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The Wright Brothers
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4.18 avg rating — 99,646 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 84,284 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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4.31 avg rating — 69,582 ratings
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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4.21 avg rating — 47,064 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 77,800 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 204,984 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 77,024 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.24 avg rating — 87,257 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 75,151 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
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4.25 avg rating — 69,115 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 75,618 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 120,619 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 62,789 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 108,674 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 70,664 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
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4.22 avg rating — 202,738 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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4.07 avg rating — 85,433 ratings
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 61,653 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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4.05 avg rating — 151,792 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
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4.10 avg rating — 55,195 ratings
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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4.30 avg rating — 140,237 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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4.52 avg rating — 164,476 ratings
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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3.87 avg rating — 65,616 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 191,549 ratings
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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4.06 avg rating — 70,153 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: The Story of an American Slave
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4.13 avg rating — 136,874 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 47,077 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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4.09 avg rating — 69,699 ratings
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The Complete Maus
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4.58 avg rating — 258,930 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 114,977 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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4.29 avg rating — 113,047 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 116,020 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 118,755 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 82,627 ratings
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Papillon
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4.23 avg rating — 76,539 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 125,815 ratings
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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4.30 avg rating — 60,452 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 176,956 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 95,324 ratings
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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4.21 avg rating — 83,772 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 169,196 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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4.05 avg rating — 43,657 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,288,712 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 164,207 ratings
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All the President’s Men
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4.18 avg rating — 58,437 ratings
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Lincoln
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4.20 avg rating — 48,954 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 99,255 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 814,747 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 73,313 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 294,795 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 101,750 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.05 avg rating — 83,943 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 125,750 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 73,648 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 227,926 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 79,457 ratings
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Grant
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4.50 avg rating — 44,977 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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4.14 avg rating — 456,432 ratings
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The Right Stuff
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4.23 avg rating — 56,127 ratings
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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 — 119,186 ratings
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His Excellency: George Washington
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3.96 avg rating — 43,538 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.50 avg rating — 48,718 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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4.26 avg rating — 40,157 ratings
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Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 51,443 ratings
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The Civil War: A Narrative
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4.53 avg rating — 8,121 ratings
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