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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,478,058 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 411,222 ratings
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To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace
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3.90 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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4.02 avg rating — 21,468 ratings
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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him
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3.77 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Heroes in the Night: Inside the Real Life Superhero Movement
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3.91 avg rating — 86 ratings
"Just for fun"
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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 — 61,597 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.20 avg rating — 88,941 ratings
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Thunderstruck
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3.78 avg rating — 56,363 ratings
"Murder and Marconi!"
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America's Constitution: A Biography
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4.27 avg rating — 1,719 ratings
"This may be a bit dry, but is well thought out and comprehensive"
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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4.22 avg rating — 21,940 ratings
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
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3.82 avg rating — 3,371 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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4.13 avg rating — 134,560 ratings
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The Untold History of the United States, Volume 1: Young Readers Edition, 1898-1945
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3.78 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
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4.34 avg rating — 248,620 ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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4.27 avg rating — 81,101 ratings
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To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of the First World War
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3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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4.16 avg rating — 193,926 ratings
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Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio (Red Crane Literature Series)
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4.34 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Harlem Hellfighters
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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4.19 avg rating — 374,920 ratings
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The Griots of Oakland: Voices from the African American Oral History Project
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4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,352 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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4.20 avg rating — 88,588 ratings
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Unbroken: An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive
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4.53 avg rating — 7,704 ratings
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The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest
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4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
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A Young People's History of the United States
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4.30 avg rating — 1,966 ratings
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
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4.31 avg rating — 2,168 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 93,987 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 895,429 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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4.30 avg rating — 233,166 ratings
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The Closer: My Story
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4.01 avg rating — 3,183 ratings
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Pedro
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 28,761 ratings
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Numbers Don't Lie: Mets: The Biggest Numbers in Mets History
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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