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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 555,391 ratings
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 87,377 ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
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4.35 avg rating — 156,137 ratings
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,172,811 ratings
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
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Widad Akreyi (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
score: 894,
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Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
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4.30 avg rating — 19,023 ratings
score: 875,
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 355,215 ratings
score: 873,
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 156,488 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 350,470 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 100,322 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 216,453 ratings
score: 733,
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 555,957 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 167,531 ratings
score: 661,
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 290,923 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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4.23 avg rating — 29,603 ratings
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Just Kids
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Patti Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 339,005 ratings
score: 592,
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
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3.51 avg rating — 12,603 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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Greg Mortenson (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 358,296 ratings
score: 582,
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 121,176 ratings
score: 576,
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Shadows of the Workhouse
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4.17 avg rating — 26,982 ratings
score: 575,
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 855,050 ratings
score: 533,
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 120,053 ratings
score: 530,
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 43,465 ratings
score: 522,
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.23 avg rating — 81,927 ratings
score: 507,
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Phenomenology of Spirit
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3.96 avg rating — 20,143 ratings
score: 489,
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
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Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 199,254 ratings
score: 478,
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 616,717 ratings
score: 461,
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
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4.05 avg rating — 3,970 ratings
score: 461,
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A Night to Remember
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4.09 avg rating — 27,984 ratings
score: 454,
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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3.94 avg rating — 67,648 ratings
score: 442,
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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
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4.04 avg rating — 61,682 ratings
score: 437,
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Separate Things: A Memoir
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Ashley Marie Berry (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 400,
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The Two Week Traveller
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Matthew Lightfoot (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 98 ratings
score: 398,
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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Snapshot Systems (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 397,
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The Color of Water
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 132,217 ratings
score: 391,
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 97,744 ratings
score: 379,
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 152,612 ratings
score: 379,
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Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess
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3.86 avg rating — 5,743 ratings
score: 372,
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Bossypants
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3.96 avg rating — 1,045,213 ratings
score: 370,
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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3.80 avg rating — 51,987 ratings
score: 368,
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A Moveable Feast
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4.02 avg rating — 164,080 ratings
score: 364,
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 81,175 ratings
score: 350,
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 194,772 ratings
score: 348,
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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3.89 avg rating — 26,460 ratings
score: 325,
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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Ian Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 26,079 ratings
score: 310,
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The Basque History of the World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,511 ratings
score: 308,
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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3.97 avg rating — 9,330 ratings
score: 306,
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Corners: Voices on Change
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3.68 avg rating — 859 ratings
score: 300,
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Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After
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3.97 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 300,
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Pack Your Bags and Get Out!
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3.59 avg rating — 949 ratings
score: 298,
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Three hundred & Thirty-Three Twisted Tongue Twisters
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Byron L. Reeder (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 298,
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Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir
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Angie Cavallari (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 513 ratings
score: 297,
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The Cases That Haunt Us
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3.98 avg rating — 16,568 ratings
score: 295,
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 62,269 ratings
score: 295,
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Bring on the Empty Horses
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4.13 avg rating — 3,352 ratings
score: 291,
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Susannah Cahalan (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 234,486 ratings
score: 291,
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Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love
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4.06 avg rating — 13,106 ratings
score: 283,
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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3.78 avg rating — 20,212 ratings
score: 281,
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Slaves in the Family
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4.04 avg rating — 3,028 ratings
score: 280,
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One Child
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4.27 avg rating — 15,821 ratings
score: 279,
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
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Bill Dedman (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 39,396 ratings
score: 277,
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 614,744 ratings
score: 273,
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 55,471 ratings
score: 272,
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 83,189 ratings
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The Things They Carried
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4.14 avg rating — 339,332 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 448,137 ratings
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
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4.21 avg rating — 22,464 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 851,067 ratings
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Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
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3.54 avg rating — 8,125 ratings
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Somebody Else's Kids
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4.28 avg rating — 7,125 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.35 avg rating — 52,918 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 470,199 ratings
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Testament of Youth
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4.11 avg rating — 12,267 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
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3.99 avg rating — 17,368 ratings
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Down Under
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4.08 avg rating — 119,872 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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4.30 avg rating — 572,318 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.34 avg rating — 159,930 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 39,813 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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4.10 avg rating — 25,033 ratings
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Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
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Helen Rappaport (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 24,204 ratings
score: 227,
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Timothy Egan (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 60,600 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 158,432 ratings
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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4.14 avg rating — 11,836 ratings
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Vagabonds in France
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3.82 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Poems from a Runaway
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Ben Westwood (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
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David A. Taylor (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College
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4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
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You Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral
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4.01 avg rating — 326 ratings
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No Pianos, Pets or Foreigners! My Life in Japan in the 80's
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Joe Palermo (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 97 ratings
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ELIS: Irish call girl
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Anna Rajmon (Goodreads Author)
4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Letters, 1925-1975
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3.93 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Snapshots (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books)
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Matthew Lightfoot (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives
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Heather Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 1,601 ratings
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Spy for nobody
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Basel Saneeb (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 65 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird seems to have been removed already. Which other titles (name and number) are fiction?

ETA: Also removed I, Claudius - which is a first-rate novel, but a novel still.

To Kill a Mockingbird seems to have been removed already. Which other titles (name and number) are fiction?"
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