Best Non-Fiction of 2018
2. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,356 ratings 
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,278 ratings 5. 
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by:
Steven Pinker
4.20 avg rating — 31,748 ratings 6. 
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,761 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by:
Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,184 ratings 14. 
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
by:
Johann Hari
4.26 avg rating — 40,168 ratings 18. 
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.52 avg rating — 83,058 ratings 
20. 
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
by:
Maxwell King
3.99 avg rating — 28,007 ratings 
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
by:
Jason F. Stanley
4.23 avg rating — 12,610 ratings 30. 
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by:
Michael Isikoff
4.20 avg rating — 6,660 ratings 31. 
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
by:
Carol Anderson
4.39 avg rating — 3,306 ratings 32. 
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Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
by:
Dan Pfeiffer
4.16 avg rating — 7,895 ratings 34. 
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
by:
Masaji Ishikawa
4.28 avg rating — 60,938 ratings 38. 
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
by:
Rebecca Traister
4.37 avg rating — 11,931 ratings 39. 
The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
by:
David A. Kaplan
3.94 avg rating — 515 ratings 
41. 
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
by:
Andrew Delbanco
4.33 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 
43. 
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America 4.11 avg rating — 2,025 ratings
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Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling
by:
Amy Chozick
3.73 avg rating — 2,167 ratings 
49. 
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
by:
Annie Lowrey
3.85 avg rating — 2,990 ratings 50. 
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.13 avg rating — 20,005 ratings 
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by:
Adam Tooze
4.28 avg rating — 4,042 ratings 
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer 3.26 avg rating — 7,483 ratings
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America 4.10 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
by:
Lynn Vincent
4.46 avg rating — 7,237 ratings 
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by:
Eric Klinenberg
3.97 avg rating — 5,123 ratings 62. 
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
by:
Lawrence Wright
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,875 ratings 63. 
The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System 4.06 avg rating — 517 ratings
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by:
Kai-Fu Lee
4.09 avg rating — 16,260 ratings 65. 
Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
by:
Tucker Carlson
4.28 avg rating — 6,201 ratings 
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown 4.12 avg rating — 5,301 ratings
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
by:
Anna Clark
4.15 avg rating — 2,842 ratings 69. 
Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
by:
Dan Abrams
3.88 avg rating — 5,420 ratings 70. 
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.99 avg rating — 5,000 ratings 71. 
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 3.67 avg rating — 1,798 ratings
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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
by:
Gregg Jarrett
4.34 avg rating — 1,920 ratings 73. 
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by:
Tim Mohr
4.03 avg rating — 1,151 ratings 74. 
#MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens
by:
Lori Perkins
3.76 avg rating — 250 ratings 74. 
What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
by:
Adam Becker
4.28 avg rating — 3,610 ratings 74. 
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
by:
Francisco Cantú
3.97 avg rating — 15,190 ratings 77. 
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
by:
D.L. Hughley
4.03 avg rating — 3,465 ratings 78. 
Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II
by:
Damien Lewis
4.13 avg rating — 306 ratings 79. 
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
by:
Eric Idle
3.90 avg rating — 8,718 ratings 
81. 
The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year
by:
Amy Siskind
4.20 avg rating — 255 ratings 81. 
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
by:
Ryan North
4.14 avg rating — 6,051 ratings 
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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
by:
Eli Saslow
4.42 avg rating — 10,562 ratings 87. 
It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics
by:
David Faris
3.86 avg rating — 488 ratings 
89. 
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art
by:
Richard Russo
3.61 avg rating — 474 ratings 90. 
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Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
by:
Alisa Roth
4.07 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 
93. 
House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
by:
Craig Unger
4.02 avg rating — 1,770 ratings 
97. 
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy
by:
Jill Soloway
3.43 avg rating — 1,718 ratings 98. 
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
by:
Brad Meltzer
3.82 avg rating — 13,573 ratings 100. 
From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
by:
Michael McFaul
4.04 avg rating — 1,879 ratings