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Gripping Non Fiction Books
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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 — 744,895 ratings — published 2003
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 209,309 ratings — published 2006
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 87,975 ratings — published 1997
China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 380 ratings — published 2006
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 33,878 ratings — published 1973
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 60,610 ratings — published 2005
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 7,569 ratings — published 2019
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 9,487 ratings — published 1985
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 158,470 ratings — published 2015
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 63,443 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 61,991 ratings — published 2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 153,837 ratings — published 2018
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 179,045 ratings — published 2016
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,256 ratings — published 2001
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 121,191 ratings — published 1991
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 57,126 ratings — published 1861
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 18,342 ratings — published 2007
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
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avg rating 4.40 — 19,437 ratings — published 2012
What It Takes: The Way to the White House (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,167 ratings — published 1992
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 206,341 ratings — published 2001
Friday Night Lights (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 65,459 ratings — published 1988
A Civil Action (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 16,915 ratings — published 1995
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 38,582 ratings — published 2015
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 359,369 ratings — published 2015
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 14,359 ratings — published 2012
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 81,117 ratings — published 2010
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 87,857 ratings — published 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 139,083 ratings — published 2003
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 10,918 ratings — published 2002
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 34,680 ratings — published 2011
On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,351 ratings — published 2004
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 5,468 ratings — published 2009
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 104,271 ratings — published 2009
Three Junes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 45,163 ratings — published 2002
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 4,583 ratings — published 2007
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 3,917 ratings — published 2006
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 216,479 ratings — published 2011
The English Patient (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 137,954 ratings — published 1992
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 653,014 ratings — published 1996
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 120,066 ratings — published 1994
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 58,861 ratings — published 2001
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 290,946 ratings — published 1994
The Know-It-All (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 29,550 ratings — published 2004
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 167,538 ratings — published 1999
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 888,980 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 993,445 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 791,868 ratings — published 2010
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,335,444 ratings — published 2005
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 51,853 ratings — published 2002
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 36,656 ratings — published 2007
