Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2021
3. 
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by:
Bill Gates
4.12 avg rating — 50,139 ratings 4. 
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating — 39,746 ratings 5. 
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
by:
George Saunders
4.54 avg rating — 23,134 ratings 
8. 
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.56 avg rating — 10,763 ratings 9. 
10. 
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
by:
John Green
4.36 avg rating — 161,122 ratings 11. 
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
by:
Adam M. Grant
4.13 avg rating — 136,057 ratings 12. 
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
by:
Julian Sancton
4.27 avg rating — 16,937 ratings 13. 
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by:
Sarah Jaffe
3.95 avg rating — 5,176 ratings 14. 
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
by:
Amber Ruffin
4.42 avg rating — 21,787 ratings 15. 
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth 4.39 avg rating — 16,796 ratings
16. 
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
by:
Elon Green
3.84 avg rating — 10,125 ratings 17. 
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
by:
Heather McGhee
4.62 avg rating — 20,498 ratings 18. 
Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
by:
Carol Leonnig
4.23 avg rating — 9,817 ratings 
20. 
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
by:
Frederick Joseph
4.46 avg rating — 5,535 ratings 21. 
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.03 avg rating — 61,500 ratings 22. 
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
by:
Olivia Campbell
3.71 avg rating — 5,527 ratings 
24. 
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred 4.11 avg rating — 4,007 ratings
25. 
¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons 4.04 avg rating — 8,775 ratings
28. 
Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
by:
Lisa Napoli
3.85 avg rating — 3,759 ratings 29. 
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
by:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.12 avg rating — 1,244 ratings 30. 
31. 
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by:
David Graeber
4.19 avg rating — 24,328 ratings 32. 
The Cost of My Faith: How a Decision in My Cake Shop Took Me to the Supreme Court
by:
Jack Phillips
4.06 avg rating — 229 ratings 33. 
34. 
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation 4.08 avg rating — 8,670 ratings
36. 
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
by:
Kyle Harper
4.19 avg rating — 646 ratings 
38. 
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
by:
Curtis Bunn
4.20 avg rating — 107 ratings 39. 
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
by:
Dorothy A. Brown
4.25 avg rating — 1,835 ratings 40. 
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by:
Clint Smith
4.70 avg rating — 38,107 ratings 41. 
42. 
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
by:
Robert A. Jensen
3.84 avg rating — 1,469 ratings 43. 
45. 
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
by:
Sathnam Sanghera
4.09 avg rating — 8,331 ratings 46. 
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
by:
Judy Batalion
4.07 avg rating — 9,480 ratings 46. 
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
by:
Oliver Burkeman
4.19 avg rating — 115,019 ratings 48. 
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
by:
Suleika Jaouad
4.42 avg rating — 116,264 ratings 49. 
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
by:
Michael E. Mann
3.94 avg rating — 2,201 ratings 
51. 
The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy
by:
Kekla Magoon
4.33 avg rating — 312 ratings 
53. 
The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History
by:
Rachel Smith
4.15 avg rating — 375 ratings 54. 
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
by:
Margalit Fox
3.69 avg rating — 2,801 ratings 
55. 
Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
by:
Glenn Frankel
4.23 avg rating — 669 ratings 57. 
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
by:
Simon Winchester
3.79 avg rating — 2,983 ratings 58. 
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City 4.09 avg rating — 244 ratings
59. 
The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society 3.72 avg rating — 115 ratings
60. 
Everyday Violence: The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People
by:
Simone Kolysh
3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings 61. 
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
by:
Lizzie Johnson
4.33 avg rating — 2,606 ratings 62. 
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
by:
Bill O'Reilly
4.25 avg rating — 13,868 ratings 63. 
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
by:
Mark Synnott
4.13 avg rating — 4,207 ratings 64. 
The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
by:
Rosalind Miles
3.88 avg rating — 510 ratings 
66. 
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
by:
Janice P. Nimura
3.59 avg rating — 5,902 ratings 
68. 
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
by:
Jonathan Meiburg
4.17 avg rating — 2,742 ratings 
70. 
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
by:
Kevin Roose
3.95 avg rating — 2,194 ratings 70. 
Intention: Building Capabilities to Transform Your Story
by:
Ian D. Brooks
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 72. 
A Heartbeat Away: How the Heartbeat Bill Will Pierce the Heart of Roe v. Wade and the Shocking Betrayal No One Saw Coming
by:
Janet Porter
2.91 avg rating — 11 ratings 73. 
Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
by:
Decoteau J. Irby
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 
74. 
Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice
by:
Anita Diamant
4.20 avg rating — 783 ratings 
77. 
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by:
Harsha Walia
4.58 avg rating — 1,426 ratings 78. 
Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
by:
Joby Warrick
4.34 avg rating — 857 ratings 79. 
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following 3.33 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
80. 
Take It Back: Reclaiming Biblical Manhood for the Sake of Marriage, Family, and Culture
by:
Tim Clinton
4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings 81. 
Standing in the Way: From Trafficking Victim to Human Rights Activist
by:
Anjali Tamang
4.58 avg rating — 69 ratings 81. 
Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
by:
Susanne Foitzik
4.19 avg rating — 1,002 ratings 83. 
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
by:
Jess Zimmerman
3.71 avg rating — 3,025 ratings 
86. 
Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport
by:
Linda Blade
4.11 avg rating — 99 ratings 90. 
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by:
Yang Jisheng
3.95 avg rating — 353 ratings 
92. 
Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
by:
Gabrielle Korn
3.59 avg rating — 1,421 ratings 
93. 
Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office 4.28 avg rating — 4,549 ratings
95. 
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
by:
Bob Drury
4.05 avg rating — 3,603 ratings 
96. 
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
by:
Tom Higham
4.29 avg rating — 877 ratings 98. 
When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
by:
Susan H. Kamei
4.34 avg rating — 169 ratings 99. 
The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
by:
David Poses
4.20 avg rating — 2,280 ratings 100. 
Meditation: The First and Last Freedom: A Practical Guide to Osho Meditations
by:
Osho
4.12 avg rating — 2,085 ratings