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Homegoing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 390,619 ratings — published 2016
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,696,177 ratings — published 2007
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,921,592 ratings — published 2014
Marilyn's Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 3.20 — 133 ratings — published 2016
The Fox Wife (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 24,942 ratings — published 2024
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 76,471 ratings — published 2019
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,102,753 ratings — published 2018
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 4,675,081 ratings — published 1813
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 912,714 ratings — published 1878
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,819,914 ratings — published 2005
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 837,956 ratings — published 2020
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 144,574 ratings — published 2017
Emma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 957,837 ratings — published 1815
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,341,016 ratings — published 1956
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 976,998 ratings — published 1939
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 134,290 ratings — published 2015
The Fountains of Silence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 79,876 ratings — published 2019
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 28,955 ratings — published 1987
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 15,190 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 — 4,839 ratings — published 2016
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,436 ratings — published 2014
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 7,053 ratings — published 2008
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 247,389 ratings — published 2016
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-context)
avg rating 4.00 — 126,461 ratings — published 2012
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 943,673 ratings — published 2006
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 94,330 ratings — published 2009
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,341,530 ratings — published 2001
Le sette dinastie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-context)
avg rating 3.69 — 350 ratings — published 2019
El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-context)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,627 ratings — published 2019
The Cicero Trilogy (Cicero, #1-3)
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avg rating 4.65 — 2,414 ratings — published
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 131,249 ratings — published 1981
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 529,871 ratings — published 1984
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 14,117 ratings — published 1951
The Borrowed House (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 825 ratings — published 1975
The Girl the Sea Gave Back (Sky and Sea, #2)
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avg rating 3.57 — 16,534 ratings — published 2019
Sky in the Deep (Sky and Sea, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 70,975 ratings — published 2018
The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 655 ratings — published 1936
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 579 ratings — published 2024
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 485 ratings — published 2007
The Moon Goddess's Smile (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.55 — 11 ratings — published
Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 332 ratings — published 1965
1919 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 2,667 ratings — published 2019
Woman on Fire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 34,972 ratings — published 2022
The Goddess of Warsaw (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 25,477 ratings — published 2024
The Lost Apothecary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 477,024 ratings — published 2021
The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 218 ratings — published
Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 557 ratings — published 2017
The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.38 — 8 ratings — published 1918
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,040 ratings — published 2006
Capitalism & Slavery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,614 ratings — published 1944
“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
