Non-Fiction that reads like fiction

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,725 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,310 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 3.92 avg rating — 289,190 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,072,758 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,523 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin 3.89 avg rating — 215,176 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,525 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.84 avg rating — 120,599 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,138 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating — 436,091 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,935 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 786,994 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Six Wives of Henry VIII 4.12 avg rating — 72,136 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History 4.05 avg rating — 70,006 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 — 550,917 ratings
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Call the Midwife
Call the Midwife 4.19 avg rating — 77,377 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea 4.12 avg rating — 117,721 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 — 96,053 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love 3.64 avg rating — 1,819,734 ratings
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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember 4.09 avg rating — 27,686 ratings
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 81,420 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,424 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 61,490 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon 3.90 avg rating — 106,811 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,737 ratings
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World 3.87 avg rating — 62,006 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President 4.22 avg rating — 81,268 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus 4.16 avg rating — 119,579 ratings
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The Children of Henry VIII
The Children of Henry VIII 4.01 avg rating — 15,352 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
In a Sunburned Country 4.07 avg rating — 119,150 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,271 ratings
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A Civil Action
A Civil Action 3.99 avg rating — 16,812 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon 4.24 avg rating — 64,199 ratings
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Shadow Divers
Shadow Divers 4.36 avg rating — 34,833 ratings
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John Adams
John Adams 4.08 avg rating — 373,219 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,289 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,442 ratings
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Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives (Midwife Trilogy #3)
Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives (Midwife Trilogy #3) 4.30 avg rating — 18,936 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road 4.16 avg rating — 93,081 ratings
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I've Got Some Lovin' to Do: The Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen, 1925-1926
I've Got Some Lovin' to Do: The Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen, 1925-1926 3.91 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood
The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood 4.18 avg rating — 131 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,205 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,679 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black 3.72 avg rating — 204,758 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Seabiscuit: An American Legend 4.23 avg rating — 167,136 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith 4.01 avg rating — 220,430 ratings
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures During World War II
Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures During World War II 4.06 avg rating — 532 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
by: Anonymous
4.29 avg rating — 17,073 ratings
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall 4.37 avg rating — 12,275 ratings
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As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier
As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier 4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture 4.12 avg rating — 540 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,411 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song 4.05 avg rating — 22,784 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings
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Mornings on Horseback
Mornings on Horseback 4.10 avg rating — 34,705 ratings
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Shadows of the Workhouse
Shadows of the Workhouse 4.17 avg rating — 26,831 ratings
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Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope 4.07 avg rating — 9,706 ratings
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective 3.51 avg rating — 24,676 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life 3.99 avg rating — 97,412 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America 3.81 avg rating — 63,777 ratings
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland 4.25 avg rating — 62,172 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 425,908 ratings
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The Singularity is Coming: The Artificial Intelligence Explosion
The Singularity is Coming: The Artificial Intelligence Explosion 4.32 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Adventures of a Railway Nomad: How Our Journeys Guide Us Home
Adventures of a Railway Nomad: How Our Journeys Guide Us Home 3.80 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living Abroad
Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living Abroad 3.98 avg rating — 341 ratings
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer 4.26 avg rating — 15,186 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.94 avg rating — 107,262 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,529 ratings
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The Bookseller of Kabul
The Bookseller of Kabul 3.77 avg rating — 56,002 ratings
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times 4.01 avg rating — 9,613 ratings
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Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck 3.78 avg rating — 55,020 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner 4.06 avg rating — 60,117 ratings
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle 3.64 avg rating — 20,491 ratings
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Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders 3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,450 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating — 239,787 ratings
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime 4.13 avg rating — 22,713 ratings
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 455,029 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,435 ratings
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Uncorked : My year in Provence studying pétanque, discovering Chagall, drinking pastis, and mangling French
Uncorked : My year in Provence studying pétanque, discovering Chagall, drinking pastis, and mangling French 3.81 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Murder of a Medici Princess
Murder of a Medici Princess 3.94 avg rating — 1,333 ratings
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Red Scarf Girl
Red Scarf Girl 3.79 avg rating — 16,931 ratings
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana 4.06 avg rating — 10,155 ratings
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Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)
Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 72,259 ratings
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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana 3.80 avg rating — 37,392 ratings
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission 4.25 avg rating — 38,775 ratings
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The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly 3.98 avg rating — 76,130 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey 3.91 avg rating — 31,793 ratings
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 3.94 avg rating — 67,457 ratings
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The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits 3.63 avg rating — 3,846 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 224,916 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,409 ratings
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Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic
Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic 3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Essence of Being
Essence of Being 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Angelic Realm: Discovering The Spiritual World and Its Healing Powers
The Angelic Realm: Discovering The Spiritual World and Its Healing Powers 4.23 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,647 ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 4.19 avg rating — 28,140 ratings
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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up 3.79 avg rating — 22,902 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 365,555 ratings
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Riding Rockets
Riding Rockets 4.20 avg rating — 4,847 ratings
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