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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,834 ratings
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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
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3.92 avg rating — 1,880 ratings 
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Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
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Charles Bowden
3.71 avg rating — 1,497 ratings 
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Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family 3.75 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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3.86 avg rating — 10,396 ratings 15. 
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
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Adam Hochschild
4.14 avg rating — 9,092 ratings 
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Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys
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Billy Crystal
3.95 avg rating — 17,211 ratings 19. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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3.98 avg rating — 114,812 ratings 
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How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends
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Mark Derr
3.24 avg rating — 381 ratings 23. 
Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Ocean's Oddest Creatures
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Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
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4.11 avg rating — 4,544 ratings 
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Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State
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Dana Priest
3.77 avg rating — 656 ratings 
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
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3.95 avg rating — 13,681 ratings 30. 
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
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Ben Rawlence
4.02 avg rating — 3,370 ratings 31. 
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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Ken Jennings
3.86 avg rating — 8,102 ratings 32. 
Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, And The End of Violence in Inner-City America
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David M. Kennedy
4.13 avg rating — 636 ratings 
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,586 ratings 37. 
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
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Peter L. Bergen
4.11 avg rating — 4,506 ratings 38. 
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
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Mark Mazzetti
3.85 avg rating — 3,932 ratings 
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
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Nick Reding
3.69 avg rating — 6,840 ratings 
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Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies
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3.42 avg rating — 414 ratings 43. 
The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story
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Robert B. Baer
3.49 avg rating — 2,408 ratings 
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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Steve Silberman
4.29 avg rating — 17,215 ratings 
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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
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Bryan Burrough
3.96 avg rating — 2,327 ratings 48. 
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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Dan Koeppel
3.81 avg rating — 5,278 ratings 48. 
Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You
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3.85 avg rating — 693 ratings 
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We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
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Peter Van Buren
3.93 avg rating — 673 ratings 
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Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
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3.98 avg rating — 4,792 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 56. 
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
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3.70 avg rating — 3,723 ratings 57. 
Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World
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Susan Silverman
3.73 avg rating — 370 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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Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
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4.06 avg rating — 3,863 ratings 67. 
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
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3.83 avg rating — 8,238 ratings 68. 
A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future 3.67 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Full Upright and Locked Position: The Insider's Guide to Air Travel
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Mark Gerchick
3.70 avg rating — 404 ratings 
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The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry Is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth
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3.29 avg rating — 131 ratings 
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Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (Apocalypse Z, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 15,584 ratings 77. 
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
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Thomas Maier
3.63 avg rating — 2,563 ratings 78. 
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
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Kathryn Joyce
4.15 avg rating — 1,133 ratings 
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Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children 3.97 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
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Charles Fishman
3.94 avg rating — 1,975 ratings 
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
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3.91 avg rating — 449 ratings 89. 
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
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Brian Greene
4.11 avg rating — 20,662 ratings 90. 
Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College
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3.82 avg rating — 810 ratings 
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Our Time: Breaking the Silence of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
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3.94 avg rating — 65 ratings 93. 
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
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3.82 avg rating — 11,842 ratings 
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Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
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David Wessel
3.81 avg rating — 666 ratings 96. 
Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years
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3.30 avg rating — 201 ratings 97. 
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4.08 avg rating — 209 ratings 98. 
The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind 4.13 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures
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3.55 avg rating — 250 ratings