5 best-selling nonfiction books like Ponary Diary, 1941 - 1943: A Bystander's Account Of A Mass Murder by Kazimierz Sakowicz

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Ponary Diary, 1941 - 1943: A Bystander's Account Of A Mass Murder

By: Kazimierz Sakowicz

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-d…

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1. Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne

3.88

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more

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"Meat, ma'am, meat."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"Please, sir, I want some more."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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2. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

By: Christopher R. Browning

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • holocaust
"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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3. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Gullibility kills."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

4. The Historian

By: Elizabeth Kostova

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition for  To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, e… read more

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5. At Home: A Short History of Private Life

By: Bill Bryson

3.99

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."

-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."

-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."

-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."

-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

6. Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden

By: Kim Leine

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I en lille koloni pa Vestgronland i 1793 bliver en kvinde sparket ud over en klippe og falder i dod… read more

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7. Elektra

By: Jennifer Saint

3.68

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeanc… read more

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"I had not dreamed I would bring my children into a world that could drain their blood in the light of dawn before they’d had a chance to live at all."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"The wine tasted like dirt to me. I could shriek out my warnings, claw at my flesh, hurl my goblet right into Paris' face, but they would still carry on as though I did not exist."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me…"

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

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8. Ottolenghi Simple

By: Yotam Ottolenghi

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A collection of 130 easy, flavor-forward recipes from beloved chef Yotam Ottolenghi. In Ottoleng… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)

By: J.M. Miro

3.79

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His … read more

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"Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other."

-J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)

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10. Ponary Diary, 1941 - 1943: A Bystander's Account Of A Mass Murder

By: Kazimierz Sakowicz

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-d… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • diary
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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11. Rød mand/Sort mand (Grønlands-trilogi, #2)

By: Kim Leine

3.92

Format: 520 pages, ebook

Rød mand/Sort mand er en selvstændig efterfølger til Kim Leines prisbelønnede bestseller Profeterne… read more

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