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Best Nonfiction Books
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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,803,925 ratings — published 2018
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 557,086 ratings — published 1997
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.69 — 248,663 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,538 ratings — published 2010
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 278,422 ratings — published 2018
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 780,371 ratings — published 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,223,475 ratings — published 2011
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 433,412 ratings — published 2017
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 469,208 ratings — published 2012
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,390,338 ratings — published 2022
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,105 ratings — published 2015
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.54 — 130,413 ratings — published 2021
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,239 ratings — published 2014
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 787,643 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 213,421 ratings — published 2014
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 847,981 ratings — published 1946
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.51 — 163,841 ratings — published 2013
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,344,203 ratings — published 1956
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,175,450 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,339,020 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 571,086 ratings — published 2021
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 161,331 ratings — published 2019
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 313,063 ratings — published 2000
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 746,769 ratings — published 2003
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,115,291 ratings — published 1947
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,880 ratings — published 2010
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 101,614 ratings — published 2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 155,669 ratings — published 2018
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 393,404 ratings — published 2019
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 260,162 ratings — published 2018
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 856,816 ratings — published 2012
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 215,073 ratings — published 1985
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 222,273 ratings — published 2003
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 853,169 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 890,063 ratings — published 2005
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 166,591 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,034 ratings — published 2020
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,173,290 ratings — published 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,609 ratings — published 2012
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 994,963 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.55 — 117,196 ratings — published 1963
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 264,086 ratings — published 2014
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 141,862 ratings — published 2020
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,462 ratings — published 2006
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 180,081 ratings — published 2016
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 122,151 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,484 ratings — published 2016
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 329,966 ratings — published 180
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,331 ratings — published 2010
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as best-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 86,012 ratings — published 2014
