The Millions' Most Anticipated, Too: The Great Second-Half 2016 Nonfiction Book Preview
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,562 ratings
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Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from '80s Movies
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating — 4,804 ratings
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
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Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy 4.26 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
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The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
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American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice 4.39 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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