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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,858 ratings — published 2003
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,835 ratings — published 2010
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,306 ratings — published 2014
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 431,352 ratings — published 2017
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 158,460 ratings — published 2015
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,069 ratings — published 2015
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,400 ratings — published 2012
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 715,167 ratings — published 1966
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 555,451 ratings — published 1997
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,426 ratings — published 2010
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 720 ratings — published 2018
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 355,240 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,172,887 ratings — published 1996
Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,122 ratings — published 2016
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 20,683 ratings — published 2012
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 191,515 ratings — published 2023
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 290,940 ratings — published 1994
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 153,815 ratings — published 2018
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 120,956 ratings — published 1998
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,241 ratings — published 2010
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 216,472 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 116,797 ratings — published 2000
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 107,892 ratings — published 2009
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 277,846 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.54 — 129,439 ratings — published 2021
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 221,719 ratings — published 2003
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 44,658 ratings — published 2023
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,938 ratings — published 2011
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 121,757 ratings — published 2018
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,564 ratings — published 2009
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 438,745 ratings — published 1998
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 141,186 ratings — published 2020
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 13,871 ratings — published 2005
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 133,377 ratings — published 2020
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 158,085 ratings — published 1959
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,791 ratings — published 2009
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 70,757 ratings — published 1999
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 167,535 ratings — published 1999
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 8,630 ratings — published 2020
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 235,883 ratings — published 2003
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,795,279 ratings — published 2018
Let the Children March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,049 ratings — published 2018
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,060 ratings — published 1994
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,146 ratings — published 2023
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 259,459 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,046 ratings — published 2016
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 10,446 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 97,136 ratings — published 2009
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,082 ratings — published 2009
14 Cows for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as narrative-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,554 ratings — published 2007
“Let's make this earth great again!”
― Mass Awakening
― Mass Awakening
“So, a little desperate and surprisingly inspired, I bought a cap. Not just any cap. I picked one with a bright-gold visor, a gold button at the top, a crown of navy blue, an American flag on the left temple, and—on the forehead emblem—a spread-winged eagle over a rising sun and a red-and-green tractor-trailer and the white letters “America— Spirit of Freedom.” On the back, over my cerebellum, was a starred banner in blue, white, red, green, and gold that said “Carnesville, GA Petro.” I put on that hat and disappeared. The glances died like flies. I could sit anywhere, from Carnesville to Tacoma. In Candler, North Carolina, while Ainsworth was outside fuelling the truck, I sat inside in my freedom hat saying “Biscuits and gravy” to a waitress. She went “Oooooo wheeeee” and I thought my cover wasn’t working, but a trucker passing her had slipped his hand between the cheeks of her buttocks, and she did not stop writing.”
― Uncommon Carriers
― Uncommon Carriers
