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American Heiress

2016 • 34 Readers • 368 pages 3.9

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#3

The Wright Brothers

2015 • 161 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

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#4

The Devil in the White City

2002 • 1,149 Readers • 447 pages 4

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#5

When Books Went to War

2014 • 45 Readers • 267 pages 3.1

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#6

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

2005 • 93 Readers • 336 pages 3.6

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#7

Bitter Brew

2012 • 18 Readers • 396 pages 3.8

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#8

Unbroken

2010 • 499 Readers • 13h 57m 4.4

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#9

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

#2 of 3 in The Romanovs

2011 • 138 Readers • 625 pages 4.3

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#10

The Worst Hard Time

2005 • 140 Readers • 340 pages 4

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#11

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

2011 • 325 Readers • 448 pages 3.7

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#12

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

2010 • 484 Readers • 642 pages 4.5

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#13

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

2017 • 180 Readers • 401 pages 4.4

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#14

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

2017 • 88 Readers • 641 pages 4.2

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#15

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

2016 • 531 Readers • 404 pages 4.1

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#16

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

2018 • 14 Readers • 282 pages 4

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#17

Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

2016 • 17 Readers • 416 pages 3.6

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#18

The Darkest Year

2019 • 6 Readers • 384 pages 4

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#19

The Woman Who Smashed Codes

2017 • 95 Readers • 444 pages 4.3

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#20

Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving

2019 • 7 Readers • 12 pages 4.4

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#21

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

2018 • 622 Readers • 519 pages 4.5

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#22

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

2017 • 1,012 Readers • 416 pages 4.1

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#24

Being Heumann

2020 • 28 Readers • 240 pages 4.2

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#25

Rising Out of Hatred

2019 • 34 Readers • 306 pages 4.3

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#26

Caste

2020 • 721 Readers • 497 pages 4.4

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#27

She Come By It Natural

2020 • 34 Readers • 187 pages 4.1

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#28

What Were We Thinking

2021 • 3 Readers • 272 pages 3

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#29

How the South Won the Civil War

2020 • 36 Readers • 273 pages 3.4

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#30

American Baby

2022 • 19 Readers • 352 pages 4

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#31

The Last Million

2020 • 3 Readers • 672 pages

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#32

I Alone Can Fix It

2021 • 29 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

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#33

Landslide

#3 of 3 in The Trump Trilogy

2021 • 13 Readers • 336 pages 3.7

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#34

The Nineties

2022 • 252 Readers • 12h 3.7

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#35

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

2019 • 268 Readers • 513 pages 4.4

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#36

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

2022 • 54 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

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#37

Why We Did It

2022 • 7 Readers • 288 pages 3.4

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#38

Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother

2022 • 5 Readers • 400 pages 4

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#39

Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

2022 • 69 Readers • 349 pages 3.9

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#40

The Queen: Her Life

2022 • 3 Readers • 427 pages

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#41

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

2021 • 65 Readers • 237 pages 4.5

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#42

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

2020 • 28 Readers • 288 pages 4

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#43

Bad Jews

2022 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

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#44

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

2018 • 883 Readers • 339 pages 4.4

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#45

Where the Jews Aren't

2016 • 9 Readers 3.7

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#46

Indigenous Continent

2022 • 52 Readers • 592 pages 4.4

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#47

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

2018 • 17 Readers • 385 pages 4

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#48

Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

2023 • 37 Readers • 260 pages 3.9

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#50

Three minutes in Poland

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#51

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

2023 • 34 Readers 3.5

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#54

Lead Sister The Story of Karen Carpenter

2023 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

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#55

She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music

2020 • 2 Readers • 448 pages 4

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#56

Cover 0

34 Readers 4.1

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#57

My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

2023 • 3 Readers • 384 pages 4

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#58

Black AF History

2023 • 98 Readers • 288 pages 3.9

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#59

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

2023 • 74 Readers • 577 pages 4

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#60

George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle

2023 • 5 Readers • 512 pages 4

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#61

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

2021 • 701 Readers • 272 pages 3.9

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#62

Five Days at Memorial

2013 • 108 Readers • 546 pages 4.1

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#63

American Girls

2024 • 7 Readers 4

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#64

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

2024 • 18 Readers 4

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#66

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

2024 • 8 Readers 3

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#68

The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters

2018 • 1 Reader • 386 pages

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#69

The Bookshop

2024 • 77 Readers • 417 pages 4

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#70

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

2024 • 15 Readers • 337 pages 3.1

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#71

The Message

2024 • 168 Readers • 257 pages 4.5

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#72

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

2024 • 90 Readers • 576 pages 4.4

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#73

The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography

2024 • 6 Readers 4

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#74

Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

2024 • 7 Readers • 336 pages 3.4

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#75

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

2021 • 94 Readers • 250 pages 4.2

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#76

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

2024 • 56 Readers • 545 pages 4.6

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#77

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

2024 • 30 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

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#78

The Many Lives of Anne Frank

2025 • 2 Readers • 441 pages 4

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