Best Nonfiction with MORE than 500 but LESS than 2,000 Ratings
1. 
A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
by:
Janice Hadlow
4.12 avg rating — 1,266 ratings 
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The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other True Stories of the Southwest
by:
Tony Hillerman
3.82 avg rating — 1,088 ratings 4. 
Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
by:
Gordon Thomas
4.07 avg rating — 1,145 ratings 7. 
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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
by:
Hugo Hamilton
3.75 avg rating — 1,641 ratings 11. 
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by:
Stewart Brand
4.35 avg rating — 1,842 ratings 11. 
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
by:
Violet Moller
3.88 avg rating — 2,141 ratings 
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The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
by:
Tim Severin
4.25 avg rating — 1,868 ratings 14. 
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Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding 4.13 avg rating — 639 ratings
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The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Volume 1
by:
Fernand Braudel
4.35 avg rating — 1,711 ratings 22. 
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean 3.64 avg rating — 600 ratings
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Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
by:
Marcus Rediker
3.98 avg rating — 1,142 ratings 26. 
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
by:
David M. Crook
4.12 avg rating — 1,618 ratings 
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Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
by:
P.J. O'Rourke
3.89 avg rating — 1,507 ratings 
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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are
by:
Henry Petroski
3.53 avg rating — 1,359 ratings 39. 
The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry Into the Fall of France in 1940 4.25 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
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400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
by:
Adam Plantinga
4.01 avg rating — 1,252 ratings 
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Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth
by:
Scott James
4.25 avg rating — 845 ratings 
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Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day
by:
Marc Spitz
3.91 avg rating — 780 ratings 
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
by:
P.J. O'Rourke
3.68 avg rating — 1,237 ratings 
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My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood
by:
Marcel Pagnol
4.27 avg rating — 1,092 ratings 
52. 
The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski
by:
Samantha Geimer
3.53 avg rating — 1,047 ratings 
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Letters from the Pit: Stories of a Physician's Odyssey in Emergency Medicine 4.53 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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No Cake, No Jam: Hardship and happiness in wartime London
by:
Marian Hughes
4.25 avg rating — 979 ratings 
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A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission
by:
Joseph C. Banks
4.32 avg rating — 866 ratings 
66. 
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
by:
Yoshiko Uchida
3.88 avg rating — 827 ratings 
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The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
by:
Alistair Horne
4.11 avg rating — 816 ratings 69. 
The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
by:
Stephan Talty
3.69 avg rating — 794 ratings 
75. 
The Vintage Mencken: The Finest and Fiercest Essays of the Great Literary Iconoclast
by:
H.L. Mencken
4.05 avg rating — 742 ratings 76. 
The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
by:
Robert V. Remini
3.85 avg rating — 731 ratings 77. 
Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead
by:
Brian Boyle
4.08 avg rating — 736 ratings 78. 
The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
by:
Leanda de Lisle
4.09 avg rating — 727 ratings 
80. 
Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
by:
Anne de Courcy
3.96 avg rating — 708 ratings 81. 
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
by:
Len Deighton
4.18 avg rating — 699 ratings 
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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
by:
Sally Denton
4.05 avg rating — 675 ratings 85. 
Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s
by:
James Lileks
4.14 avg rating — 647 ratings 86. 
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My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 (Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol 2)
by:
George Orwell
4.28 avg rating — 634 ratings 88. 
The Fallen: Searching for the Missing Members of The Fall
by:
Dave Simpson
3.90 avg rating — 626 ratings 
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Coral Comes High: U.S. Marines and the Fight for Peleliu
by:
George P. Hunt
4.17 avg rating — 611 ratings 
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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
by:
Wiley Sword
4.31 avg rating — 552 ratings 
96. 
What Cops Know: Today's Police Tell the Inside Story of Their Work on America's Streets
by:
Connie Fletcher
3.97 avg rating — 534 ratings 
99. 
Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
by:
David Roberts
4.04 avg rating — 511 ratings 