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The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 1798 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,103,548 ratings — published 1947
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1672 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 235,076 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 1590 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 389,893 ratings — published 2001
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1440 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 217,118 ratings — published 2002
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 1222 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 135,185 ratings — published 2006
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 1194 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 345,226 ratings — published 2000
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 1184 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 414,112 ratings — published 1955
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 1174 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 217,872 ratings — published 2005
Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 1162 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 437,220 ratings — published 1996
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich (shelved 1158 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.55 — 178,061 ratings — published 2001
Bossypants (Audio CD)
by Tina Fey (shelved 1113 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 262,306 ratings — published 2011
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 1063 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 220,374 ratings — published 2008
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 1054 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.40 — 841,057 ratings — published 2006
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1040 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 95,438 ratings — published 2003
In Cold Blood (Trade Paperback)
by Truman Capote (shelved 1034 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 339,716 ratings — published 1965
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by Eric Schlosser (shelved 995 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 220,874 ratings — published 2001
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 981 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 155,268 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 932 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.66 — 253,539 ratings — published 2006
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by Susan Cain (Goodreads Author) (shelved 904 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 130,449 ratings — published 2012
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 896 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 241,984 ratings — published 1997
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 878 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 490,432 ratings — published 2000
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 821 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 143,832 ratings — published 1997
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover)
by Laura Hillenbrand (shelved 800 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 214,027 ratings — published 2010
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 800 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 136,480 ratings — published 2003
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Paperback)
by Lynne Truss (shelved 792 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 67,837 ratings — published 2003
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 786 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,912 ratings — published 2003
On Writing (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 757 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 92,043 ratings — published 2000
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 723 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 86,905 ratings — published 2008
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Hardcover)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 702 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 96,390 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 614 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 100,912 ratings — published 2011
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 592 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 63,955 ratings — published 1998
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author) (shelved 591 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.50 — 107,754 ratings — published 2003
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 586 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 37,101 ratings — published 2008
Angela's Ashes (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 581 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 245,051 ratings — published 1996
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by John Berendt (shelved 575 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 116,851 ratings — published 1994
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Paperback)
by Howard Zinn (shelved 570 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 96,571 ratings — published 1980
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by Anthony Bourdain (shelved 552 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 107,007 ratings — published 2000
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by Mindy Kaling (shelved 549 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 128,740 ratings — published 2011
The Last Lecture (Hardcover)
by Randy Pausch (shelved 537 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 175,235 ratings — published 2008
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 511 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,014 ratings — published 1985
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 506 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 231,246 ratings — published 2002
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 488 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 123,178 ratings — published 2006
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 487 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 142,357 ratings — published 2004
Columbine (Hardcover)
by Dave Cullen (Goodreads Author) (shelved 485 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 43,103 ratings — published 2009
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Paperback)
by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author) (shelved 475 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 44,066 ratings — published 1994
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 467 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 30,735 ratings — published 2010
A Child Called "It" (Paperback)
by Dave Pelzer (shelved 467 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 204,456 ratings — published 1992
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 463 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,348 ratings — published 1988
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author) (shelved 460 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 127,340 ratings — published 2012
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 460 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,869 ratings — published 2010
“Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
― George Macaulay Trevelyan
― George Macaulay Trevelyan
“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
