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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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The Wager

By David Grann ,

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Caste

By Isabel Wilkerson ,

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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The Dawn of Everything

By David Graeber , David Wengrow ,

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Humankind: A Hopeful History
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Humankind

By Rutger Bregman , Erica Moore (translator) , Elizabeth Manton (translator)

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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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How the Word Is Passed

By Clint Smith ,

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A Fever In The Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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A Fever In The Heartland

By Timothy Egan ,

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Nexus
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Nexus

By Yuval Noah Harari ,

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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The Demon of Unrest

By Erik Larson ,

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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The Wide Wide Sea

By Hampton Sides ,

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America's Black Capital
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America's Black Capital

By Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar ,

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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King Leopold's Ghost

By Adam Hochschild ,

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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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Children of Ash and Elm

By Neil Price ,

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You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
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You Don't Belong Here

By Elizabeth Becker ,

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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Empire of Pain

By Patrick Radden Keefe ,

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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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The Splendid and the Vile

By Erik Larson ,

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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The 1619 Project

By Nikole Hannah-Jones ,

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

By Rashid Khalidi ,

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Spare
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Spare

By Prince Harry ,

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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Master Slave Husband Wife

By Ilyon Woo ,

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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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All That She Carried

By Tiya Miles ,

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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
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The Happiest Man on Earth

By Eddie Jaku ,

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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
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Brave the Wild River

By Melissa L. Sevigny ,

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King: A Life
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King

By Jonathan Eig ,

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
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Unruly

By David Mitchell ,

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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
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Autocracy, Inc.

By Anne Applebaum ,

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

By Adam Higginbotham ,

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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
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Fifth Sun

By Camilla Townsend ,

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Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
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Tacky's Revolt

By Vincent Brown ,

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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
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Christ Stopped at Eboli

By Carlo Levi , Frances Frenaye (translator) ,

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The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
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The Ratline

By Philippe Sands ,

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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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Vanguard

By Martha S. Jones ,

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Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement
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Recasting the Vote

By Cathleen D. Cahill ,

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By Andreas Malm ,

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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
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The Facemaker

By Lindsey Fitzharris ,

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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
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The Woman They Could Not Silence

By Kate Moore ,

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The Boston Massacre: A Family History
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The Boston Massacre

By Serena Zabin ,

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Poverty, by America
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Poverty, by America

By Matthew Desmond ,

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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
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The Russo-Ukrainian War

By Serhii Plokhy ,

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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
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Prisoners of the Castle

By Ben Macintyre ,

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
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Wifedom

By Anna Funder ,

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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
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The Black Angels

By Maria Smilios ,

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

By Tim Alberta ,

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Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
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Time's Echo

By Jeremy Eichler ,

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Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gambling with Armageddon

By Martin J. Sherwin ,

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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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The WEIRDest People in the World

By Joseph Henrich ,

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The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
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The Ravine

By Wendy Lower ,

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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
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Crusade for Justice

By Ida B. Wells ,

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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Hood Feminism

By Mikki Kendall ,

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The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
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The Women with Silver Wings

By Katherine Sharp Landdeck ,

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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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The Sirens of Mars

By Sarah Stewart Johnson ,

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The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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The Idea of the Brain

By Matthew Cobb ,

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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
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Islands of Abandonment

By Cal Flyn ,

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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
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Aftermath

By Harald Jähner , Shaun Whiteside (translator) ,

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You Should See Me in a Crown
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You Should See Me in a Crown

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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Of Woman Born

By Adrienne Rich ,

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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
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Born in Blackness

By Howard W. French ,

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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial

By Deborah Cohen ,

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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
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American Midnight

By Adam Hochschild ,

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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

By Gary Gerstle ,

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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
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Empireland

By Sathnam Sanghera ,

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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
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Madame Restell

By Jennifer Wright ,

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My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
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My Hijacking

By Martha Hodes ,

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
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We Don't Know Ourselves

By Fintan O'Toole ,

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Elon Musk
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Elon Musk

By Walter Isaacson ,

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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
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Invitation to a Banquet

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By Julian Sancton ,

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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
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Democracy Awakening

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From Here to the Great Unknown
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From Here to the Great Unknown

By Lisa Marie Presley , Riley Keough ,

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Patriot: A Memoir
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Patriot

By Alexei Navalny ,

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Karla's Choice
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Karla's Choice

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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain

By Ron Chernow ,

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River Kings
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River Kings

By Cat Jarman ,

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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It
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The Upswing

By Robert D. Putnam ,

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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
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The Tyranny of Merit

By Michael J. Sandel ,

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Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
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Lincoln on the Verge

By Ted Widmer ,

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Meditations: The Annotated Edition
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Meditations

By Marcus Aurelius , Robin Waterfield (translator) ,

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The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War
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The International Brigades

By Giles Tremlett ,

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The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
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The Napoleonic Wars

By Alexander Mikaberidze ,

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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
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The Knowledge Machine

By Michael Strevens ,

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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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