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popular non-fiction books (showing 1-50 of 94,891)
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised and Expanded Edition)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 1337 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 73,642 ratings — published 2005
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 1303 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 150,553 ratings — published 1947
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Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 962 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 85,064 ratings — published 1996
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (shelved 905 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 61,974 ratings — published 2006
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Fast Food Nation (Paperback)
by Eric Schlosser (shelved 894 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 56,229 ratings — published 2001
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (shelved 878 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 31,750 ratings — published 2003
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 875 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 150,294 ratings — published 2006
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The Omnivore's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 870 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,755 ratings — published 2006
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The Tipping Point (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 867 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 61,675 ratings — published 2000
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Blink (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 866 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,767 ratings — published 2005
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich (shelved 816 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.58 — 45,715 ratings — published 2001
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Night
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 752 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,894 ratings — published 1958
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 743 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 53,560 ratings — published 1997
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Guns, Germs, and Steel (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 715 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,617 ratings — published 1997
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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 702 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,452 ratings — published 2000
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (shelved 679 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,949 ratings — published 2003
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In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by Truman Capote (shelved 678 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 71,754 ratings — published 1965
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Under the Banner of Heaven (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 645 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,144 ratings — published 2003
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Jeannette Walls (shelved 631 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 76,964 ratings — published 2005
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 592 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 23,731 ratings — published 1997
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Paperback)
by Lynne Truss (shelved 583 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,362 ratings — published 2003
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 566 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,868 ratings — published 2003
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by Mitch Albom (shelved 540 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 51,192 ratings — published 1997
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Outliers (Hardcover)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 536 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,741 ratings — published 2008
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 535 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 29,037 ratings — published 2007
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) (shelved 514 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.40 — 27,334 ratings — published 2003
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Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by John Grogan (shelved 501 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 35,880 ratings — published 2005
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The Last Lecture (Hardcover)
by Randy Pausch (shelved 499 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 32,828 ratings — published 2008
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 490 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 21,277 ratings — published 2007
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On Writing (Mass Market Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 470 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,780 ratings — published 2000
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Angela's Ashes (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 463 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,484 ratings — published 1996
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 455 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.47 — 50,630 ratings — published 2002
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The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 448 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,490 ratings — published 2006
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by Barack Obama (shelved 420 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,193 ratings — published 2006
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition)
by Anthony Bourdain (shelved 419 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,544 ratings — published 2000
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 407 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 9,814 ratings — published 1998
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 398 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 36,592 ratings — published 2004
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn (shelved 377 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,683 ratings — published 1980
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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by Stephen W. Hawking (shelved 375 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,240 ratings — published 1988
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Naked (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 365 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 59,031 ratings — published 1997
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by John Berendt (shelved 361 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 19,798 ratings — published 1994
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Dreams from My Father (Paperback)
by Barack Obama (shelved 353 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 19,911 ratings — published 1995
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by Thomas L. Friedman (shelved 351 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.57 — 14,533 ratings — published 2005
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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive (Paperback)
by Dave Pelzer (shelved 344 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,979 ratings — published 1992
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1776 (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 323 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 14,181 ratings — published 2005
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible (Hardcover)
by A.J. Jacobs (shelved 323 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 10,827 ratings — published 2007
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver W. Sacks (shelved 318 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,383 ratings — published 1985
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Mere Christianity (Paperback)
by C.S. Lewis (shelved 307 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,228 ratings — published 1943
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by David Sedaris (shelved 304 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 33,291 ratings — published 2008
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The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by Alan Weisman (shelved 298 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,670 ratings — published 2007
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"...A person who is headstrong enough to open their eyes and their heart to the full depth and weight of the world is inviting in everything out there - both evil and good, both dark and light, and the sheer bravery of that openness enables them to gain profound insight into the human condition. It also fucks them up. It may even make them more prone to stick their head in an oven than to engage in self-promotional chitchat on Jay Leno."
— Patricia Pearson
— Patricia Pearson
"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)
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