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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 447,944 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 77,833 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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4.25 avg rating — 65,056 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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4.36 avg rating — 36,442 ratings
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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4.42 avg rating — 23,796 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 83,162 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 555,166 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 111,924 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 290,824 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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4.09 avg rating — 4,635 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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4.03 avg rating — 40,425 ratings
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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4.31 avg rating — 18,451 ratings
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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4.11 avg rating — 3,556 ratings
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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4.19 avg rating — 15,530 ratings
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
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4.16 avg rating — 3,695 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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4.38 avg rating — 13,477 ratings
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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4.16 avg rating — 8,544 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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4.24 avg rating — 4,244 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 51,877 ratings
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Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,081 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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4.40 avg rating — 15,853 ratings
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Gulag: A History
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4.28 avg rating — 12,962 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.10 avg rating — 101,362 ratings
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On Human Nature
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4.14 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,257 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,028 ratings
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The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
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4.05 avg rating — 3,193 ratings
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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4.08 avg rating — 29,230 ratings
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
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3.61 avg rating — 3,408 ratings
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
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4.08 avg rating — 2,390 ratings
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Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
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3.90 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
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4.30 avg rating — 5,980 ratings
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Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10)
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4.29 avg rating — 953 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,134 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,308 ratings
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The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, #11)
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4.36 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
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4.24 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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3.69 avg rating — 182,964 ratings
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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals
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3.93 avg rating — 819 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.87 avg rating — 34,660 ratings
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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4.25 avg rating — 8,742 ratings
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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3.89 avg rating — 32,452 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
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4.12 avg rating — 9,295 ratings
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
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4.24 avg rating — 1,625 ratings
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Endless Enemies
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4.15 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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3.98 avg rating — 115,359 ratings
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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4.32 avg rating — 2,736 ratings
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
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4.35 avg rating — 2,533 ratings
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Children of Crisis, Volume 2: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers
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4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Children of Crisis, Volume 3: South Goes North
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Denial of Death
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4.05 avg rating — 15,356 ratings
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
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4.15 avg rating — 5,468 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,053 ratings
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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4.24 avg rating — 12,450 ratings
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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4.10 avg rating — 15,751 ratings
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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4.09 avg rating — 7,822 ratings
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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Ants
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4.60 avg rating — 836 ratings
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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
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3.92 avg rating — 293 ratings
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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4.26 avg rating — 10,913 ratings
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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4.21 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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3.86 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,179 ratings
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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4.15 avg rating — 5,058 ratings
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Looking for a Ship
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4.16 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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4.44 avg rating — 12,161 ratings
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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4.26 avg rating — 5,236 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,179 ratings
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Pinckney's Treaty
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3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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4.36 avg rating — 14,644 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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4.17 avg rating — 9,836 ratings
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History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893
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3.86 avg rating — 247 ratings
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A History of the United States: The War for Southern Independence 1849-1865 Vol VI
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
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4.04 avg rating — 566 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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The Fate of the Earth
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Terrorists & Novelists
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
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4.08 avg rating — 1,863 ratings
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
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4.21 avg rating — 4,070 ratings
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
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3.86 avg rating — 1,291 ratings
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Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge
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3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Conversations With the Enemy: The Story of PFC Robert Garwood
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
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4.17 avg rating — 1,386 ratings
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Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era; Fiction
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4.32 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Evolution of God
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3.94 avg rating — 7,950 ratings
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
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4.30 avg rating — 4,783 ratings
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
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4.47 avg rating — 4,040 ratings
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
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4.14 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
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4.08 avg rating — 731 ratings
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Why Survive?: Being Old in America
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3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir
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3.85 avg rating — 1,779 ratings
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Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
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3.83 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
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4.05 avg rating — 831 ratings
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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
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4.06 avg rating — 2,939 ratings
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Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
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4.12 avg rating — 1,400 ratings
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The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
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3.90 avg rating — 447 ratings
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So Human an Animal: How We are Shaped by Surroundings and Events
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3.92 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
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4.08 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
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4.27 avg rating — 4,008 ratings
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