Best Nonfiction with MORE than 10,000 but LESS than 50,000 Ratings

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Cider With Rosie
Cider With Rosie 3.91 avg rating — 14,856 ratings
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Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre 3.67 avg rating — 30,581 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
Goodbye to All That 3.93 avg rating — 15,315 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The World as Stage 3.82 avg rating — 48,081 ratings
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The Discoverers
The Discoverers 4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary 4.05 avg rating — 10,953 ratings
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time 3.87 avg rating — 41,520 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,622 ratings
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Escape
Escape 3.98 avg rating — 45,881 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 4.49 avg rating — 45,833 ratings
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March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Two (March, #2) 4.49 avg rating — 28,882 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival 4.07 avg rating — 18,584 ratings
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 4.01 avg rating — 45,369 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way 3.91 avg rating — 43,554 ratings
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk 4.19 avg rating — 35,974 ratings
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The City of Falling Angels
The City of Falling Angels 3.55 avg rating — 17,134 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,232 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
March: Book Three (March, #3) 4.64 avg rating — 21,409 ratings
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan 4.11 avg rating — 13,991 ratings
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 4.72 avg rating — 41,752 ratings
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I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = Cooking
I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = Cooking 4.12 avg rating — 23,891 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,868 ratings
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Games People Play
Games People Play 3.73 avg rating — 40,194 ratings
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall 4.20 avg rating — 21,285 ratings
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Stalingrad
Stalingrad 4.32 avg rating — 40,051 ratings
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets 4.36 avg rating — 19,836 ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 4.16 avg rating — 35,580 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,172 ratings
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Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 32,610 ratings
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Small Sacrifices
Small Sacrifices
by: Ann Rule
4.26 avg rating — 31,788 ratings
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas 3.85 avg rating — 17,452 ratings
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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health 3.72 avg rating — 31,233 ratings
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What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character 4.19 avg rating — 30,236 ratings
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen 3.95 avg rating — 22,338 ratings
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Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops 3.74 avg rating — 30,074 ratings
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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember 4.09 avg rating — 27,685 ratings
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Paris to the Moon
Paris to the Moon 3.75 avg rating — 15,348 ratings
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Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 27,104 ratings
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1) 4.42 avg rating — 25,860 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris 3.94 avg rating — 20,408 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating — 25,783 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes
Miracle in the Andes 4.36 avg rating — 25,679 ratings
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions 3.93 avg rating — 26,412 ratings
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Helmet for My Pillow
Helmet for My Pillow 4.23 avg rating — 24,385 ratings
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 4.13 avg rating — 24,126 ratings
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Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3) 4.42 avg rating — 23,633 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 22,175 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating — 21,302 ratings
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Drinking: A Love Story
Drinking: A Love Story 4.09 avg rating — 21,113 ratings
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I'm OK - You're OK
I'm OK - You're OK 3.76 avg rating — 19,312 ratings
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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4) 4.40 avg rating — 19,288 ratings
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West 4.29 avg rating — 19,120 ratings
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Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope 4.15 avg rating — 18,493 ratings
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Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight 3.23 avg rating — 18,006 ratings
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 4.22 avg rating — 17,531 ratings
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Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City 4.22 avg rating — 16,958 ratings
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Red Scarf Girl
Red Scarf Girl 3.79 avg rating — 16,930 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 4.33 avg rating — 15,702 ratings
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2) 4.36 avg rating — 15,510 ratings
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men 3.47 avg rating — 14,869 ratings
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The Road from Coorain
The Road from Coorain 4.02 avg rating — 13,390 ratings
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court
Henry VIII: The King and His Court 4.10 avg rating — 14,387 ratings
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The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones 3.89 avg rating — 14,307 ratings
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Below Stairs
Below Stairs 3.58 avg rating — 14,239 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn 3.98 avg rating — 14,167 ratings
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back 3.95 avg rating — 13,680 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age 3.83 avg rating — 12,692 ratings
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla 3.91 avg rating — 12,439 ratings
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Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Provence, #3)
Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Provence, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 12,393 ratings
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If You Really Loved Me
If You Really Loved Me
by: Ann Rule
4.12 avg rating — 12,387 ratings
71.
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by: Jim Dwyer
4.30 avg rating — 12,176 ratings
72.
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 4.39 avg rating — 11,881 ratings
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour 4.35 avg rating — 11,391 ratings
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Red Azalea: A Memoir
Red Azalea: A Memoir 3.84 avg rating — 10,639 ratings
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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives 4.33 avg rating — 10,591 ratings
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3) 4.48 avg rating — 10,566 ratings
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise 3.94 avg rating — 47,446 ratings
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Princess - An Appalling Indictment of the Treatment of Women in Saudi Arabia
Princess - An Appalling Indictment of the Treatment of Women in Saudi Arabia 4.03 avg rating — 38,918 ratings
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table 4.08 avg rating — 38,838 ratings
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My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel 3.91 avg rating — 32,963 ratings
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Mao's Last Dancer
Mao's Last Dancer
by: Li Cunxin
4.14 avg rating — 32,148 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,921 ratings
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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines 4.10 avg rating — 30,196 ratings
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Embroideries
Embroideries 3.94 avg rating — 29,936 ratings
86.
Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1)
Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 24,904 ratings
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The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood 4.13 avg rating — 24,629 ratings
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Fatal Vision
Fatal Vision 4.12 avg rating — 24,563 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
Peter the Great: His Life and World 4.15 avg rating — 22,817 ratings
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Hitch-22
Hitch-22 4.02 avg rating — 22,231 ratings
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table 4.05 avg rating — 22,171 ratings
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The Twelve Caesars
The Twelve Caesars
by: Suetonius
4.02 avg rating — 22,150 ratings
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Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun 3.98 avg rating — 22,082 ratings
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood 3.74 avg rating — 20,071 ratings
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Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Penguin Little Black Classics, #119)
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Penguin Little Black Classics, #119) 3.93 avg rating — 19,574 ratings
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Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story 4.31 avg rating — 18,385 ratings
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A Woman's Story
A Woman's Story 4.25 avg rating — 18,541 ratings
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Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated 4.09 avg rating — 18,171 ratings
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism 4.10 avg rating — 16,786 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life 3.93 avg rating — 16,522 ratings
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