[ATY 2021] - Nonfiction That's Not A Memoir or Biography

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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth 4.04 avg rating — 8,384 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 — 111,145 ratings
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Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages 3.62 avg rating — 550 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,235 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal 3.93 avg rating — 50,607 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 4.06 avg rating — 152,013 ratings
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The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained 3.66 avg rating — 1,803 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World 4.07 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives 4.25 avg rating — 4,973 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,440 ratings
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know 3.63 avg rating — 17,643 ratings
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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle 3.93 avg rating — 62,203 ratings
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Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste 3.76 avg rating — 7,898 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by: Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,337 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,390 ratings
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories 3.85 avg rating — 51,305 ratings
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone 4.20 avg rating — 7,741 ratings
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Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City 4.52 avg rating — 14,024 ratings
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The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America 4.01 avg rating — 5,080 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond 4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Our Bodies, Ourselves 4.37 avg rating — 7,461 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 — 259,691 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 4.26 avg rating — 550,968 ratings
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution 3.98 avg rating — 3,555 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow 4.19 avg rating — 278,884 ratings
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture 4.43 avg rating — 22,350 ratings
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design 4.36 avg rating — 8,993 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York 4.01 avg rating — 36,514 ratings
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Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps 3.70 avg rating — 14,254 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road 4.16 avg rating — 93,093 ratings
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses 4.38 avg rating — 18,772 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures 4.33 avg rating — 47,225 ratings
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
The Devil's Highway: A True Story 4.11 avg rating — 17,925 ratings
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All the Single Ladies
All the Single Ladies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,281 ratings
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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman 3.75 avg rating — 10,159 ratings
135.
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,051 ratings
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The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style 4.18 avg rating — 86,241 ratings
135.
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well 3.77 avg rating — 111,998 ratings
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
Notes on a Nervous Planet
by: Matt Haig
3.95 avg rating — 54,682 ratings
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope 4.27 avg rating — 8,993 ratings
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators 4.40 avg rating — 101,061 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,882 ratings
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon 4.53 avg rating — 11,265 ratings
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote 4.02 avg rating — 4,042 ratings
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The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild 3.97 avg rating — 702 ratings
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are 3.90 avg rating — 42,038 ratings
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.63 avg rating — 20,028 ratings
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Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned 3.93 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 4.36 avg rating — 36,105 ratings
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Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives 4.10 avg rating — 4,071 ratings
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
Women & Power: A Manifesto 4.02 avg rating — 38,436 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating — 228,787 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,148 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History 4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings
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Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It 4.37 avg rating — 4,206 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by: Sam Kean
4.26 avg rating — 13,463 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,311 ratings
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But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past 3.66 avg rating — 18,270 ratings
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Other Minds
Other Minds 3.88 avg rating — 26,732 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 — 73,872 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language 4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings
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Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World 3.96 avg rating — 764 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 4.04 avg rating — 44,513 ratings
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention 4.22 avg rating — 3,979 ratings
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The Golden Age of Advertising: The 70s
The Golden Age of Advertising: The 70s 3.82 avg rating — 105 ratings
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A Nation Worth Ranting About
A Nation Worth Ranting About 3.86 avg rating — 1,136 ratings
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time 3.91 avg rating — 1,770 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 — 120,604 ratings
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present 4.23 avg rating — 6,454 ratings
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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead 4.29 avg rating — 236,428 ratings
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries 4.19 avg rating — 9,045 ratings
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation 4.06 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
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A Black Women's History of the United States
A Black Women's History of the United States 4.29 avg rating — 3,590 ratings
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Integrative Nutrition: A Whole-Life Approach to Health and Happiness
Integrative Nutrition: A Whole-Life Approach to Health and Happiness 4.36 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future 3.79 avg rating — 389 ratings
174.
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
A History of the World in 6 Glasses 3.81 avg rating — 32,780 ratings
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Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting 4.02 avg rating — 75,861 ratings
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion 4.03 avg rating — 76,749 ratings
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution 4.18 avg rating — 10,197 ratings
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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations 3.88 avg rating — 11,409 ratings
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Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End... 4.04 avg rating — 5,232 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 — 93,181 ratings
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The Gifts of Imperfection
The Gifts of Imperfection 4.25 avg rating — 214,980 ratings
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The Last Expedition
The Last Expedition 4.14 avg rating — 1,860 ratings
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You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love
You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love 4.16 avg rating — 9,818 ratings
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed 4.12 avg rating — 12,029 ratings
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The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion, and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion, and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England 3.93 avg rating — 429 ratings
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500 Essential Graphic Novels
500 Essential Graphic Novels 3.82 avg rating — 197 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4.06 avg rating — 76,891 ratings
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Titanic
Titanic 4.22 avg rating — 64 ratings
174.
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask 4.11 avg rating — 2,157 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,768 ratings
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A Social History of Tea
A Social History of Tea 4.01 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Everyday Osho
Everyday Osho
by: Osho
4.18 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed 4.37 avg rating — 385,711 ratings
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The Kindness Challenge: Thirty Days to Improve Any Relationship
The Kindness Challenge: Thirty Days to Improve Any Relationship 4.20 avg rating — 617 ratings
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets 4.36 avg rating — 19,839 ratings
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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains 3.67 avg rating — 2,171 ratings
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks 4.02 avg rating — 10,453 ratings
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