Interesting and Readable Nonfiction (3964 books)

Both informative and entertaining, these books not only teach but help us to question our beliefs about the world.

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3898	American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman 4.15 avg rating — 2,479 ratings score: 12, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3898	What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation by Matt Walsh 4.47 avg rating — 1,912 ratings score: 12, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3898	American Eastern Catholics by Fred J. Saato 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 12, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3898	The Art of Teaching by Gilbert Highet 3.98 avg rating — 246 ratings score: 12, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3905	Russian Lacquer, Legends and Fairy Tales, Volume II by Lucy Maxym 4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 11, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3905	Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization by W. Hodding Carter IV 3.60 avg rating — 404 ratings score: 11, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3905	Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham 4.33 avg rating — 419 ratings score: 11, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3905	If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 346,077 ratings score: 11, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3905	Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben 3.95 avg rating — 4,183 ratings score: 11, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3905	Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 41,374 ratings score: 11, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3911	Russian Lacquer, Legends and Fairy Tales by Lucy Maxym 4.25 avg rating — 60 ratings score: 10, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3911	The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book by Peter Forbes 3.85 avg rating — 221 ratings score: 10, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3911	Kluge by Gary F. Marcus 3.83 avg rating — 2,081 ratings score: 10, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3911	The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson 3.77 avg rating — 15,248 ratings score: 10, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3911	The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 3.94 avg rating — 19,681 ratings score: 10, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3911	Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart 4.08 avg rating — 1,932 ratings score: 10, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3917	Palech, een Russisch sprookje : van icoon tot lakminiatuur by Ernst J. Veen (editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3917	The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices by Claude Lecouteux 4.20 avg rating — 246 ratings score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3917	Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry by Lenore Skenazy 3.89 avg rating — 7,477 ratings score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3917	How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them by Daniel Wolff (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 302 ratings score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3917	Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson 3.87 avg rating — 208 ratings score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3917	Our Amazing Birds: The Little-Known Facts About Their Private Lives by Robert S. Lemmon 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3917	Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution by Lynn Margulis 4.22 avg rating — 895 ratings score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3924	De glorie van Nederland by J.J.M. Timmers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3924	Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen 4.31 avg rating — 737 ratings score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3924	The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 11,883 ratings score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3924	Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber 4.20 avg rating — 14,117 ratings score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3924	The True History of the Elephant Man by Michael Howell 3.84 avg rating — 1,035 ratings score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3924	The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution by Elaine Morgan 4.14 avg rating — 959 ratings score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3930	Vincent van Gogh : zijn leven ~ zijn werk by Hans Bronkhorst 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 7, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3930	Survivors; the Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind by Richard Fortey 3.87 avg rating — 1,170 ratings score: 7, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3930	How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers by William Poundstone 3.58 avg rating — 1,862 ratings score: 7, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3930	Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban 3.97 avg rating — 813 ratings score: 7, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3934	De Acropolis in Athene by Nevio Degrassi 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 6, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3934	Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future by James Delingpole 3.98 avg rating — 252 ratings score: 6, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3934	The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 2,371 ratings score: 6, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3934	Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future by Steve Hallett 3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings score: 6, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3934	One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway -- and Its Aftermath by Åsne Seierstad 4.43 avg rating — 12,923 ratings score: 6, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3934	Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon 4.03 avg rating — 25,218 ratings score: 6, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3940	Venetië, Canal Grande by Giuseppe Mazzariol liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 5, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3940	True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 6,932 ratings score: 5, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3940	The Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Abraham Lincoln 4.14 avg rating — 336 ratings score: 5, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3940	Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray 3.94 avg rating — 710 ratings score: 5, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3940	The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler 3.84 avg rating — 3,163 ratings score: 5, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3945	De tempels van Agrigento, Sicilië by Ernesto De Miro 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 4, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3945	The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction by Robert T. Bakker 4.23 avg rating — 2,235 ratings score: 4, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3945	Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America by John P. Avlon 3.74 avg rating — 413 ratings score: 4, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3945	If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission by Jo Piazza (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 912 ratings score: 4, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3945	Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation by Ellen Fitzpatrick 3.96 avg rating — 910 ratings score: 4, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3945	The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby 3.85 avg rating — 3,267 ratings score: 4, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3945	How to Survive Anywhere by Christopher Nyerges 3.55 avg rating — 76 ratings score: 4, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3952	De macht van een maîtresse: Hoe passie en politiek de laatste prins fataal werden by René F.W. Diekstra 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 3, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3952	Celestial Geometry: Understanding the Astronomical Meanings of Ancient Sites by Ken Taylor 4.20 avg rating — 70 ratings score: 3, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3952	You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation by Susannah Gora 3.86 avg rating — 2,652 ratings score: 3, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3952	Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari 4.50 avg rating — 21,434 ratings score: 3, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3956	Australië, ontdekking van een continent by Neil Hermes 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 2, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3956	The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry L. Hunt 3.85 avg rating — 661 ratings score: 2, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3956	The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 by Joel Kotkin 3.22 avg rating — 206 ratings score: 2, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3956	Pieces of My Mother: A Memoir by Melissa Cistaro (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 1,382 ratings score: 2, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3956	The Cooked Seed: A Memoir by Anchee Min 3.78 avg rating — 2,357 ratings score: 2, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3956	Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal 4.26 avg rating — 815 ratings score: 2, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3962	The Tarim Mummies by J.P. Mallory 4.07 avg rating — 104 ratings score: 1, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3962	Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View by Stephen G. Breyer 3.73 avg rating — 648 ratings score: 1, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3962	When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History by Daniel Schlozman 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 1, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars