Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2016
1. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating — 488,841 ratings 2. 
The Arab of the Future 3: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1985-1987
by:
Riad Sattouf
4.38 avg rating — 8,219 ratings 
4. 
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,830 ratings 5. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,956 ratings 5. 
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings 
9. 
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
by:
Jennifer Weiner
3.79 avg rating — 8,737 ratings 
11. 
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy
by:
Sue Klebold
4.14 avg rating — 44,130 ratings 
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by:
Michael Lewis
3.99 avg rating — 62,917 ratings 22. 
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
by:
Mei Fong
3.96 avg rating — 3,257 ratings 23. 
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
by:
Sarah Glidden
4.02 avg rating — 2,084 ratings 24. 
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
by:
Paula Byrne
4.03 avg rating — 1,761 ratings 24. 
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
by:
Beth Macy
3.49 avg rating — 3,714 ratings 24. 
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by:
Carol Anderson
4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings 24. 
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Moresnet: opkomst en ondergang van een vergeten buurlandje
by:
Philip Dröge
4.09 avg rating — 686 ratings 
24. 
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
by:
Chris Voss
4.35 avg rating — 197,999 ratings 24. 
Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps
by:
Burgess Owens
4.19 avg rating — 226 ratings 32. 
Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
by:
Barbara Leaming
3.69 avg rating — 1,637 ratings 32. 
Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division
by:
Crystal Wright
3.78 avg rating — 76 ratings 32. 
More Encounters with Star People: Urban American Indians Tells Their Stories 4.65 avg rating — 126 ratings
38. 
United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
by:
Cory Booker
4.07 avg rating — 2,506 ratings 38. 
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
38. 
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by:
Shashi Tharoor
4.17 avg rating — 12,327 ratings 38. 
Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis (New Threats to Freedom Series) 3.42 avg rating — 483 ratings
43. 
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
by:
Kevin Hazzard
3.95 avg rating — 13,681 ratings 43. 
The Cardinals Way: How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time
by:
Howard Megdal
3.52 avg rating — 265 ratings 43. 
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital 4.23 avg rating — 6,798 ratings
43. 
Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To
by:
Dana Loesch
3.90 avg rating — 292 ratings 
48. 
The Unseen Anzac: How an Enigmatic Explorer Created Australia's World War I Photographs
by:
Jeff Maynard
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 48. 
The Equine Legacy: How Horses, Mules, and Donkeys Shaped America
by:
C.S. Purdy
4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings 51. 
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
by:
Andrés Reséndez
4.06 avg rating — 2,061 ratings 
51. 
Amber's Donkey: The Heart-Warming Tale of How a Donkey and a Little Girl Healed the Scars of Each Other's Troubled Pasts
by:
Julian Austwick
4.52 avg rating — 189 ratings 
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The Elements of Pizza: Unlocking the Secrets to World-Class Pies at Home
by:
Ken Forkish
4.52 avg rating — 1,117 ratings 59. 
Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France
by:
Craig Carlson
3.82 avg rating — 2,235 ratings 59. 
The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria
by:
Samar Yazbek
3.98 avg rating — 1,143 ratings 
59. 
The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
by:
Daymond John
3.89 avg rating — 3,533 ratings 64. 
The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
by:
Dan Barry
4.14 avg rating — 1,852 ratings 64. 
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings 64. 
The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
by:
Phil Harvey
4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings 
68. 
Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
by:
Clint Hill
4.28 avg rating — 11,464 ratings 
73. 
The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
by:
Andrew Klavan
4.49 avg rating — 3,149 ratings 73. 
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
by:
Jill Jonnes
3.82 avg rating — 302 ratings 
76. 
Lessons from a CF Cornerman: 38 Lessons I Learned During My Wife's Illness And Lung Transplant
by:
Raymond L. Poole
4.68 avg rating — 44 ratings 
80. 
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
by:
Adam Rutherford
4.03 avg rating — 11,640 ratings 82. 
A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder
by:
Gregg Olsen
3.69 avg rating — 3,825 ratings 82. 
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
by:
John McWhorter
4.14 avg rating — 1,919 ratings 84. 
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations 3.88 avg rating — 11,409 ratings
86. 
Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer
by:
Fiona Robinson
4.07 avg rating — 528 ratings 
88. 
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by:
Gretchen Bakke
3.87 avg rating — 4,503 ratings 90. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,403 ratings 91. 
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by:
Brian Christian
4.13 avg rating — 34,097 ratings 92. 
The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town . . . and the World
by:
Jan Louch
3.87 avg rating — 660 ratings 92. 
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating — 37,883 ratings 
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Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth
by:
Barb Rosenstock
4.17 avg rating — 491 ratings 96. 
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
by:
Ben Rawlence
4.02 avg rating — 3,370 ratings 
99. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,732 ratings 