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1. 
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.26 avg rating — 550,932 ratings 
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by:
Bill Bryson
4.07 avg rating — 436,099 ratings 
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
by:
Widad Akreyi
4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings 10. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,580 ratings 
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating — 885,798 ratings 13. 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,202 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating — 220,433 ratings 
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by:
Barack Obama
3.94 avg rating — 229,604 ratings 21. 
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by:
Tony Horwitz
4.10 avg rating — 24,890 ratings 
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Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices 4.23 avg rating — 17,336 ratings
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What Has He Done Now?: Tales from a North West Childhood in the 60s and Early 70s
by:
David Hayes
3.56 avg rating — 889 ratings 26. 
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
by:
David Simon
4.45 avg rating — 6,779 ratings 
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,176 ratings 
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by:
Sebastian Junger
4.12 avg rating — 117,722 ratings 33. 
What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character 4.19 avg rating — 30,238 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by:
Eric Schlosser
3.75 avg rating — 206,249 ratings 
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,357 ratings 
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments 4.14 avg rating — 52,658 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
by:
Tony Horwitz
3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings 
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
by:
Donald Miller
3.90 avg rating — 117,670 ratings 
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Possiplex: Movies, Intellect, Creative Control, My Computer Life and the Fight for Civilization
by:
Ted Nelson
4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings 47. 
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
by:
Widad Akreyi
4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings 
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More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty
by:
Dean Karlan
3.95 avg rating — 988 ratings 
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,279 ratings 53. 
The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
by:
Julie Salamon
4.06 avg rating — 2,210 ratings 54. 
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx 4.26 avg rating — 13,311 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by:
Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating — 208,899 ratings 
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Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
by:
Ron Hall
4.20 avg rating — 91,988 ratings 60. 
Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
by:
Yangzom Brauen
3.96 avg rating — 1,701 ratings 
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,599 ratings 69. 
Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution
by:
Steven Poole
3.48 avg rating — 277 ratings 
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,938 ratings 
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Big Happiness: The Life and Death of a Modern Hawaiian Warrior
by:
Mark Panek
4.42 avg rating — 60 ratings 71. 
God's Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
by:
Bob Fu
4.53 avg rating — 1,305 ratings 71. 
The Paris Husband: How It Really Was Between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway
by:
Scott Donaldson
3.58 avg rating — 103 ratings 71. 
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Moresnet: opkomst en ondergang van een vergeten buurlandje
by:
Philip Dröge
4.09 avg rating — 686 ratings 71. 
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
by:
Emma Southon
4.08 avg rating — 5,630 ratings 
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Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler
by:
Jessica Speart
3.62 avg rating — 557 ratings 80. 
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating — 8,259 ratings 
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by:
David Grann
3.90 avg rating — 106,814 ratings 80. 
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
by:
Julia Scheeres
4.01 avg rating — 5,116 ratings 80. 
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Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001
by:
Benny Morris
4.20 avg rating — 918 ratings 88. 
Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up A Woefully Incomplete Guide
by:
Bob Harris
3.85 avg rating — 291 ratings 88. 
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process 4.10 avg rating — 10,017 ratings
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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
by:
Helen Rappaport
4.05 avg rating — 6,113 ratings 88. 
Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
by:
Donald Miller
4.07 avg rating — 15,508 ratings 88. 
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
by:
Stella Tillyard
4.10 avg rating — 1,958 ratings 
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Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.82 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 96. 
Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
by:
Katie Hickman
3.74 avg rating — 1,124 ratings 
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.20 avg rating — 87,482 ratings 99. 
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
by:
Neil Strauss
3.73 avg rating — 32,106 ratings