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Time Magazine’s Top 100 Nonfiction Books

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Name the books listed by Time magazine in 2011 as the top 100 English nonficition books since the magazine’s inception in 1923. Author shown. First two words accepted for longer titles.

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spuriousname

10 years ago

Looks like there might be some author-book mismatches on this one, especially on the second page.

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darin

10 years ago

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ahh fixing now.

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