 avg rating — 4,279 ratings
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Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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