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Zeitoun
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4.05 avg rating — 80,061 ratings
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Let the Great World Spin
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3.96 avg rating — 109,848 ratings
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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4.07 avg rating — 132,610 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 102,039 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 232,124 ratings
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The Lacuna
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3.83 avg rating — 74,252 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 109,879 ratings
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Invisible
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3.75 avg rating — 23,197 ratings
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
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3.97 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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A Gate at the Stairs
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3.18 avg rating — 18,826 ratings
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The Good Soldiers
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4.22 avg rating — 8,649 ratings
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The Museum of Innocence
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3.78 avg rating — 37,468 ratings
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Losing Mum and Pup
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3.85 avg rating — 3,051 ratings
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Open
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4.32 avg rating — 145,324 ratings
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Love and Summer
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3.59 avg rating — 4,455 ratings
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The Little Stranger
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3.57 avg rating — 59,478 ratings
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Chronic City
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3.54 avg rating — 9,101 ratings
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Sag Harbor
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3.56 avg rating — 11,613 ratings
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The Case for God
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3.85 avg rating — 9,310 ratings
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Lit
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3.94 avg rating — 28,203 ratings
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American Rust
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3.72 avg rating — 13,428 ratings
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The Anthologist (The Paul Chowder Chronicles #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 4,094 ratings
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Asterios Polyp
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4.22 avg rating — 28,872 ratings
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Half Broke Horses
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4.09 avg rating — 172,870 ratings
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Family Album
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3.46 avg rating — 3,902 ratings
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Too Much Happiness: Stories
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3.83 avg rating — 24,903 ratings
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
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3.83 avg rating — 6,333 ratings
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Await Your Reply
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3.54 avg rating — 16,246 ratings
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
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3.88 avg rating — 9,153 ratings
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The Song Is You
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3.27 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
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Every Man Dies Alone
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4.27 avg rating — 36,573 ratings
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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
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3.62 avg rating — 1,409 ratings
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
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3.95 avg rating — 3,897 ratings
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
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4.04 avg rating — 16,437 ratings
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The Confessions of Edward Day
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3.49 avg rating — 514 ratings
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
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3.34 avg rating — 1,379 ratings
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Don't Cry
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3.63 avg rating — 1,634 ratings
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
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3.51 avg rating — 32,451 ratings
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Ayn Rand and the World She Made
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3.86 avg rating — 1,616 ratings
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Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater
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3.70 avg rating — 5,884 ratings
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
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3.29 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Cheever: A Life
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4.18 avg rating — 734 ratings
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
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4.10 avg rating — 5,355 ratings
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
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3.74 avg rating — 11,062 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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3.97 avg rating — 9,966 ratings
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A Short History of Women
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3.07 avg rating — 3,118 ratings
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
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3.70 avg rating — 6,881 ratings
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My Paper Chase
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3.91 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
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4.28 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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How it Ended
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3.49 avg rating — 971 ratings
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Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
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4.24 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Lark & Termite
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3.44 avg rating — 4,208 ratings
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
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3.75 avg rating — 7,179 ratings
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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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3.48 avg rating — 3,634 ratings
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent
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3.84 avg rating — 7,659 ratings
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Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
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3.64 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
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4.16 avg rating — 5,495 ratings
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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3.91 avg rating — 8,983 ratings
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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
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4.15 avg rating — 8,819 ratings
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The Invention of Air
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3.82 avg rating — 3,296 ratings
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Louis D. Brandeis
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4.03 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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3.66 avg rating — 4,113 ratings
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The Mercy Papers
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3.77 avg rating — 839 ratings
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The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
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4.39 avg rating — 6,160 ratings
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Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
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3.34 avg rating — 282 ratings
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The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
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4.07 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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Amateur Barbarians
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3.26 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Art Student's War
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3.27 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Dearest Creature
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4.03 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
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4.07 avg rating — 2,885 ratings
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Do Not Deny Me
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3.66 avg rating — 404 ratings
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
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4.02 avg rating — 7,470 ratings
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Follow Me
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3.19 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
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4.31 avg rating — 2,555 ratings
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Generosity: An Enhancement
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3.61 avg rating — 2,539 ratings
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Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
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3.36 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Love and Obstacles
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3.84 avg rating — 1,484 ratings
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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3.71 avg rating — 1,555 ratings
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Nothing Right
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3.85 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Once the Shore
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3.97 avg rating — 576 ratings
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One D.O.A., One on the Way
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3.48 avg rating — 464 ratings
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The Sky Below
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3.28 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Typhoon
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3.92 avg rating — 2,633 ratings
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A Village Life
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4.05 avg rating — 2,249 ratings
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The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
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4.03 avg rating — 1,270 ratings
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City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
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3.74 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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Closing Time
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3.57 avg rating — 716 ratings
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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
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4.11 avg rating — 588 ratings
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The Evolution of God
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3.94 avg rating — 8,010 ratings
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
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3.88 avg rating — 821 ratings
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The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11
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3.62 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
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4.26 avg rating — 195 ratings
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In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
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3.74 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
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3.77 avg rating — 492 ratings
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The Lost Child: A Mother's Story
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3.28 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever
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3.24 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
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3.85 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
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Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD
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3.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny
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3.41 avg rating — 358 ratings
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
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4.06 avg rating — 5,623 ratings
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New York Times Ten Best Books of 2009
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In Fiction:
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Chronic City
A Gate at the Stairs
Half Broke Horses
A Short History of Women
In Nonfiction:
The Age of Wonder
The Good Soldiers
LIT: A Memoir
Lords of Finance
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life