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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
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4.07 avg rating — 4,643 ratings
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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,279 ratings
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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The Rule of Law
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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3.91 avg rating — 7,507 ratings
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The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
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4.10 avg rating — 4,684 ratings
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
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4.26 avg rating — 8,161 ratings
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Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History
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3.48 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Curfewed Night
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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
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4.07 avg rating — 2,022 ratings
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The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
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3.84 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Pinch
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
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3.96 avg rating — 64,643 ratings
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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
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3.86 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes
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The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
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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 — 119,390 ratings
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Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
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3.83 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
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More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
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4.11 avg rating — 9,834 ratings
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High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
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3.71 avg rating — 252 ratings
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A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
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4.03 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life
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3.67 avg rating — 75 ratings
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What Technology Wants
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Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results
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Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater
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Mr. Peanut
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The Imperfectionists
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Selected Stories
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Human Chain
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