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1

A Gentleman in Moscow

9,246 members

523 reviews

½ 4.4

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2

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

by Katherine Boo

4,399 members

294 reviews

4.1

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3

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,673 members

342 reviews

3.8

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4

by Neal Stephenson

8,980 members

162 reviews

3.9

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5

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

6,989 members

347 reviews

½ 4.3

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6

6,581 members

284 reviews

4.1

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7

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

6,290 members

315 reviews

4.1

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8

by Richard Powers

5,467 members

249 reviews

4.1

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9

by Jacqueline Winspear

4,844 members

272 reviews

3.8

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10

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

4,726 members

88 reviews

4.1

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11

by John Crowley

4,207 members

115 reviews

4

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12

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

3,565 members

54 reviews

½ 4.5

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13

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

3,200 members

106 reviews

4.1

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14

The Essex Serpent

3,190 members

175 reviews

½ 3.6

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15

A Column of Fire

2,986 members

91 reviews

4

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16

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

2,879 members

72 reviews

4.1

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17

Here Be Dragons

by Sharon Kay Penman

2,582 members

60 reviews

½ 4.3

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18

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

2,582 members

47 reviews

½ 4.3

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19

2,447 members

99 reviews

½ 3.5

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20

The Sunne in Splendour

by Sharon Kay Penman

2,390 members

78 reviews

½ 4.4

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21

2,362 members

61 reviews

½ 4.5

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22

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

by Christopher Clark

2,091 members

53 reviews

4.2

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23

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker

2,034 members

58 reviews

4.1

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24

by Steven Brust

1,850 members

48 reviews

4

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25

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

by Sarah Bakewell

1,568 members

42 reviews

4.2

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26

We, the Drowned

by Carsten Jensen

1,525 members

50 reviews

4.1

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27

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder

1,522 members

51 reviews

4.2

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28

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

by Ben Macintyre

1,515 members

131 reviews

4.1

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29

Women & Power: A Manifesto

1,348 members

50 reviews

4

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30

The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

by Chris Wickham

1,161 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

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31

The Greenlanders

1,143 members

33 reviews

3.8

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32

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

1,132 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

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33

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

by Jason Fagone

1,067 members

47 reviews

4.1

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34

by Meljean Brook

1,051 members

84 reviews

3.9

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35

The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

by Colin Woodard

1,024 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

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36

Libraries in the Ancient World

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1,016 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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37

964 members

55 reviews

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38

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

by David W. Anthony

943 members

29 reviews

4

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39

Mercy Thompson: Homecoming

by Patricia Briggs

797 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

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40

Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

794 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

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41

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

789 members

38 reviews

4

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42

The slave ship. A human history

by Marcus Rediker

702 members

7 reviews

3.8

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43

The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

by Bryan Ward-Perkins

670 members

15 reviews

4

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44

The Book of the New Sun

640 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

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45

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

by David I. Kertzer

373 members

13 reviews

4.2

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46

by Anthony Hyde

370 members

2 reviews

3.2

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47

Wine of the Dreamers

by John D. MacDonald

282 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

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48

All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir

279 members

20 reviews

½ 4.4

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49

Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

by Nell Painter

256 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

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50

Woman at 1,000 Degrees

by Hallgrímur Helgason

225 members

12 reviews

4

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51

Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949

by David Cesarani

206 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

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52

The Ancient Mariners

by Lionel Casson

186 members

5 reviews

4.1

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53

The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It

by John W. Dean

172 members

2 reviews

3.9

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54

The Ballad of a Small Player

by Lawrence Osborne

141 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

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55

The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

by Craig Nelson

135 members

4 reviews

3.9

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56

Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed

by Judy Pasternak

135 members

2 reviews

3.9

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57

Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

by James Suzman

128 members

2 reviews

3.8

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58

The Dresden Files: The Complete First Season

by Hans Beimler

113 members

3.9

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59

The Floating Republic

by G. E. Manwaring

56 members

3 reviews

4.2

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60

The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla

by Yay Panlilio

7 members

5

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61

by Phillip Roughton

2 members

5

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62

Franklin D. Roosevelt a rendezvous with destiny

by Frank Freidel

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