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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

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Just Kids

Patti Smith

2010 ★ 4.1

On Writing

Stephen King

2000 ★ 4.1

The ancient Near East

Daniel E. Fleming, James B. Pritchard

2011

The Global Soul

Pico Iyer

2001

African Laughter

Doris Lessing

1992

3096 Days

Natascha Kampusch

2010

Shoah

Claude Lanzmann

1985

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

2001 ★ 3.6

Stupid white men

Michael Moore

2001 ★ 2.8

Eiger Dreams

Jon Krakauer

1997

The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-38

Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi

2007

Russia

David K. Shipler

1983

Inés del alma mía

Isabel Allende

2006 ★ 4.3

Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli

Fabio Geda

2010

Pole to pole with Michael Palin

Basil Pao, Michael Palin

1992

Keeping Faith

Jimmy Carter

1982

A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

Hervé Guibert

1991 ★ 4.0

Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

1632

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

1950 ★ 4.2

The Kennedys and Cuba

Mark J. White

1999

The unspeakable

Stephen A. Tyler

1987

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet A. Jacobs

1861 ★ 3.9

I Feel Bad About My Neck

Nora Ephron

2006 ★ 3.3

Der blaue Himmel

Galsan Tschinag

1996

Letters and dispatches, 1924-1944

Raoul Wallenberg

1995

Ordinary Men

Christopher R. Browning

1992 ★ 4.0

Fashion foundations

Joanne Bubolz Eicher, Kim K. P. Johnson

2003

Encyclical Laborem exercens

Pope John Paul II

1981

Major problems in American foreign policy

Thomas G. Paterson

1978

The Master

Colm Tóibín

2004

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