Dark Times: Terrible Past and Present in our World (Non-Fiction)
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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Tim Butcher
3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings 
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Erik Larson
4.05 avg rating — 70,033 ratings 
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The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
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Michiko Kakutani
3.79 avg rating — 4,890 ratings 7. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,877 ratings 7. 
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
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Le Ly Hayslip
4.12 avg rating — 4,294 ratings 
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The Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Women In India
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Kalpana Sharma
4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
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Lisa Rogak
3.92 avg rating — 1,721 ratings 15. 
Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
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Daniel Tudor
3.81 avg rating — 399 ratings 15. 
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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Adam Hochschild
4.19 avg rating — 66,225 ratings 
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
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Timothy Egan
4.06 avg rating — 60,131 ratings 
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Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory
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Cormac Ó Gráda
3.81 avg rating — 70 ratings 21. 
The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project 3.87 avg rating — 676 ratings
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
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Jang Jin-sung
4.33 avg rating — 9,248 ratings 
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
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Gordon Thomas
4.07 avg rating — 1,145 ratings 
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech 4.07 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,205 ratings 28. 
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
by:
Sungju Lee
4.31 avg rating — 6,897 ratings 31. 
The Vanished: The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographs
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Léna Mauger
3.76 avg rating — 462 ratings 31. 
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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Blaine Harden
4.01 avg rating — 70,873 ratings 31. 
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
by:
Yeonmi Park
4.49 avg rating — 99,441 ratings 34. 
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
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Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings 36. 
Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
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Sarah Helm
4.41 avg rating — 4,916 ratings 36. 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,433 ratings 38. 
Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
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Joseph Kim
4.22 avg rating — 2,252 ratings 38. 
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
by:
Chanrithy Him
4.18 avg rating — 4,944 ratings 40. 
Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
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Yong Kim
4.17 avg rating — 682 ratings 40. 
Heart of Fire: One Girl's Extraordinary Journey from Child Soldier to Soul Singer
by:
Senait G. Mehari
3.72 avg rating — 333 ratings 42. 
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
by:
Souad Mekhennet
4.42 avg rating — 4,819 ratings 
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My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth
by:
Wendy E. Simmons
3.67 avg rating — 2,485 ratings 
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
by:
Lucia Jang
4.32 avg rating — 2,010 ratings 47. 
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
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Peter Grose
4.04 avg rating — 184 ratings 
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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Jon Krakauer
4.26 avg rating — 551,075 ratings 
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Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
by:
Peter Stanley
3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
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Hyeonseo Lee
4.43 avg rating — 98,761 ratings 59. 
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
by:
Bart Ziino
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
by:
Dan Carlin
3.89 avg rating — 13,343 ratings 64. 
The Dozier School for Boys: Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past 3.58 avg rating — 519 ratings
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When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia 4.13 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
by:
Betty Jeffrey
4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings 73. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,932 ratings 74. 
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Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918
by:
David Johnson
3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings 
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
by:
Greg King
3.95 avg rating — 522 ratings 
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
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Eleanor Herman
3.99 avg rating — 5,001 ratings 83. 
The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields
by:
Rithy Panh
4.12 avg rating — 538 ratings