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Metacanon ranks tens of thousands of written works using data pulled from Wikipedia, the New York Times archive, and user ratings—all using customizable weights and filters. Create your own version of the canon by adjusting the settings.

1. In Cold Blood (1966) · Truman Capote

5.37 | novel, nonfiction_novel, non_fiction

2. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) · John Berendt

5.08 | nonfiction_novel

3. Dispatches (1977) · Michael Herr

4.17 | nonfiction_novel

4. The Cuckoo's Egg (1989) · Clifford Stoll

3.52 | nonfiction_novel

5. Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label (2023) · Aaron Badgley

2.83 | novel, nonfiction_novel, non_fiction

6. The Fortune Men (2021) · Nadifa Mohamed

2.53 | nonfiction_novel

7. Operación Masacre (1957) · Rodolfo Walsh

2.30 | nonfiction_novel, non_fiction

8. The Cat Who Went to Paris (1991) · Peter Gethers

2.14 | nonfiction_novel

9. A Cat Abroad (1993) · Peter Gethers

1.73 | nonfiction_novel

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