Non-Fiction Recc'd by F
1. 
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by:
Rick Perlstein
4.25 avg rating — 10,668 ratings 2. 
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,188 ratings 3. 
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
by:
Mark Kurlansky
3.92 avg rating — 24,362 ratings 
5. 
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,512 ratings 6. 
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Jack Weatherford
4.06 avg rating — 81,021 ratings 7. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,058 ratings
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Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World 4.32 avg rating — 777 ratings
11. 
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
by:
Noah Feldman
4.18 avg rating — 1,938 ratings 12. 
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by:
David Grann
3.90 avg rating — 106,839 ratings 13. 
A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story
by:
Jeremy Grimaldi
3.44 avg rating — 1,530 ratings 14. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,201 ratings 15. 
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 3.98 avg rating — 254 ratings
16. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 426,100 ratings 17. 
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
by:
Ari Berman
4.39 avg rating — 1,962 ratings 18. 
20. 
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by:
Vincent Bugliosi
4.06 avg rating — 152,021 ratings 21. 
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,017 ratings 
23. 
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings 24. 
25. 
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
by:
Paul Collins
3.58 avg rating — 8,675 ratings 26. 
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
by:
Paul French
3.86 avg rating — 7,293 ratings 27. 
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by:
Monica Hesse
3.79 avg rating — 16,447 ratings 
29. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,734 ratings 30. 
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.26 avg rating — 551,062 ratings 31. 
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
by:
Nick Heil
3.94 avg rating — 6,147 ratings 32. 
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
by:
Peter Zuckerman
4.22 avg rating — 10,957 ratings 33. 
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by:
Masha Gessen
3.82 avg rating — 11,845 ratings 34. 
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
by:
Robert F. Worth
4.24 avg rating — 1,125 ratings 35. 
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.36 avg rating — 36,112 ratings 36. 
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by:
Alexandra Fuller
3.97 avg rating — 56,664 ratings 
38. 
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by:
Leslie T. Chang
3.93 avg rating — 9,485 ratings 39. 
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
by:
Suki Kim
3.93 avg rating — 21,803 ratings 40. 
41. 
A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda
by:
Josh Ruxin
4.13 avg rating — 823 ratings 