Best of 21st Century Non-fiction

1.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating — 1,201,569 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow 4.19 avg rating — 278,846 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,811 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating — 564,484 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 4.08 avg rating — 465,696 ratings
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think 4.36 avg rating — 197,275 ratings
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st Century 4.16 avg rating — 172,927 ratings
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business 4.13 avg rating — 549,075 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating — 845,711 ratings
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life 3.87 avg rating — 1,335,190 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 786,994 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,137 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating — 54,010 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,711 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,331 ratings
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The God Delusion
The God Delusion 3.90 avg rating — 279,313 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst 4.39 avg rating — 29,582 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,011 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable 3.96 avg rating — 119,239 ratings
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike 4.46 avg rating — 350,749 ratings
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything 3.96 avg rating — 111,005 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 4.49 avg rating — 210,875 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 4.01 avg rating — 885,796 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 4.08 avg rating — 199,955 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,472 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,274 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 4.12 avg rating — 129,356 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,356 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams 4.37 avg rating — 215,745 ratings
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World 4.21 avg rating — 41,569 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,725 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 4.34 avg rating — 310,101 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World 4.06 avg rating — 58,652 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,286 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 4.19 avg rating — 208,894 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers 4.17 avg rating — 96,939 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,259 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating — 488,769 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,915 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,435 ratings
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Moneyball
Moneyball 4.27 avg rating — 141,342 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,739 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,557 ratings
44.
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,523 ratings
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26,826 ratings
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder 4.10 avg rating — 55,991 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,198 ratings
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Chokdoktrinen: katastrofe kapitalismens opkomst
Chokdoktrinen: katastrofe kapitalismens opkomst 4.29 avg rating — 51,929 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 425,912 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 4.22 avg rating — 170,778 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 3.96 avg rating — 614,666 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined 4.16 avg rating — 29,267 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,754 ratings
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The Prophet
The Prophet 4.23 avg rating — 321,095 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,309 ratings
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions 4.13 avg rating — 34,094 ratings
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Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,719 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World 4.06 avg rating — 80,995 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,279 ratings
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 4.41 avg rating — 276,354 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress 4.20 avg rating — 31,748 ratings
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Who Rules the World?
Who Rules the World? 4.05 avg rating — 11,938 ratings
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom 4.09 avg rating — 43,674 ratings
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds 3.99 avg rating — 62,912 ratings
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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History 3.75 avg rating — 75,168 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton 4.22 avg rating — 194,761 ratings
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Grant
Grant 4.50 avg rating — 41,997 ratings
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Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,616 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating — 156,122 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,869 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 22,175 ratings
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall 4.20 avg rating — 21,286 ratings
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Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,772,652 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by: Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,333 ratings
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened 4.17 avg rating — 213,853 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating — 93,068 ratings
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Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit 4.13 avg rating — 1,939 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,411 ratings
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them 4.02 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
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Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia 3.97 avg rating — 967 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith 4.01 avg rating — 220,430 ratings
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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success 4.07 avg rating — 38,960 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 4.54 avg rating — 126,873 ratings
84.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls 3.85 avg rating — 149,424 ratings
85.
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Body: A Guide for Occupants 4.31 avg rating — 95,264 ratings
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It 4.35 avg rating — 197,928 ratings
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Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life 4.16 avg rating — 79,866 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science 4.20 avg rating — 39,542 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth 4.04 avg rating — 8,384 ratings
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Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World 4.28 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick 3.81 avg rating — 688 ratings
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The Universal Mind: An exploration into life's biggest questions of existence, creation, evolution, consciousness, the mind, the universe, humanity, human psychology and the illusion of reality.
The Universal Mind: An exploration into life's biggest questions of existence, creation, evolution, consciousness, the mind, the universe, humanity, human psychology and the illusion of reality. 4.15 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by: Nick Lane
4.18 avg rating — 5,766 ratings
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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge 3.92 avg rating — 3,419 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,690 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,006 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York 4.01 avg rating — 36,511 ratings
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 4.51 avg rating — 86,811 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,679 ratings
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2) 4.36 avg rating — 15,510 ratings
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