The Big Non-fiction

1.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,241 ratings
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John Adams
John Adams 4.08 avg rating — 373,261 ratings
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Nicholas And Alexandra
Nicholas And Alexandra 4.23 avg rating — 29,466 ratings
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The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,684 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,178 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 — 445,096 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
The Life of Elizabeth I 4.03 avg rating — 32,632 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Six Wives of Henry VIII 4.12 avg rating — 72,140 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II 4.37 avg rating — 11,717 ratings
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,198 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,482 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,615 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,724 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,191 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,304 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,264 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
The Last Days of the Incas 4.20 avg rating — 6,887 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
Peter the Great: His Life and World 4.15 avg rating — 22,820 ratings
20.
Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life 4.16 avg rating — 79,897 ratings
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The Civil War: A Narrative
The Civil War: A Narrative 4.53 avg rating — 8,028 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,684 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots 3.99 avg rating — 17,291 ratings
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Story of Civilization
Story of Civilization 4.43 avg rating — 1,787 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton 4.22 avg rating — 194,794 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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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,560 ratings
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Democracy in America
Democracy in America 4.05 avg rating — 26,629 ratings
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Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire 4.28 avg rating — 2,765 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating — 51,944 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution 4.14 avg rating — 28,421 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 4.33 avg rating — 15,703 ratings
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London: The Biography
London: The Biography 3.96 avg rating — 5,912 ratings
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The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam
The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam 4.02 avg rating — 7,165 ratings
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy 4.11 avg rating — 1,841 ratings
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Truman
Truman 4.17 avg rating — 90,312 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,877 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 4.18 avg rating — 18,441 ratings
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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War 4.31 avg rating — 6,886 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 4.39 avg rating — 11,880 ratings
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The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 11,563 ratings
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Shakespeare: The Biography
Shakespeare: The Biography 4.03 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality 4.13 avg rating — 40,010 ratings
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 3.96 avg rating — 3,302 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
The Weaker Vessel 3.92 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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Washington's Crossing
Washington's Crossing 4.16 avg rating — 15,170 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Marie Antoinette: The Journey 3.94 avg rating — 38,048 ratings
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years 4.28 avg rating — 5,424 ratings
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge 4.25 avg rating — 18,115 ratings
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.14 avg rating — 12,631 ratings
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A Man on the Moon
A Man on the Moon 4.49 avg rating — 7,507 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined 4.16 avg rating — 29,271 ratings
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
Freud: A Life for Our Time
by: Peter Gay
4.18 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 4.22 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume V (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire #5)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume V (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire #5) 4.05 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris
Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris 4.16 avg rating — 6,728 ratings
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Reclaiming History – The Assassination of John F Kennedy
Reclaiming History – The Assassination of John F Kennedy 4.11 avg rating — 1,492 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating — 10,688 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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Thames: Sacred River
Thames: Sacred River 3.79 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)
Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809) 4.32 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
Annals of the Former World 4.36 avg rating — 4,300 ratings
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My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
by: John Guy
3.94 avg rating — 5,224 ratings
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City of God
City of God 3.94 avg rating — 13,451 ratings
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire 3.78 avg rating — 20,122 ratings
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII 4.13 avg rating — 10,096 ratings
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 6,180 ratings
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A History of the American People
A History of the American People 4.11 avg rating — 2,976 ratings
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Writings
Writings 4.25 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Essays
Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,557 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.48 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
The Year of Decision 1846 4.13 avg rating — 424 ratings
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The Course Of Empire
The Course Of Empire 4.17 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography 4.12 avg rating — 12,255 ratings
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley 4.17 avg rating — 9,895 ratings
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton 3.92 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate 3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story
The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story 3.88 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders 3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?
Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? 3.69 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating — 23,215 ratings
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation
Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
by: Beth Ward
3.79 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
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Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Torn Trilogy
The Torn Trilogy 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam 4.43 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,601 ratings
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Of the Andromeda Martian Catastrophe
Of the Andromeda Martian Catastrophe 4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times 4.35 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
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Ashtavakra Gita: The Ultimate Solace
Ashtavakra Gita: The Ultimate Solace 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 4.16 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
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A History of Philosophy, 11 Vols
A History of Philosophy, 11 Vols 4.26 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Mandela
Mandela 4.16 avg rating — 341 ratings
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The Test of Courage: Michel Thomas
The Test of Courage: Michel Thomas 4.22 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2
by: Karl Marx
4.10 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 2
Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Untold History of The United States
The Untold History of The United States 4.20 avg rating — 2,750 ratings
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples 4.09 avg rating — 922 ratings
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro 4.29 avg rating — 326 ratings
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