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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
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The Art of War
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Braving the Wilderness
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Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)
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Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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Orientalism
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Bad Science
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
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Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
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The Argonauts
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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Allie Brosh (Goodreads Author)
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Ashlee Vance (Goodreads Author)
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Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author)
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Dad Is Fat
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Think and Grow Rich
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Eating Animals
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
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Steve Pemberton (Goodreads Author)
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Silent Spring
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
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Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms
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John Ramirez (Goodreads Author)
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Lab Girl
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Hope Jahren (Goodreads Author)
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Homage to Catalonia
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (Goodreads Author)
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The Last Lecture
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
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Bill O'Reilly (Goodreads Author)
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author)
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
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W. Chan Kim (Goodreads Author)
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Last Chance to See
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Men Explain Things to Me
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
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Letters to a Young Poet
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The Things They Carried
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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Scott McCloud (Goodreads Author)
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The Secret (The Secret, #1)
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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Denise Kiernan (Goodreads Author)
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Zeitoun
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life
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The Art of Happiness
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84, Charing Cross Road
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Wishful Drinking
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
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The Color of Water
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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Mere Christianity
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Lucky
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The 4-Hour Workweek
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
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Girl Wash your Face
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The Princess Diarist
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Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
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The Beauty Myth
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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Infidel
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
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Jan 23, 2010 05:52PM
This is a great list. I love non-fiction so will be able to use it as a guide. I don't know how to add a book but would like to reccomend Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin.
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Great list! Some non-fiction is just so utterly boring . . thank you for creating such a wonderful list.
You add books at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."However, if you are the author I believe that is no longer possible; too many authors were abusing the privilege.
I read a ton of non fiction, I have added my limit of 100 books.
@StaceySaid it before and I'll say it again: As you share the same first name with the author, I can't escape the notion that you might be one and the same person?
# 757 The Woman in White and # 797 A Darkness Absolute are both fiction, as are #1014 Still Life, #1027 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and #1089 Murder on the Orient Express.#1181 The Great Gatsby (THE great American NOVEL!!!)
21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)
Agnieszka wrote: "21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)"
Murder on the Orient Express is fiction.
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