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Homegoing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 418,860 ratings — published 2016
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-context)
avg rating 4.29 — 115,159 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,784,599 ratings — published 2007
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 2,036,084 ratings — published 2014
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 15,502 ratings — published 1951
Marilyn's Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 3.19 — 135 ratings — published 2016
The Fox Wife (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 31,739 ratings — published 2024
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,892 ratings — published 2021
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 83,781 ratings — published 2019
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,291,590 ratings — published 2018
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,932,461 ratings — published 1813
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 953,810 ratings — published 1878
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,708,896 ratings — published 1945
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,941,536 ratings — published 2005
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,645 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 874,618 ratings — published 2020
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 147,015 ratings — published 2017
Emma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,007,870 ratings — published 1815
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 283,796 ratings — published 2011
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,013,879 ratings — published 1939
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 142,322 ratings — published 2015
The Fountains of Silence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 85,275 ratings — published 2019
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,705 ratings — published 1987
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 4.40 — 16,028 ratings — published 1992
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 5,100 ratings — published 2016
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,483 ratings — published 2014
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,192 ratings — published 2008
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 4.35 — 265,062 ratings — published 2016
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 129,988 ratings — published 2012
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 991,166 ratings — published 2006
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 3.92 — 95,227 ratings — published 2009
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,365,859 ratings — published 2001
Christmas at Falstone Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,323 ratings — published 2021
Loving Lieutenant Lancaster (The Lancaster Family, #4)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,023 ratings — published 2018
Romancing Daphne (The Lancaster Family, #3)
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avg rating 4.19 — 7,824 ratings — published 2017
Courting Miss Lancaster (The Lancaster Family #2)
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avg rating 4.04 — 12,428 ratings — published 2010
How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.66 — 178 ratings — published
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,283 ratings — published 2023
Seeking Persephone (The Lancaster Family, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 23,959 ratings — published 2008
Worse than a Lie (Beau Lee Cooper #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 766 ratings — published 2026
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 34,511 ratings — published 2018
The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)
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avg rating 4.00 — 6,094 ratings — published 2023
The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry, #2)
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avg rating 3.97 — 12,855 ratings — published 2019
The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,844 ratings — published 2021
The Star from Calcutta (Perveen Mistry, #5)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,440 ratings — published 2026
Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 193 ratings — published
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.42 — 4,696 ratings — published 2025
The Nepal Nexus: An Inside Account of the Maoists, the Durbar and New Delhi (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 85 ratings — published
The Return (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 16,438 ratings — published 2016
A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke (Las Leonas, #3)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,854 ratings — published 2025
“We must go back to the firm discipline and simplicity of the one-room schoolhouse to find a better education for our children.”
― James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
― James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
