52 Book Club 2021: #8 A Book In The 900s Of The Dewey Decimal System
1. 
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,768 ratings 
7. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,194 ratings
8. 
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,770 ratings
10. 
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Liza Mundy
3.96 avg rating — 29,156 ratings 
13. 
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by:
Cheryl Strayed
4.07 avg rating — 850,481 ratings 
16. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,703 ratings 16. 
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,433 ratings
18. 
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
by:
Jenny Lawson
3.90 avg rating — 198,657 ratings 
20. 
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating — 132,005 ratings 
21. 
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
by:
Sam Heughan
4.04 avg rating — 18,406 ratings 23. 
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva 3.97 avg rating — 5,051 ratings
24. 
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
by:
Julia P. Gelardi
4.06 avg rating — 2,618 ratings 
26. 
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
by:
Ali Wong
3.84 avg rating — 98,547 ratings 
30. 
Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes
by:
Tim Brady
3.98 avg rating — 8,999 ratings 31. 
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by:
Tim Marshall
4.19 avg rating — 110,345 ratings 
33. 
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
34. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,255 ratings 35. 
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
by:
Corrie ten Boom
4.47 avg rating — 348,511 ratings 
39. 
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
by:
Jenny Lawson
3.89 avg rating — 171,418 ratings 40. 
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,079 ratings 41. 
43. 
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,450 ratings 44. 
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
by:
Garrett M. Graff
4.72 avg rating — 41,758 ratings 
47. 
48. 
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
by:
Alexis Coe
3.74 avg rating — 14,284 ratings 49. 
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
by:
Gary Krist
3.73 avg rating — 4,473 ratings 
52. 
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,582 ratings
53. 
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
by:
James McBride
3.90 avg rating — 2,879 ratings 54. 
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Sonia Purnell
4.15 avg rating — 58,207 ratings 55. 
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by:
Dani Shapiro
3.89 avg rating — 45,334 ratings 56. 
56. 
Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
by:
Mark Moran
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 920 ratings 56. 
The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist
by:
Anthony M. Amore
3.22 avg rating — 759 ratings 56. 
Secret Dallas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure
by:
Mark Stuertz
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 
56. 
Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band
by:
Willie Nelson
4.30 avg rating — 1,508 ratings 
56. 
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by:
Mary L. Trump
3.82 avg rating — 95,059 ratings 56. 
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
by:
J.B. West
4.14 avg rating — 34,946 ratings 
56. 
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School 4.12 avg rating — 1,905 ratings
56. 
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
by:
Christian Cooper
4.24 avg rating — 6,197 ratings 56. 
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
by:
Amitav Ghosh
4.07 avg rating — 1,411 ratings 78. 
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
by:
Gwen Strauss
4.27 avg rating — 6,285 ratings 
78. 
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by:
Gilbert King
4.40 avg rating — 15,748 ratings 
78. 
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson 3.80 avg rating — 187 ratings
84. 
84. 
John Guillermin: The Man, The Myth, The Movies
by:
Mary Guillermin
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 
90. 
Major Thomas: The bush lawyer who defended Breaker Morant and took on the British Empire
by:
Greg Growden
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings 
95. 
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by:
Walter Johnson
4.11 avg rating — 2,011 ratings 
95. 
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by:
Irin Carmon
4.18 avg rating — 63,000 ratings 
95. 
100. 
A Brief History of Roman Britain - Conquest and Civilization
by:
Joan P. Alcock
3.38 avg rating — 91 ratings