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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,073 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 — 445,042 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,030 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day 4.01 avg rating — 714,094 ratings
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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 179,477 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist 3.92 avg rating — 3,430,497 ratings
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Go the F*** to Sleep
Go the F*** to Sleep 4.28 avg rating — 89,608 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 4.45 avg rating — 96,067 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars 4.12 avg rating — 5,580,875 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,669 ratings
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The Marriage Plot
The Marriage Plot 3.47 avg rating — 123,507 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,097 ratings
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 4.03 avg rating — 66,780 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 1,266,892 ratings
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The Art of Fielding
The Art of Fielding 3.99 avg rating — 115,136 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,600 ratings
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The Buddha in the Attic
The Buddha in the Attic 3.70 avg rating — 62,381 ratings
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American Dervish
American Dervish 3.71 avg rating — 9,386 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,839 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created 4.12 avg rating — 20,586 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry 3.95 avg rating — 155,562 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 4.06 avg rating — 84,152 ratings
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual 3.99 avg rating — 48,348 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink 3.78 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age 3.79 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,238,827 ratings
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Lake Wobegon Days
Lake Wobegon Days 3.64 avg rating — 8,324 ratings
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Impatient with Desire
Impatient with Desire 3.66 avg rating — 706 ratings
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Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade 3.96 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon 4.24 avg rating — 64,215 ratings
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work 3.75 avg rating — 10,822 ratings
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Blue Highways
Blue Highways 4.03 avg rating — 24,992 ratings
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Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story 3.53 avg rating — 11,963 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating — 564,597 ratings
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World 3.90 avg rating — 46,988 ratings
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss 3.95 avg rating — 61,685 ratings
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Searching for Tamsen Donner
Searching for Tamsen Donner 3.79 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family
Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family 3.75 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
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I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project 3.89 avg rating — 3,685 ratings
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Theodore Rex
Theodore Rex 4.18 avg rating — 50,659 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,488 ratings
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The Submission
The Submission 3.67 avg rating — 12,684 ratings
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress 3.19 avg rating — 32,481 ratings
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Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe 3.91 avg rating — 3,364 ratings
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest 4.27 avg rating — 4,653 ratings
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The Visible Man
The Visible Man 3.74 avg rating — 9,447 ratings
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,835 ratings
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Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance 3.67 avg rating — 655 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base 3.86 avg rating — 10,397 ratings
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War
War 4.25 avg rating — 23,757 ratings
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings 3.76 avg rating — 10,409 ratings
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible! 3.46 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible 3.76 avg rating — 68,669 ratings
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives 4.12 avg rating — 22,825 ratings
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The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America 3.93 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries 3.82 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Opera
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Opera 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered
Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered 3.99 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 4.04 avg rating — 44,513 ratings
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found 3.94 avg rating — 11,197 ratings
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Half a Life
Half a Life 3.58 avg rating — 4,930 ratings
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Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America
Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America 3.71 avg rating — 969 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 4.36 avg rating — 36,106 ratings
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Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,972 ratings
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Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes 4.54 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
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Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty
Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty 4.05 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Clock Without a Face
The Clock Without a Face 3.78 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk 3.39 avg rating — 64,674 ratings
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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles 3.73 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Born Liars: Why We Can't Live without Deceit
Born Liars: Why We Can't Live without Deceit 3.86 avg rating — 619 ratings
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Under the Udala Trees
Under the Udala Trees 4.03 avg rating — 14,270 ratings
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My Lobotomy: A Memoir
My Lobotomy: A Memoir 3.76 avg rating — 14,250 ratings
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage 4.01 avg rating — 38,355 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,401 ratings
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Population: 485
Population: 485 3.93 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
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How Shakespeare Changed Everything
How Shakespeare Changed Everything 3.39 avg rating — 644 ratings
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The Cat's Table
The Cat's Table 3.62 avg rating — 27,174 ratings
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Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 51,663 ratings
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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible 3.78 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 4.17 avg rating — 179,636 ratings
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The Patron Saint of Liars
The Patron Saint of Liars 3.90 avg rating — 65,282 ratings
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The Prague Cemetery
The Prague Cemetery 3.51 avg rating — 29,534 ratings
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Generation A
Generation A 3.52 avg rating — 7,666 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined 4.16 avg rating — 29,270 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927 4.10 avg rating — 53,983 ratings
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs 4.15 avg rating — 1,331,244 ratings
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 3.91 avg rating — 7,066 ratings
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Terrorists In Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
Terrorists In Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals 3.89 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage 3.45 avg rating — 55,708 ratings
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NPR Sunday Puzzles
NPR Sunday Puzzles 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings
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I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy 3.60 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Borrow: The American Way of Debt
Borrow: The American Way of Debt 3.87 avg rating — 204 ratings
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The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared 3.67 avg rating — 6,777 ratings
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Radio On: A Listener's Diary
Radio On: A Listener's Diary 3.44 avg rating — 1,591 ratings
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany 4.21 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
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The Poets Laureate Anthology
The Poets Laureate Anthology 4.26 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Unlikely Brothers
Unlikely Brothers 3.86 avg rating — 190 ratings
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All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
by: Dave Isay
4.04 avg rating — 2,770 ratings
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The World's Religions
The World's Religions 4.04 avg rating — 13,797 ratings
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