Books White People Really Need To Read

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,873 ratings
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My Inventions
My Inventions 3.91 avg rating — 12,442 ratings
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,199 ratings
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Democracy in America
Democracy in America 4.05 avg rating — 26,629 ratings
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The Double Helix
The Double Helix 3.84 avg rating — 19,755 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,034 ratings
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World 4.07 avg rating — 2,652 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,489 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life 3.99 avg rating — 97,412 ratings
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
by: Max Weber
3.91 avg rating — 14,705 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.94 avg rating — 107,272 ratings
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The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 4.16 avg rating — 779 ratings
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A History of Western Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy 4.13 avg rating — 40,913 ratings
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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science 4.12 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.84 avg rating — 120,614 ratings
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci 4.19 avg rating — 122,296 ratings
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton 3.79 avg rating — 9,429 ratings
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 3.81 avg rating — 46,388 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,210 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers 4.17 avg rating — 96,961 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by: Ross King
3.91 avg rating — 27,851 ratings
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future 4.11 avg rating — 5,829 ratings
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century 4.18 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Einstein: His Life and Universe 4.17 avg rating — 197,590 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages 3.88 avg rating — 925 ratings
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs 4.15 avg rating — 1,331,350 ratings
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I Am Your Negro: Adolf Hitler
I Am Your Negro: Adolf Hitler 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug 4.09 avg rating — 5,801 ratings
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Madame Curie: A Biography
Madame Curie: A Biography 4.37 avg rating — 4,982 ratings
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation 4.24 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Michelangelo : The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture
Michelangelo : The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture 4.54 avg rating — 149 ratings
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American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt 3.78 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics 4.22 avg rating — 2,937 ratings
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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
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,260 ratings
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement 4.60 avg rating — 3,777 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,157 ratings
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 4.12 avg rating — 39,127 ratings
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A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind 4.13 avg rating — 134,377 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,326 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 4.22 avg rating — 22,143 ratings
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet 4.18 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: with Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: with Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.78 avg rating — 2,589 ratings
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman 4.12 avg rating — 24,100 ratings
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March Of The Titans The Complete History Of The White Race
March Of The Titans The Complete History Of The White Race 4.33 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution 4.16 avg rating — 8,457 ratings
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom 4.01 avg rating — 7,385 ratings
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The Hidden History of the Human Race: The Condensed Edition of Forbidden Archeology
The Hidden History of the Human Race: The Condensed Edition of Forbidden Archeology 3.94 avg rating — 639 ratings
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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors 4.11 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,862 ratings
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In Search of the Dark Ages
In Search of the Dark Ages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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Europe: A History
Europe: A History 4.21 avg rating — 5,139 ratings
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Connections
Connections 4.25 avg rating — 2,480 ratings
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A History of Venice
A History of Venice 4.17 avg rating — 2,093 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
Chaos: Making a New Science 4.03 avg rating — 40,243 ratings
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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople 4.17 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating — 54,027 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,098 ratings
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery 4.07 avg rating — 4,148 ratings
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An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't 3.90 avg rating — 2,417 ratings
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Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World 4.10 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Watt's Perfect Engine : Steam and the Age of Invention
Watt's Perfect Engine : Steam and the Age of Invention 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority 4.14 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality
Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality 3.82 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past 4.14 avg rating — 5,855 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.80 avg rating — 18,693 ratings
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot 4.36 avg rating — 60,802 ratings
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine 4.54 avg rating — 9,712 ratings
68.
Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination
Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination 3.56 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Ten Myths About Israel
Ten Myths About Israel 4.40 avg rating — 5,299 ratings
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention 3.93 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself 4.15 avg rating — 2,901 ratings
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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories 4.36 avg rating — 1,291 ratings
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The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) 3.71 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Hospital Sketches
Hospital Sketches 3.71 avg rating — 2,421 ratings
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Cathedral: By the Author of The Way Things Work
Cathedral: By the Author of The Way Things Work 4.26 avg rating — 2,389 ratings
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands 3.44 avg rating — 1,733 ratings
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Living My Life
Living My Life 4.27 avg rating — 2,129 ratings
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay 3.91 avg rating — 9,507 ratings
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Hard Choices
Hard Choices 3.61 avg rating — 14,708 ratings
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My Own Story: Memoirs of Emmeline Pankhurst; Including Her Most Famous Speech "Freedom or Death"
My Own Story: Memoirs of Emmeline Pankhurst; Including Her Most Famous Speech "Freedom or Death" 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,340 ratings
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings 4.51 avg rating — 5,518 ratings
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"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor
"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor 4.19 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 4.36 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Hidden Genius: Frank Mann, the Black Engineer behind Howard Hughes
Hidden Genius: Frank Mann, the Black Engineer behind Howard Hughes 4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington 4.20 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas
Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Worldly Philosophers
The Worldly Philosophers 4.16 avg rating — 8,759 ratings
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Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century 4.40 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon 4.14 avg rating — 76,325 ratings
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Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana
Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds 3.99 avg rating — 62,920 ratings
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 4.18 avg rating — 16,210 ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 4.16 avg rating — 35,596 ratings
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This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made 3.93 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine 4.12 avg rating — 9,242 ratings
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream 3.83 avg rating — 168,487 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World 4.20 avg rating — 87,501 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,890 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,744 ratings
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