Truth is Stranger than Fiction Library Display
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities 3.99 avg rating — 90,423 ratings
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Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
by:
Jennifer Worth
4.19 avg rating — 77,384 ratings 
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Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by:
Mara Leveritt
4.16 avg rating — 12,417 ratings 11. 
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,613 ratings
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
by:
Robert Morgan
3.83 avg rating — 681 ratings 
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
by:
Michio Kaku
4.21 avg rating — 22,367 ratings 19. 
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
by:
Charlotte Gordon
4.22 avg rating — 7,201 ratings 
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,464 ratings 27. 
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,932 ratings 27. 
Shark Arm: A Shark, A Tattooed Arm and Two Unsolved Murders
by:
Phillip Roope
3.68 avg rating — 122 ratings 
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by:
Tony Horwitz
3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings 34. 
The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
by:
Rick Beyer
3.79 avg rating — 1,399 ratings 35. 
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A Short History of Nuclear Folly: Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-ups
by:
Rudolph Herzog
3.75 avg rating — 208 ratings 39. 
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
by:
G.J. Meyer
4.02 avg rating — 9,084 ratings 40. 
The Way to Eternity: Egyptian Myth (Myth & Mankind, Vol. 2)
by:
Fergus Fleming
4.04 avg rating — 83 ratings 41. 
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
by:
Wendy Welch
3.71 avg rating — 3,251 ratings 
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The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II
by:
Nina Shandler
3.30 avg rating — 71 ratings 43. 
Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner
by:
Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating — 26,525 ratings 45. 
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.03 avg rating — 22,522 ratings 45. 
The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist 4.22 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
by:
John Rizzo
3.74 avg rating — 791 ratings 48. 
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
by:
Brian Kilmeade
3.85 avg rating — 20,617 ratings 48. 
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.30 avg rating — 45,191 ratings 50. 
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
by:
Brian Kilmeade
3.80 avg rating — 16,604 ratings 51. 
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.13 avg rating — 46,335 ratings 52. 
All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation Into the Death Trade
by:
Hayley Campbell
4.25 avg rating — 11,727 ratings 
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by:
Jon Ronson
3.95 avg rating — 155,564 ratings 54. 
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
by:
Megan Rosenbloom
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,447 ratings 
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The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
by:
Greg King
4.16 avg rating — 448 ratings 
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,198 ratings 61. 
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
by:
Heather Pringle
4.10 avg rating — 866 ratings 62. 
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by:
Jennifer Niven
3.97 avg rating — 2,597 ratings 63. 
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
by:
Fiona Carnarvon
3.64 avg rating — 20,493 ratings 
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Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
by:
Alex Kershaw
3.97 avg rating — 3,463 ratings 66. 
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 191,227 ratings 67. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 
