Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

301.
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 4.31 avg rating — 18,331 ratings
302.
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
303.
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 4.34 avg rating — 99,165 ratings
304.
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education 4.22 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
305.
The Grand Design
The Grand Design 4.06 avg rating — 76,521 ratings
306.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 4.41 avg rating — 276,372 ratings
307.
Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,629 ratings
308.
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 — 488,810 ratings
309.
Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do
Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do 4.08 avg rating — 87 ratings
310.
Common Sense
Common Sense really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,566 ratings
311.
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom 4.24 avg rating — 21,394 ratings
312.
How Proust Can Change Your Life
How Proust Can Change Your Life 3.76 avg rating — 18,288 ratings
313.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,594 ratings
314.
Understanding China: Learning from China's Past, Present, and Future
Understanding China: Learning from China's Past, Present, and Future 3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings
315.
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
316.
Star Struck: Interviews with Dirty Harry and other Hollywood Icons
Star Struck: Interviews with Dirty Harry and other Hollywood Icons 4.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
317.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind 4.26 avg rating — 5,834 ratings
318.
From Beirut to Jerusalem
From Beirut to Jerusalem 4.15 avg rating — 12,907 ratings
319.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts 4.01 avg rating — 5,567 ratings
320.
Your Money or Your Life
Your Money or Your Life 3.99 avg rating — 29,874 ratings
321.
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 3.80 avg rating — 51,853 ratings
322.
Coming Into the Country
Coming Into the Country 4.21 avg rating — 7,472 ratings
323.
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Women Who Run With the Wolves 4.11 avg rating — 90,543 ratings
324.
Stumbling on Happiness
Stumbling on Happiness 3.82 avg rating — 63,111 ratings
325.
The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind 3.76 avg rating — 5,868 ratings
326.
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution 4.14 avg rating — 28,420 ratings
327.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,195 ratings
328.
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 — 213,866 ratings
329.
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself 4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
330.
The Library Book
The Library Book 3.89 avg rating — 121,031 ratings
331.
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It 3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings
332.
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic 4.23 avg rating — 25,516 ratings
332.
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics 3.89 avg rating — 5,178 ratings
334.
Spiritual Midwifery
Spiritual Midwifery 4.38 avg rating — 6,610 ratings
334.
Pregnancy and Men
Pregnancy and Men 3.89 avg rating — 53 ratings
334.
The Ecological Rift
The Ecological Rift 4.06 avg rating — 328 ratings
337.
How We Decide
How We Decide 3.84 avg rating — 41,298 ratings
337.
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic 4.49 avg rating — 105 ratings
339.
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates 3.68 avg rating — 10,102 ratings
339.
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 4.54 avg rating — 126,902 ratings
341.
Closing Deals: Make an Offer
Closing Deals: Make an Offer 4.21 avg rating — 53 ratings
342.
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Holy Blood, Holy Grail 3.51 avg rating — 12,576 ratings
342.
Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics
Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics 4.39 avg rating — 121 ratings
344.
Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage
Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
345.
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 365,581 ratings
346.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,485 ratings
347.
The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch 3.68 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
348.
The Diversity of Life
The Diversity of Life 4.21 avg rating — 6,189 ratings
348.
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World 3.84 avg rating — 38,202 ratings
350.
The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World 4.19 avg rating — 8,228 ratings
351.
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival 4.23 avg rating — 63,067 ratings
352.
How Doctors Think
How Doctors Think 3.93 avg rating — 13,202 ratings
353.
Fermat's Enigma
Fermat's Enigma 4.30 avg rating — 32,757 ratings
354.
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece 3.87 avg rating — 35,393 ratings
355.
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth 4.08 avg rating — 101,264 ratings
356.
Chaos: Making a New Science
Chaos: Making a New Science 4.03 avg rating — 40,240 ratings
357.
How to Lie with Statistics
How to Lie with Statistics 3.84 avg rating — 17,591 ratings
357.
Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet 4.28 avg rating — 113,843 ratings
357.
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital 3.93 avg rating — 39,330 ratings
360.
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Hero With a Thousand Faces 4.13 avg rating — 44,163 ratings
361.
A Little History of the World
A Little History of the World 4.10 avg rating — 30,750 ratings
362.
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 4.20 avg rating — 22,702 ratings
363.
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago 4.37 avg rating — 11,713 ratings
364.
Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health 4.55 avg rating — 12,877 ratings
365.
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,609 ratings
366.
The Abolition of Man
The Abolition of Man 4.12 avg rating — 38,835 ratings
367.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 4.04 avg rating — 44,513 ratings
368.
The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women
The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women 4.37 avg rating — 7,461 ratings
369.
Date Runner: Calculate Your Best Match
Date Runner: Calculate Your Best Match 4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings
370.
Miracle in the Andes
Miracle in the Andes 4.36 avg rating — 25,681 ratings
371.
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed 3.48 avg rating — 35,583 ratings
372.
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin 4.33 avg rating — 13,982 ratings
373.
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
by: Jay Winik
4.16 avg rating — 12,397 ratings
374.
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls 3.89 avg rating — 26,412 ratings
375.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century 4.01 avg rating — 25,924 ratings
376.
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There 3.62 avg rating — 4,484 ratings
377.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space 4.34 avg rating — 38,702 ratings
378.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,993 ratings
379.
A Crack in the Edge of the World
A Crack in the Edge of the World 3.79 avg rating — 7,186 ratings
380.
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time 3.86 avg rating — 9,953 ratings
381.
Full Catastrophe Living
Full Catastrophe Living 4.16 avg rating — 15,715 ratings
381.
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate 4.14 avg rating — 8,952 ratings
383.
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West 4.17 avg rating — 11,230 ratings
384.
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 4.22 avg rating — 22,134 ratings
385.
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini 3.40 avg rating — 9,337 ratings
386.
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual 3.99 avg rating — 48,348 ratings
387.
Manifesto of the Free People's Union
Manifesto of the Free People's Union 4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
388.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,492 ratings
389.
Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai
Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai 3.94 avg rating — 98 ratings
390.
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture 4.12 avg rating — 540 ratings
391.
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End... 4.04 avg rating — 5,232 ratings
391.
A Guide to the Present Moment
A Guide to the Present Moment 3.80 avg rating — 547 ratings
391.
Alexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes
Alexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
394.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,961 ratings
395.
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating — 93,074 ratings
396.
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth 3.86 avg rating — 72,050 ratings
397.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,749 ratings
397.
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court 4.09 avg rating — 18,283 ratings
399.
The Encyclopedia of Country Living
The Encyclopedia of Country Living 4.43 avg rating — 3,130 ratings
400.
The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits
The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits 4.44 avg rating — 36 ratings
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