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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 748,027 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,227,490 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 416,825 ratings — published 2003
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 890,859 ratings — published 2005
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 794,802 ratings — published 2010
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 167,732 ratings — published 1999
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 236,895 ratings — published 2003
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 156,977 ratings — published 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
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avg rating 4.11 — 260,658 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 114,908 ratings — published 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 116,025 ratings — published 2010
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 11,026 ratings — published 2009
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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avg rating 3.86 — 511,478 ratings — published 2011
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 854,450 ratings — published 2008
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 93,580 ratings — published 2011
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 222,592 ratings — published 2003
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 169,216 ratings — published 2010
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 18,570 ratings — published 2004
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 440,439 ratings — published 1998
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 617,944 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 3 times as fun-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,930 ratings — published 2001
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as fun-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 782,970 ratings — published 2016
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 27,273 ratings — published 2024
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 113,095 ratings — published 2021
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 9,685 ratings — published 2022
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 134,293 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 789,119 ratings — published 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 434,875 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 287,909 ratings — published 1965
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 101,701 ratings — published 2019
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 7,524 ratings — published 2016
Becoming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,175,735 ratings — published 2018
Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,425 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 38,133 ratings — published 2016
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 54,923 ratings — published 2019
Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,368 ratings — published 2008
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,809,763 ratings — published 2018
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 12,185 ratings — published 2015
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 193,272 ratings — published 2014
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 367,770 ratings — published 2000
I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined)
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avg rating 3.71 — 12,353 ratings — published 2013
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 324,776 ratings — published 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 574,984 ratings — published 2011
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 55,453 ratings — published 2015
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 189,630 ratings — published 2015
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 23,899 ratings — published 2014
Friday Night Lights (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 65,751 ratings — published 1988
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 73,791 ratings — published 2014
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 39,497 ratings — published 2013
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 213,916 ratings — published 2014
