Darn Good Non-Fiction Reads

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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count 3.78 avg rating — 3,318 ratings
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90 Percent of Everything
90 Percent of Everything 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World 3.99 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever 3.56 avg rating — 298 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 — 445,031 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 — 18,438 ratings
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1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,337 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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Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,161 ratings
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War 4.01 avg rating — 6,381 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before 4.04 avg rating — 10,353 ratings
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All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West 3.84 avg rating — 1,415 ratings
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Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy 4.24 avg rating — 2,189 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 — 550,962 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 4.18 avg rating — 359,837 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,604 ratings