| #2 |  Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
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| #3 |  Humankind: A Hopeful History
| 4.33 | 87 reads | |
| #4 |  How To Read Castles How To Read Castles
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| #5 |  Amsterdam A History of the World's Most Liberal City
| 3.5 | 12 reads | |
| #6 |  A Short History of Nearly Everything
| 4.23 | 577 reads | |
| #7 |  Stalin
| 4.33 | 12 reads | |
| #8 |  These Truths: A History of the United States
| 4.23 | 47 reads | |
| #9 |  Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country
| 4.17 | 7 reads | |
| #10 |  Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
| 4.56 | 196 reads | |
| #11 |  We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
| 4.42 | 42 reads | |
| #12 |  The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
| 4 | 4 reads | |
| #13 |  Once Upon a Time in Iraq
| 4 | 1 read | |
| #14 |  The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
| 4.12 | 54 reads | |
| #15 |  The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
| 4 | 2 reads | |
| #16 |  Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
| 4.28 | 42 reads | |
| #17 |  To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
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| #18 |  Unwell Women
| 4.25 | 13 reads | |
| #19 |  The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
| 4.03 | 17 reads | |
| #20 |  Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
| 3.25 | 4 reads | |
| #21 |  Afghanistan Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
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| #22 |  Red Famine
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| #23 |  The Kite Runner
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| #24 |  Kindred
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| #25 |  King Leopold's Ghost
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| #26 | A Village in the Third Reich A Village in the Third Reich
| 4.5 | 3 reads | |
| #27 |  Chernobyl Prayer
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