Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s
2. 
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering 4.12 avg rating — 3,678 ratings
3. 
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by:
Erik Larson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,739 ratings 
5. 
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
by:
Claire A. Nivola
4.23 avg rating — 789 ratings 6. 
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
by:
Jeanette Winter
4.33 avg rating — 1,315 ratings 
10. 
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by:
Vicki Myron
3.87 avg rating — 62,006 ratings 
11. 
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
by:
Nita Sweeney
3.72 avg rating — 1,921 ratings 
16. 
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
by:
Sheldon S. Wolin
4.17 avg rating — 962 ratings 
18. 
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
by:
Miranda Carter
4.03 avg rating — 4,253 ratings 
20. 
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by:
Dan Koeppel
3.81 avg rating — 5,278 ratings 21. 
Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
by:
Tammie Matson
3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings 22. 
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
by:
Gay Salisbury
4.19 avg rating — 3,530 ratings 23. 
24. 
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,869 ratings
28. 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,419 ratings 30. 
Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain
by:
Pete Egoscue
4.17 avg rating — 2,003 ratings 31. 
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide 3.99 avg rating — 4,157 ratings
35. 
Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization
by:
Ian Wilson
3.74 avg rating — 125 ratings 36. 
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
by:
Cordelia Fine
4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings 
40. 
Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome
by:
James L. Wilson
3.93 avg rating — 1,939 ratings 
43. 
Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature
by:
Susan E. Davis
4.29 avg rating — 220 ratings 
44. 
What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
by:
Barbara Kerley
4.08 avg rating — 2,465 ratings 46. 
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
by:
Steve Corbett
4.20 avg rating — 13,903 ratings 47. 
48. 
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
by:
Maryanne Wolf
3.85 avg rating — 8,018 ratings 49. 
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
50. 
Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s
by:
James Lileks
4.14 avg rating — 647 ratings 51. 
The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection
by:
Nancy Yaw Davis
3.35 avg rating — 40 ratings 52. 
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by:
Timothy Egan
4.14 avg rating — 17,865 ratings 53. 
Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Boston Review Books)
by:
Glenn C. Loury
4.01 avg rating — 136 ratings 
56. 
Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins
by:
Thomas E. Levy
4.41 avg rating — 147 ratings 
58. 
Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back & How You Can Too 3.70 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
60. 
The Americans at D-Day: The American Experience at the Normandy Invasion
by:
John C. McManus
4.24 avg rating — 348 ratings 61. 
Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
by:
Patrick Creed
4.11 avg rating — 142 ratings 62. 
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
by:
Elyn R. Saks
4.32 avg rating — 22,257 ratings 63. 
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World 4.11 avg rating — 915 ratings
64. 
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
by:
Kang Chol-Hwan
4.11 avg rating — 11,219 ratings 
64. 
64. 
The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
64. 
Do You QuantumThink?: New Thinking That Will Rock Your World
by:
Dianne Collins
4.13 avg rating — 123 ratings 
71. 
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by:
Veronica Buckley
3.45 avg rating — 502 ratings 71. 
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
by:
Paul Stamets
4.41 avg rating — 3,298 ratings 71. 
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
by:
Nita Sweeney
3.72 avg rating — 1,921 ratings 
71. 
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by:
Hernando de Soto
3.99 avg rating — 4,345 ratings 71. 
The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
by:
Kathleen Dayus
3.95 avg rating — 94 ratings 78. 
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
by:
Gioconda Belli
4.22 avg rating — 3,299 ratings 78. 
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
by:
Afschineh Latifi
4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings 
81. 
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by:
Steve Coll
4.31 avg rating — 18,331 ratings 81. 
American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
by:
Sally Denton
4.05 avg rating — 675 ratings 85. 
A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission
by:
Joseph C. Banks
4.32 avg rating — 866 ratings 85. 
A Pocket with a Hole: A Birmingham Childhood of the 1940s and 1950s
by:
Brenda Bullock
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
87. 
The Mammoth Book of Oddballs and Eccentrics (Mammoth Books)
by:
Karl Shaw
3.86 avg rating — 105 ratings 90. 
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity 4.24 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
90. 
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford 3.79 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
90. 
Bodhisattva Mind: Teachings to Cultivate Courage and Awareness in the Midst of Suffering
by:
Pema Chödrön
4.55 avg rating — 553 ratings 90. 
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.29 avg rating — 22,175 ratings 94. 
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
by:
Ron Suskind
3.81 avg rating — 1,940 ratings 94. 
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour 4.35 avg rating — 11,391 ratings
96. 
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
by:
Liao Yiwu
4.22 avg rating — 3,055 ratings 96. 
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
by:
Pascal Khoo Thwe
4.14 avg rating — 1,777 ratings 96. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 96. 
I Remember...A Memoir of Nazi Invasion Forced Exile and Concentration Camp 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
