Non-Fiction Listed on LitHub's Bookmarks --Part II
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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Sue Klebold
4.14 avg rating — 44,131 ratings 
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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
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Frank Trentmann
3.82 avg rating — 702 ratings 10. 
Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century 3.50 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice 4.26 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
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Meredith Maran
3.87 avg rating — 655 ratings 13. 
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
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Robert D. Kaplan
3.81 avg rating — 1,340 ratings 
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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Sonia Shah
4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings 
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Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist
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Anne Boyd Rioux
4.21 avg rating — 103 ratings 23. 
Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
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Katherine Zoepf
3.87 avg rating — 1,063 ratings 24. 
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
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Bill Bryson
3.72 avg rating — 38,066 ratings 25. 
Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond
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E.J. Dionne Jr.
4.07 avg rating — 966 ratings 25. 
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,732 ratings 
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America 3.95 avg rating — 669 ratings
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The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built
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Jack Viertel
4.07 avg rating — 1,838 ratings 35. 
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness
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Eli Sanders
3.98 avg rating — 3,611 ratings 35. 
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
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Laura Secor
4.14 avg rating — 371 ratings 37. 
Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.
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David Denby
3.59 avg rating — 801 ratings 37. 
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
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Randy W. Roberts
4.17 avg rating — 1,219 ratings 39. 
Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
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Baz Dreisinger
3.85 avg rating — 558 ratings 39. 
The Green and the Black: The Complete Story of the Shale Revolution, the Fight over Fracking, and the Future of Energy
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Gary Sernovitz
3.91 avg rating — 144 ratings 41. 
Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
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Ben Ratliff
3.29 avg rating — 893 ratings 
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
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Timothy Egan
4.30 avg rating — 9,128 ratings 45. 
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government 4.20 avg rating — 626 ratings
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
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Adam Cohen
3.77 avg rating — 2,591 ratings 47. 
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
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A.O. Scott
3.29 avg rating — 1,290 ratings 47. 
The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
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Sally Denton
3.66 avg rating — 549 ratings 
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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Olivia Laing
3.92 avg rating — 33,177 ratings 51. 
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
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Henry Petroski
3.44 avg rating — 522 ratings 51. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,958 ratings 
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The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History 4.11 avg rating — 1,694 ratings
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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
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Nancy Jo Sales
3.60 avg rating — 2,809 ratings 59. 
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
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Charles Duhigg
3.90 avg rating — 35,343 ratings 61. 
You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
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Jack Lynch
3.84 avg rating — 223 ratings 61. 
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
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Thomas Frank
4.18 avg rating — 5,231 ratings 
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Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
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Douglas Brinkley
4.27 avg rating — 572 ratings 
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
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Adam Hochschild
4.22 avg rating — 3,619 ratings 
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
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Maria Konnikova
3.66 avg rating — 5,851 ratings 73. 
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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
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Stephen Coss
3.73 avg rating — 782 ratings 
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Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution
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Jonathan Abrams
4.14 avg rating — 2,792 ratings 
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The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
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Glen Weldon
4.12 avg rating — 2,631 ratings 
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Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck
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Peter Manseau
3.39 avg rating — 77 ratings 85. 
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
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Peggy Orenstein
4.07 avg rating — 11,169 ratings 86. 
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American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper
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Jacob S. Hacker
4.16 avg rating — 664 ratings 
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Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
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Adina Hoffman
3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings 90. 
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
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Krista Tippett
4.08 avg rating — 5,573 ratings 91. 
The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
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Laura Claridge
3.59 avg rating — 142 ratings 92. 
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
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James McBride
3.90 avg rating — 2,879 ratings 93. 
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
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Laura Tillman
3.35 avg rating — 1,171 ratings 94. 
Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years
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Catherine Newman
3.97 avg rating — 1,277 ratings 95. 
Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism
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Randall B. Woods
3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings 96. 
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
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Jeff Passan
4.20 avg rating — 4,130 ratings 97. 
Orson Welles, Vol. 3: One-Man Band (Orson Welles, #3)
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Simon Callow
4.42 avg rating — 180 ratings 98. 
