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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,307,143 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,012,091 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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4.05 avg rating — 85,680 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 821,652 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 99,720 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.25 avg rating — 88,686 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 109,016 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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4.39 avg rating — 368,621 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 — 463,333 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 124,888 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.90 avg rating — 224,520 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 115,802 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.88 avg rating — 35,891 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
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4.10 avg rating — 55,547 ratings
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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3.86 avg rating — 73,740 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
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4.18 avg rating — 100,393 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 21,433 ratings
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
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4.06 avg rating — 109,595 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.15 avg rating — 195,313 ratings
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
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4.25 avg rating — 25,201 ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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4.16 avg rating — 51,159 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.17 avg rating — 85,491 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 — 70,303 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.18 avg rating — 293,424 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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4.34 avg rating — 57,950 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 165,997 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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4.15 avg rating — 24,445 ratings
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
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3.26 avg rating — 24,948 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.24 avg rating — 14,702 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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4.29 avg rating — 115,837 ratings
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
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3.89 avg rating — 24,822 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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3.73 avg rating — 32,374 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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4.03 avg rating — 22,317 ratings
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The Romanovs, 1613-1918
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4.02 avg rating — 16,834 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.02 avg rating — 37,969 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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4.05 avg rating — 43,999 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.95 avg rating — 20,832 ratings
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
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3.85 avg rating — 17,620 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 117,245 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 — 120,668 ratings
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
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4.19 avg rating — 9,562 ratings
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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3.77 avg rating — 17,494 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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4.21 avg rating — 27,963 ratings
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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4.09 avg rating — 17,255 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,906 ratings
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