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American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
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What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation
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American Eastern Catholics
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The Art of Teaching
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Russian Lacquer, Legends and Fairy Tales, Volume II
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Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization
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Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
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Russian Lacquer, Legends and Fairy Tales
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The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book
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Kluge
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The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
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The Gnostic Gospels
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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
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Palech, een Russisch sprookje : van icoon tot lakminiatuur
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The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices
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Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry
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How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them
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Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing
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Our Amazing Birds: The Little-Known Facts About Their Private Lives
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
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De glorie van Nederland
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Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World
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Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
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The True History of the Elephant Man
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
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Vincent van Gogh : zijn leven ~ zijn werk
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Survivors; the Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind
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How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
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Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
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De Acropolis in Athene
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Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
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Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
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One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway -- and Its Aftermath
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Blue Highways
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Venetië, Canal Grande
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True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
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De tempels van Agrigento, Sicilië
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The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
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Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America
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If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission
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Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation
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The Age of American Unreason
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How to Survive Anywhere
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De macht van een maîtresse: Hoe passie en politiek de laatste prins fataal werden
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Celestial Geometry: Understanding the Astronomical Meanings of Ancient Sites
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You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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Australië, ontdekking van een continent
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The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
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The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
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Pieces of My Mother: A Memoir
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The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
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Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
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The Tarim Mummies
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Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View
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When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History
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This is a great list. I love non-fiction so will be able to use it as a guide. I don't know how to add a book but would like to reccomend Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin.
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Great list! Some non-fiction is just so utterly boring . . thank you for creating such a wonderful list.
You add books at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."However, if you are the author I believe that is no longer possible; too many authors were abusing the privilege.
I read a ton of non fiction, I have added my limit of 100 books.
@StaceySaid it before and I'll say it again: As you share the same first name with the author, I can't escape the notion that you might be one and the same person?
# 757 The Woman in White and # 797 A Darkness Absolute are both fiction, as are #1014 Still Life, #1027 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and #1089 Murder on the Orient Express.#1181 The Great Gatsby (THE great American NOVEL!!!)
21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)
Agnieszka wrote: "21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)"
Murder on the Orient Express is fiction.
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