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The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 5823 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,105,210 ratings — published 1947
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 4854 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 390,355 ratings — published 2001
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 3499 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 345,666 ratings — published 2000
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 3438 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 217,443 ratings — published 2002
Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 3277 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 437,655 ratings — published 1996
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 3074 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 220,741 ratings — published 2008
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 2978 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 414,841 ratings — published 1955
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 2968 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.40 — 841,958 ratings — published 2006
Bossypants (Audio CD)
by Tina Fey (shelved 2841 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 262,979 ratings — published 2011
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 2796 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 135,339 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 2749 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 155,762 ratings — published 1997
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 2743 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 136,678 ratings — published 2003
In Cold Blood (Trade Paperback)
by Truman Capote (shelved 2675 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 340,049 ratings — published 1965
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by Eric Schlosser (shelved 2575 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 220,960 ratings — published 2001
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 2561 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 242,141 ratings — published 1997
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2555 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 95,614 ratings — published 2003
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2552 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.66 — 253,854 ratings — published 2006
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich (shelved 2320 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.55 — 178,160 ratings — published 2001
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by Susan Cain (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2257 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 130,830 ratings — published 2012
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 2211 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 144,048 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2191 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 123,417 ratings — published 2006
On Writing (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 2140 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 92,191 ratings — published 2000
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 2091 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 490,775 ratings — published 2000
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 1921 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,978 ratings — published 2003
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Paperback)
by Lynne Truss (shelved 1892 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 67,925 ratings — published 2003
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 1691 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 87,003 ratings — published 2008
The Last Lecture (Hardcover)
by Randy Pausch (shelved 1685 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 175,550 ratings — published 2008
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1673 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 235,498 ratings — published 2010
Angela's Ashes (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 1646 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 245,472 ratings — published 1996
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 1638 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,517 ratings — published 1988
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Hardcover)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 1542 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 96,455 ratings — published 2007
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1539 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 101,085 ratings — published 2011
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by Anthony Bourdain (shelved 1498 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 107,132 ratings — published 2000
A Child Called "It" (Paperback)
by Dave Pelzer (shelved 1421 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 204,707 ratings — published 1992
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1403 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,185 ratings — published 1985
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by John Grogan (shelved 1392 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 199,877 ratings — published 2005
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1378 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.50 — 107,888 ratings — published 2003
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 1371 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 64,034 ratings — published 1998
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 1321 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 231,569 ratings — published 2002
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Paperback)
by Howard Zinn (shelved 1305 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 96,713 ratings — published 1980
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by Mindy Kaling (shelved 1278 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 129,136 ratings — published 2011
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1271 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 37,149 ratings — published 2008
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by John Berendt (shelved 1270 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 116,972 ratings — published 1994
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 1226 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,925 ratings — published 2010
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Hardcover)
by Jon Ronson (shelved 1190 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 68,455 ratings — published
“To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Total Health For Life: Mind & Body, What the Diet & Fitnesss Gurus Forgot to Tell You
1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm — 3 people liked it
1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm — 3 people liked it
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