When Pride Still Mattered
1999★ 4.7
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Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Lawrence Weschler
2009★ 4.9
Magellan
1938★ 4.9
Into the Wild
1996★ 5.0
Last Train to Memphis
1994★ 5.1
The House of Morgan
1990★ 5.3
Virginia Woolf
1996★ 5.3
Coleridge
1989★ 5.4
Alexander Hamilton
2004★ 5.4
Hitler
2008★ 5.4
Catherine the Great
2011★ 5.5
Endurance
1959★ 5.6
Stalin
2015★ 5.7
Churchill
1991★ 5.9
Lincoln
1995★ 5.9
John Adams
2001★ 5.9
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
1979★ 6.0
W. E. B. Du Bois
1993★ 6.0
Washington
2010★ 6.3
Subtle Is the Lord
1982★ 6.5