Fresh Air 2016

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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,229 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating — 488,825 ratings
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy 4.14 avg rating — 44,127 ratings
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The Prince of Tides
The Prince of Tides 4.26 avg rating — 213,988 ratings
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The Great Santini
The Great Santini 4.16 avg rating — 34,305 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating — 26,730 ratings
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Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia 3.94 avg rating — 2,391 ratings
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck 3.77 avg rating — 2,591 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War 3.94 avg rating — 22,976 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,335 ratings
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All the Single Ladies
All the Single Ladies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,281 ratings
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Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape 4.07 avg rating — 11,169 ratings
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
by: Larry Tye
4.39 avg rating — 2,582 ratings
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst 3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings
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The Princess Diarist
The Princess Diarist 3.70 avg rating — 88,150 ratings
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My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1)
My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 182,214 ratings
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God Help the Child
God Help the Child 3.78 avg rating — 31,720 ratings
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Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel 4.14 avg rating — 11,261 ratings
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One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
by: Mei Fong
3.96 avg rating — 3,257 ratings
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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
by: Dan Lyons
3.91 avg rating — 16,990 ratings
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War 3.90 avg rating — 3,124 ratings
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Hollywood Hoofbeats: Trails Blazed Across The Silver Screen
Hollywood Hoofbeats: Trails Blazed Across The Silver Screen 4.30 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget 4.04 avg rating — 22,968 ratings
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Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)
Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series) 3.78 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 4.22 avg rating — 3,619 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating — 54,021 ratings
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening 3.89 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon
Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon 4.37 avg rating — 2,021 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 — 778,796 ratings
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins 4.21 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future 3.87 avg rating — 4,503 ratings
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Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump
Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump 4.06 avg rating — 1,526 ratings
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To 3.97 avg rating — 10,639 ratings
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4.06 avg rating — 76,893 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 — 13,681 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by: Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,338 ratings
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My Father, the Pornographer
My Father, the Pornographer 3.62 avg rating — 2,023 ratings
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The Ballad of Black Tom
The Ballad of Black Tom 3.84 avg rating — 32,627 ratings
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A Cancer in the Family: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance
A Cancer in the Family: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance 4.12 avg rating — 184 ratings
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America 3.91 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body 4.09 avg rating — 3,692 ratings
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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers 3.60 avg rating — 2,809 ratings
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Another Brooklyn
Another Brooklyn 3.87 avg rating — 41,162 ratings
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Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation 3.78 avg rating — 864 ratings
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First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat 3.89 avg rating — 3,452 ratings
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The Whites
The Whites 3.64 avg rating — 10,855 ratings
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad 3.62 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
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Alice & Oliver
Alice & Oliver 3.23 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity 4.29 avg rating — 17,217 ratings
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 132,999 ratings
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America 4.31 avg rating — 3,488 ratings
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Consequence: A Memoir
Consequence: A Memoir
by: Eric Fair
3.82 avg rating — 738 ratings
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A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight
A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight 4.24 avg rating — 1,391 ratings
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Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet 3.75 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World
Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World 3.73 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 17,106 ratings
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The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace
The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace 3.81 avg rating — 230 ratings
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The Seven Good Years
The Seven Good Years 4.15 avg rating — 8,951 ratings
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They May Not Mean To, But They Do
They May Not Mean To, But They Do 3.57 avg rating — 5,371 ratings
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Swing Time
Swing Time 3.56 avg rating — 76,236 ratings
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Today Will Be Different
Today Will Be Different 3.16 avg rating — 70,578 ratings
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Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind The Secret Plan To Steal America's Democracy
Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind The Secret Plan To Steal America's Democracy 4.15 avg rating — 1,307 ratings
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Sweetbitter
Sweetbitter 3.33 avg rating — 77,682 ratings
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Disgruntled
Disgruntled 3.66 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right 3.92 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell 3.75 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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The Art of Memoir
The Art of Memoir
by: Mary Karr
4.14 avg rating — 8,176 ratings
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America 4.39 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating — 91,858 ratings
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American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridge to Redemption
American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridge to Redemption
by: Matt Katz
3.86 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,767 ratings
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United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists
United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists 4.07 avg rating — 896 ratings
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Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion 3.82 avg rating — 309 ratings
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A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression 3.75 avg rating — 2,207 ratings
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Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World 4.11 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America
Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America 3.77 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family
Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family 3.90 avg rating — 1,753 ratings
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The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific
The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific 3.90 avg rating — 435 ratings
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1924: The Year That Made Hitler
1924: The Year That Made Hitler 3.97 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook
The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook 3.98 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children 3.97 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave 3.93 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Honky Tonk Samurai (Hap and Leonard #9)
Honky Tonk Samurai (Hap and Leonard #9) 3.96 avg rating — 2,449 ratings
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The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin
The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin 4.03 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Bullies: A Friendship
Bullies: A Friendship 3.30 avg rating — 494 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond 4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates
Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates 3.72 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom's, Which I Know Sounds Weird)
Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom's, Which I Know Sounds Weird) 3.83 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
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My Life on the Road
My Life on the Road 4.07 avg rating — 36,280 ratings
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The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports 4.20 avg rating — 4,129 ratings
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The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty 3.45 avg rating — 7,518 ratings
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The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults 3.77 avg rating — 5,910 ratings
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Scary Old Sex
Scary Old Sex 3.48 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Loving Day
Loving Day 3.54 avg rating — 3,959 ratings
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Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power
Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power 3.96 avg rating — 437 ratings
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I Was a Child
I Was a Child 3.70 avg rating — 817 ratings
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A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster
A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster 3.99 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
by: John Doe
4.10 avg rating — 2,205 ratings
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The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop 3.79 avg rating — 2,699 ratings
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Born to Run
Born to Run 4.19 avg rating — 53,081 ratings
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