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The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 5788 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,099,350 ratings — published 1947
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 4834 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 388,664 ratings — published 2001
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 3483 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 343,976 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 3426 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 216,156 ratings — published 2002
Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 3256 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 432,795 ratings — published 1996
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 3055 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 219,326 ratings — published 2008
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 2962 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 412,381 ratings — published 1955
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 2956 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.40 — 838,696 ratings — published 2006
Bossypants (Audio CD)
by Tina Fey (shelved 2822 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 260,407 ratings — published 2011
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 2789 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,755 ratings — published 2006
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 2730 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 135,779 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 2725 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 154,547 ratings — published 1997
In Cold Blood (Trade Paperback)
by Truman Capote (shelved 2660 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 338,815 ratings — published 1965
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by Eric Schlosser (shelved 2573 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 220,603 ratings — published 2001
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 2548 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 240,251 ratings — published 1997
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2547 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.66 — 252,820 ratings — published 2006
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2534 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 95,055 ratings — published 2003
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich (shelved 2315 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.55 — 177,822 ratings — published 2001
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by Susan Cain (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2226 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 129,412 ratings — published 2012
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 2200 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 143,270 ratings — published 1997
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2174 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 122,531 ratings — published 2006
On Writing (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 2124 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 91,682 ratings — published 2000
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 2089 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 489,377 ratings — published 2000
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 1915 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,058 ratings — published 2003
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Paperback)
by Lynne Truss (shelved 1885 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 67,598 ratings — published 2003
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 1688 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 86,597 ratings — published 2008
The Last Lecture (Hardcover)
by Randy Pausch (shelved 1676 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 174,495 ratings — published 2008
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1663 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 234,084 ratings — published 2010
Angela's Ashes (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 1640 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 243,921 ratings — published 1996
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 1629 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,730 ratings — published 1988
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Hardcover)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 1535 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 96,184 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 1528 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 100,449 ratings — published 2011
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by Anthony Bourdain (shelved 1490 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 106,516 ratings — published 2000
A Child Called "It" (Paperback)
by Dave Pelzer (shelved 1416 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 203,545 ratings — published 1992
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1395 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,532 ratings — published 1985
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by John Grogan (shelved 1386 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 198,788 ratings — published 2005
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1371 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.50 — 107,428 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 1369 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 63,687 ratings — published 1998
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 1319 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 230,467 ratings — published 2002
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Paperback)
by Howard Zinn (shelved 1296 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 96,177 ratings — published 1980
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1265 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 36,925 ratings — published 2008
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by John Berendt (shelved 1262 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 116,513 ratings — published 1994
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by Mindy Kaling (shelved 1256 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 127,759 ratings — published 2011
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 1218 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,735 ratings — published 2010
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Hardcover)
by A.J. Jacobs (shelved 1182 times as non-fiction)
avg rating 3.76 — 55,810 ratings — published 2007
“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
“When you're conscious of what you're permitting to germinate inside you, the weeds in your life will wither away of their own accord.”
― Lawrence Shorter
― Lawrence Shorter
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