Most inspiring Nonfiction

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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story 3.49 avg rating β€” 90,823 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics 4.27 avg rating β€” 82,450 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating β€” 196,304 ratings
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Digging for God
Digging for God 4.31 avg rating β€” 5,906 ratings
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A Stolen Life
A Stolen Life 3.96 avg rating β€” 141,521 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? 3.97 avg rating β€” 16,190 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating β€” 91,867 ratings
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration 4.21 avg rating β€” 100,180 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating β€” 45,868 ratings
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 4.13 avg rating β€” 434,919 ratings
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More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
More Than Love, A Husband's Tale 4.30 avg rating β€” 5,283 ratings
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Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life
Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life 3.93 avg rating β€” 527 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating β€” 86,449 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating β€” 832,647 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating β€” 121,463 ratings
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die 3.98 avg rating β€” 97,584 ratings
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All the President’s Men
All the President’s Men 4.18 avg rating β€” 56,979 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Seabiscuit: An American Legend 4.23 avg rating β€” 167,150 ratings
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He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys 3.66 avg rating β€” 66,701 ratings
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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 β€” 38,705 ratings
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Rich Dad, Poor Dad 4.10 avg rating β€” 694,925 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit 3.90 avg rating β€” 82,175 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating β€” 77,302 ratings
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 3.69 avg rating β€” 182,719 ratings
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The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating β€” 245,705 ratings
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The End of Your Life Book Club
The End of Your Life Book Club 3.81 avg rating β€” 55,529 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating β€” 229,616 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 4.12 avg rating β€” 129,374 ratings
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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 β€” 488,894 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating β€” 132,012 ratings
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Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life
Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life 4.33 avg rating β€” 5,949 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating β€” 118,962 ratings
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The Art of Happiness
The Art of Happiness 4.17 avg rating β€” 123,043 ratings
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town 3.86 avg rating β€” 82,857 ratings
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The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating β€” 550,681 ratings
135.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto 3.74 avg rating β€” 72,262 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl 4.06 avg rating β€” 60,130 ratings
138.
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Hero With a Thousand Faces 4.13 avg rating β€” 44,169 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness 3.94 avg rating β€” 57,061 ratings
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Searching for Ganesha: Collecting Images of the Sweet-Loving, Elephant-Headed Hindu Deity Everybody Admires
Searching for Ganesha: Collecting Images of the Sweet-Loving, Elephant-Headed Hindu Deity Everybody Admires 4.36 avg rating β€” 624 ratings
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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage 3.45 avg rating β€” 55,709 ratings
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Cosmos
Cosmos 4.40 avg rating β€” 155,633 ratings
143.
The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God 3.93 avg rating β€” 61,224 ratings
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The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever 4.01 avg rating β€” 27,704 ratings
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Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1)
Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1) 3.74 avg rating β€” 7,709 ratings
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose 4.16 avg rating β€” 214,781 ratings
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Everyday Sexism
Everyday Sexism 4.26 avg rating β€” 12,322 ratings
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Black Like Me
Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating β€” 69,184 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating β€” 30,224 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day 4.01 avg rating β€” 714,130 ratings
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories 3.85 avg rating β€” 51,307 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating β€” 27,264 ratings
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Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating β€” 1,773,394 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,334,371 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating β€” 115,174 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Travels with Charley: In Search of America 4.08 avg rating β€” 103,317 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 4.10 avg rating β€” 101,040 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution 4.16 avg rating β€” 55,479 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,165,800 ratings
160.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4.06 avg rating β€” 76,904 ratings
161.
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1) 4.14 avg rating β€” 455,079 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Failβ€”But Some Don't
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Failβ€”But Some Don't 3.97 avg rating β€” 51,885 ratings
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
The Secret History of Wonder Woman 3.73 avg rating β€” 16,562 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way 3.91 avg rating β€” 43,560 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
This Is Your Brain on Music 3.89 avg rating β€” 66,737 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating β€” 192,431 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors 4.14 avg rating β€” 80,881 ratings
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything 3.96 avg rating β€” 111,016 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History 4.05 avg rating β€” 70,032 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things 4.15 avg rating β€” 46,467 ratings
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It 4.35 avg rating β€” 198,032 ratings
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How to Be a Woman
How to Be a Woman 3.71 avg rating β€” 109,847 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating β€” 26,301 ratings
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe 3.85 avg rating β€” 78,066 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 4.05 avg rating β€” 112,361 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Six Wives of Henry VIII 4.12 avg rating β€” 72,140 ratings
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Living in Harmony with the Real World Vol 3: Coping with Loss and Grief
Living in Harmony with the Real World Vol 3: Coping with Loss and Grief 4.33 avg rating β€” 851 ratings
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Not My Father's Son
Not My Father's Son 4.05 avg rating β€” 46,608 ratings
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman 4.17 avg rating β€” 62,841 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating β€” 26,734 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 4.18 avg rating β€” 63,004 ratings
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra 3.88 avg rating β€” 24,078 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 4.49 avg rating β€” 210,934 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty 4.09 avg rating β€” 59,226 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating β€” 54,025 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating β€” 73,876 ratings
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds 3.99 avg rating β€” 62,920 ratings
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom 4.19 avg rating β€” 489,766 ratings
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
How to Win Friends & Influence People 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,110,976 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 4.22 avg rating β€” 170,822 ratings
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You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life 3.95 avg rating β€” 281,019 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating β€” 189,070 ratings
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Living the Best Day Ever
Living the Best Day Ever 4.40 avg rating β€” 1,233 ratings
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference 4.08 avg rating β€” 11,311 ratings
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
The Witches: Salem, 1692 3.25 avg rating β€” 23,706 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 3.95 avg rating β€” 72,845 ratings
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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 β€” 99,178 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927 4.10 avg rating β€” 53,984 ratings
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future 4.15 avg rating β€” 381,792 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating β€” 111,156 ratings
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