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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.27 — 593,682 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,337,216 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,347,493 ratings — published 1947
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,229,441 ratings — published 1996
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.09 — 759,648 ratings — published 1966
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,396,904 ratings — published 2011
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 292,287 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,001 ratings — published 1997
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 207,071 ratings — published 2001
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.14 — 473,930 ratings — published 2017
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,690 ratings — published 1997
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.36 — 946,421 ratings — published 1946
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,762 ratings — published 1990
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 437,579 ratings — published 2003
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,878 ratings — published 1989
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.14 — 832,059 ratings — published 2010
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,887 ratings — published 2012
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 495,327 ratings — published 1988
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,031 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,661 ratings — published 2006
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 240,825 ratings — published 2009
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.00 — 786,003 ratings — published 2003
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,373 ratings — published 1973
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,559 ratings — published 1983
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.01 — 232,643 ratings — published 2003
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,249 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,989,335 ratings — published 2018
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.15 — 199,737 ratings — published 2016
To søstre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,859 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,544 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,534 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,152 ratings — published 2003
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,408,614 ratings — published 2012
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.29 — 106,129 ratings — published 2009
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.07 — 460,289 ratings — published 1998
Introduction to Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 491 ratings — published 2001
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 199,984 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,620 ratings — published 2018
Gomorrah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,981 ratings — published 2006
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.11 — 459,040 ratings — published 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,529 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,883 ratings — published 1959
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,957 ratings — published 1997
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.07 — 892,952 ratings — published 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.07 — 487,073 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,036 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 893,710 ratings — published 2008
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,746 ratings — published 2009
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,900 ratings — published 1994
Directing the Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 339 ratings — published 1987
“(About the last quote from Camus) Camus says that the society of merchants, looking upon liberty as a “right for themselves” not a “duty toward others”, and this is the remark that I am attracted to: free will and liberty of human beings, further than being their right, is their duty. We say duty toward God…”
― رستاخیز جان
― رستاخیز جان
“Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.”
― Blachart
― Blachart
