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The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman
4.58 average rating, · 262k ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
4.20 average rating, · 4.3M ratings
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
4.57 average rating, · 69.2k ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
4.30 average rating, · 127.4k ratings
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell
4.34 average rating, · 102.4k ratings
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Survival in Auschwitz
Primo Levi
4.35 average rating, · 89.3k ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
4.16 average rating, · 196.1k ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Eugene B. Sledge
4.50 average rating, · 49.4k ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
4.23 average rating, · 126.5k ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
George Takei
4.42 average rating, · 56.6k ratings
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Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls
4.09 average rating, · 175.6k ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Loung Ung
4.36 average rating, · 55.9k ratings
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March: Book One
John Lewis
4.34 average rating, · 58k ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Miep Gies
4.31 average rating, · 66.8k ratings
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Jennifer Worth
4.19 average rating, · 80.4k ratings
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Chris Kyle
4.03 average rating, · 143k ratings
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The Best We Could Do
Thi Bui
4.35 average rating, · 41.3k ratings
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
Nadia Murad
4.48 average rating, · 29.4k ratings
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Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
4.09 average rating, · 74.4k ratings
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The Boy on the Wooden Box
Leon Leyson
4.38 average rating, · 30.5k ratings
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If This Is a Man / The Truce
Primo Levi
4.54 average rating, · 22.9k ratings
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Grass
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
4.54 average rating, · 21.4k ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
Edith Hahn Beer
4.17 average rating, · 49.6k ratings
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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Mark Owen
4.04 average rating, · 58.9k ratings
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