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127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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Life of Pi
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I Am Her... (I Am Her..., #1)
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Sarah Ann Walker (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 842 ratings
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All Who Believed: A Memoir of Life in the Twelve Tribes
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4.43 avg rating — 87 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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Nathaniel Philbrick (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 117,540 ratings
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Touching the Void
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4.23 avg rating — 63,898 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea
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Sebastian Junger (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 118,447 ratings
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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Dave Pelzer (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 457,981 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 81,458 ratings
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
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My Lobotomy: A Memoir
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What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
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Eric A. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
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3.71 avg rating — 19,806 ratings
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
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3.95 avg rating — 31,496 ratings
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Rage of Angels
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Escape
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All She Wanted
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Aphrodite Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,410 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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On the Beach
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The Book of Job (Pocket Canon)
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4.21 avg rating — 4,592 ratings
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Burnt
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Ian Colquhoun (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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When I Fell From the Sky
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Revelation Mysteries Decoded - Unlocking the Secrets of the Coming Apocalypse
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Robert Rite (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Quit or Die Trying
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Alison Beard (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
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Buddy Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 3,657 ratings
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My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk about Slavery: Personal Accounts of Slavery in North Carolina
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Belinda Hurmence (Editor)
4.25 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Candide
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3.76 avg rating — 298,130 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
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4.38 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
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Beyond the Wave: a Tsunami Survivor's Story
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3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Birthday Boys
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From a Clear Blue Sky
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4.28 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World
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4.19 avg rating — 8,329 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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3.98 avg rating — 76,853 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 53,391 ratings
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An Evil Cradling
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4.36 avg rating — 2,540 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
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4.02 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival
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4.29 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 272,574 ratings
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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
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4.11 avg rating — 4,465 ratings
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Autobiography of a Face
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3.97 avg rating — 29,850 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 160,347 ratings
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Cursed from Birth
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4.08 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran
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Marina Nemat (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 14,435 ratings
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We Are On Our Own
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3.85 avg rating — 1,241 ratings
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Jamrach's Menagerie
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3.58 avg rating — 8,047 ratings
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Heart of Fire: One Girl's Extraordinary Journey from Child Soldier to Soul Singer
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3.72 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Pincher Martin
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3.55 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
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3.49 avg rating — 632 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
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4.33 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Diver
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4.32 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 71,366 ratings
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Warning, The Story of Cyclone Tracy
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3.45 avg rating — 85 ratings
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White Butterflies
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4.43 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Hell Ship
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