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Poor Things
By Alasdair Gray
4.2 / 5 • 68 ratings

A Novel

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Bedtime Biography: Long Walk to Freedom
By Nelson Mandela
4.6 / 5 • 86 ratings

The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

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The Prince and the Pauper
By Mark Twain
4.6 / 5 • 199 ratings

A Tale of Two Mirrored Fates

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American Prometheus
By Kai Bird & Martin J Sherwin
4.3 / 5 • 214 ratings

The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
By James Shapiro
4.4 / 5 • 138 ratings

1599

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Reagan
By H. W. Brands
4.3 / 5 • 188 ratings

The Life

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Native Son
By Richard Wright
3.8 / 5 • 5 ratings

A Harrowing Tale of Injustice

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Blood Meridian
By Cormac McCarthy
4.8 / 5 • 12 ratings

Or the Evening Redness in the West

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The Happiest Man on Earth
By Eddie Jaku
4.7 / 5 • 444 ratings

The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

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Alexander the Great
By Philip Freeman
4.6 / 5 • 351 ratings

The Macedonian who conquered the world

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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
By Ralph Watson McElvenny & Marc Wortman
4.2 / 5 • 18 ratings

Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age

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His Truth Is Marching On
By Jon Meacham and John Lewis
4.2 / 5 • 29 ratings

John Lewis and the Power of Hope

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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
By Melissa Fleming
4.6 / 5 • 7 ratings

One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

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An Ordinary Man
By Richard Norton Smith
4.5 / 5 • 30 ratings

The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

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The Reader
By Bernhard Schlink
0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

A Novel

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Astor
By Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
4.3 / 5 • 203 ratings

The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Midnight's Children
By Salman Rushdie
3.8 / 5 • 111 ratings

Experience a Magical Journey Through India’s Tumultuous History

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Bedtime Biography: Vindication
By Lyndall Gordon
4.7 / 5 • 235 ratings

A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

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The Volunteer
By Jack Fairweather
4.8 / 5 • 73 ratings

One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

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The Warmth of Other Suns
By Isabel Wilkerson
4.4 / 5 • 105 ratings

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Thirteen Days
By Robert F. Kennedy
3.4 / 5 • 100 ratings

A Memoir Of The Cuban Missile Crisis

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Florence Nightingale
By Cecil Woodham-Smith
4.7 / 5 • 81 ratings

1820–1910

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The Remains of the Day
By Kazuo Ishiguro
4.1 / 5 • 108 ratings

Echoes of Grandeur and Heartache Resonate Through a Stately Home

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.6 / 5 • 280 ratings

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By Gawain Poet
4.7 / 5 • 3 ratings

A Knight’s Test of Honor, Temptation, and Truth

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Nine Lives
By Aimen Dean with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister
4.3 / 5 • 46 ratings

My Time As MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda

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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
By Rebecca Donner
4.5 / 5 • 159 ratings

The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

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Some People Need Killing
By Patricia Evangelista
4.4 / 5 • 104 ratings

A Memoir of Murder in My Country

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Napoleon’s Buttons
By Penny LeCouter & Jay Burreson
4.5 / 5 • 75 ratings

How 17 Molecules Changed History

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Origin Story
By David Christian
4.3 / 5 • 160 ratings

A Big History of Everything

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Nine Lives
By William Dalrymple
4.2 / 5 • 95 ratings

In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

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Lives of the Stoics
By Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
4.4 / 5 • 1501 ratings

The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

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Electra
By Sophocles
3.3 / 5 • 73 ratings

Vengeance and Justice in Mycenae

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The Trojan Women
By Euripides
4.0 / 5 • 83 ratings

A Tragedy of Survival and Loss

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The Fate of Rome
By Kyle Harper
4.4 / 5 • 492 ratings

Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

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The Happiness Fantasy
By Carl Cederström
3.8 / 5 • 58 ratings

A history of happiness

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Adrift
By Scott Galloway
4.3 / 5 • 317 ratings

America in 100 Charts

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This Is Your Mind on Plants
By Michael Pollan
4.3 / 5 • 312 ratings

Examining the Human Attraction to Consciousness Altering Plants

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The Mosquito Bowl
By Buzz Bissinger
4.3 / 5 • 11 ratings

A Game of Life and Death in World War II

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All the Sinners Bleed
By S. A. Cosby
4.2 / 5 • 14 ratings

A Novel

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The Spy and the Traitor
By Ben Macintyre
4.6 / 5 • 105 ratings

The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

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Fear
By Joanna Bourke
3.8 / 5 • 65 ratings

A Cultural History

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The Rights of Man
By Thomas Paine
0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

A bold defense of liberty and equality.

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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
By Ian Morris
4.0 / 5 • 237 ratings

How Human Values Evolve

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Prequel
By Rachel Maddow
4.0 / 5 • 146 ratings

An American Fight Against Fascism

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
By Bill Bryson
4.5 / 5 • 1498 ratings

A journey into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer

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The Metaphysics
By Aristotle
4.3 / 5 • 51 ratings

Dive into Ancient Philosophical Insights

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Democracy Awakening
By Heather Cox Richardson
3.6 / 5 • 70 ratings

Notes on the State of America

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The Federalist Papers
By Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
4.4 / 5 • 80 ratings

Blueprint for the American Republic

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The Things We Make
By Bill Hammack
4.3 / 5 • 202 ratings

The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

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Words Like Loaded Pistols
By Sam Leith
4.2 / 5 • 144 ratings

Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

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12 Years a Slave
By Solomon Northup
4.6 / 5 • 10 ratings

Explore the Harsh Reality of American Slavery

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Citizen
By Bill Clinton
0.0 / 5 • 0 ratings

My Life After the White House

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Bedtime Biography: Stasiland
By Anna Funder
4.6 / 5 • 296 ratings

Scenes From Behind the Berlin Wall

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Oath and Honor
By Liz Cheney
4.1 / 5 • 77 ratings

A Memoir and a Warning

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Songs of America
By Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw
4.0 / 5 • 28 ratings

Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation

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Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
By Hédi Fried
4.6 / 5 • 110 ratings

A survivor’s account of Auschwitz

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Brown Girl Dreaming
By Jacqueline Woodson
3.0 / 5 • 1 ratings

Unravel a Moving Tale of Childhood Dreams, Race, and Empowerment

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VISA
By Paul Chutkow
4.3 / 5 • 189 ratings

The Power of an Idea

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Get Well Soon
By Jennifer Wright
4.0 / 5 • 33 ratings

History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

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What Is the Bible?
By Rob Bell
4.0 / 5 • 203 ratings

How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

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Why The West Rules – For Now
By Ian Morris
4.3 / 5 • 87 ratings

The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

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Stamped from the Beginning
By Ibram X. Kendi
4.2 / 5 • 120 ratings

The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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The Third Chimpanzee
By Jared Diamond
4.3 / 5 • 200 ratings

The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

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Age of Anger
By Pankaj Mishra
3.6 / 5 • 70 ratings

A History of the Present

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The Geography of Bliss
By Eric Weiner
4.2 / 5 • 40 ratings

One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World

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Strangers in Their Own Land
By Arlie Russell Hochschild
3.8 / 5 • 34 ratings

Anger and Mourning on the American Right

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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
By Christopher Hitchens
4.4 / 5 • 126 ratings

The dark side of American foreign policy