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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.26 — 583,481 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,306,831 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,286,589 ratings — published 1947
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,214,045 ratings — published 1996
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.09 — 747,776 ratings — published 1966
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,381,593 ratings — published 2011
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 286,707 ratings — published 2018
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,871 ratings — published 2001
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.04 — 468,037 ratings — published 1997
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.14 — 463,195 ratings — published 2017
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.40 — 66,609 ratings — published 1997
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,530 ratings — published 1990
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 431,657 ratings — published 2003
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,593 ratings — published 1989
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 821,528 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 — 73,152 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.37 — 919,428 ratings — published 1946
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 488,966 ratings — published 1988
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,395 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,793 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 — 238,178 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 — 775,485 ratings — published 2003
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,760 ratings — published 1973
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.51 — 40,589 ratings — published 1983
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.01 — 229,849 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 — 68,963 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,937,374 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 — 195,236 ratings — published 2016
To søstre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,655 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 — 634,477 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.95 — 159,190 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.06 — 246,068 ratings — published 2003
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,392,230 ratings — published 1956
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,828 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 — 453,926 ratings — published 1998
Introduction to Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.77 — 490 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 — 185,040 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 — 205,280 ratings — published 2018
Gomorrah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,441 ratings — published 2006
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.12 — 452,648 ratings — published 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.13 — 165,970 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 175,506 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 — 120,211 ratings — published 1997
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.07 — 882,035 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 — 482,449 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.46 — 103,229 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.19 — 883,151 ratings — published 2008
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,280 ratings — published 2009
Directing the Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.21 — 339 ratings — published 1987
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as documentary)
avg rating 4.01 — 907,138 ratings — published 2005
“I recently made my directorial debut in the category of duck documentary—in GIF format. I hope viewers don’t think my cinematic masterpiece goes on too long, because the extended version comes in at just over six seconds—which might be pushing the limits of modern attention spans.”
― Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
― Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“i’m a displaced person on my way home,
in search for my home,
retracing bits of past,
looking for some recognisable traces of my past.”
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in search for my home,
retracing bits of past,
looking for some recognisable traces of my past.”
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