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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
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4.07 avg rating — 10,276 ratings
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The Princess Spy
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
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3.73 avg rating — 1,131 ratings
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Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” – Nellie Bly and the Women Who Changed Journalism Forever
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3.84 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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3.78 avg rating — 3,297 ratings
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When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
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4.38 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
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4.40 avg rating — 5,958 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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3.78 avg rating — 7,592 ratings
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
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4.29 avg rating — 45,253 ratings
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
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4.50 avg rating — 8,124 ratings
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
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4.38 avg rating — 11,263 ratings
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How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
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4.08 avg rating — 5,038 ratings
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The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
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4.12 avg rating — 4,706 ratings
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Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
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4.30 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
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4.23 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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4.69 avg rating — 42,182 ratings
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London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City
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4.07 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
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4.31 avg rating — 6,975 ratings
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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
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4.31 avg rating — 3,273 ratings
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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3.74 avg rating — 2,853 ratings
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
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4.24 avg rating — 15,081 ratings
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Titanic: Why She Collided, Why She Sank, Why She Should Never Have Sailed
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4.19 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
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3.76 avg rating — 3,634 ratings
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The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
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3.94 avg rating — 436 ratings
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
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4.31 avg rating — 5,534 ratings
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The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
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3.81 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
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4.24 avg rating — 6,471 ratings
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The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
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3.63 avg rating — 1,846 ratings
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Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
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3.97 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Lincoln In Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President
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4.12 avg rating — 428 ratings
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The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
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3.79 avg rating — 331 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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4.61 avg rating — 25,782 ratings
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The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
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3.93 avg rating — 716 ratings
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
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3.87 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Banks
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
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3.84 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
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Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
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4.07 avg rating — 544 ratings
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The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
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4.14 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
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For The Kings of Lahore: The Sikh Empire Through French Eyes
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Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
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3.86 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution
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4.05 avg rating — 240 ratings
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On Our Doorstep: When Australia Faced the Threat of Invasion by the Japanese
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3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
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4.20 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
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4.33 avg rating — 934 ratings
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The Library: A Fragile History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother
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Craft: An American History
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3.84 avg rating — 282 ratings
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The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist
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3.62 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
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4.02 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
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4.15 avg rating — 3,987 ratings
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Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
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4.05 avg rating — 1,593 ratings
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You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
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4.38 avg rating — 170 ratings
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
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3.70 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
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Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
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4.01 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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Themistocles: The Powerbroker of Athens
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Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
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Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
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Watergate: A New History
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The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science
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Cuba: An American History
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The Gods of the Greeks
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
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The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen
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4.03 avg rating — 871 ratings
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Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
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4.51 avg rating — 10,389 ratings
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Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
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The Great War‘s Sideshow: War and Peace in the Balkans, 1914-1920
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The Pursuit of Europe: A History
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Philip Roth: The Biography
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Capitals, Aristocrats, and Cougars: Victoria's Hockey Professionals, 1911-1926
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One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation
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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
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Early Medieval Britain, c. 500–1000 (Cambridge History of Britain, Series Number 1)
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Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
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4.23 avg rating — 10,250 ratings
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Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
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Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers
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The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England (Washington Mews Books)
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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
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Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
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Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
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