[ATY 2021] - Nonfiction That's Not A Memoir or Biography
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.13 avg rating β 46,329 ratings 4. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating β 425,954 ratings 5. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating β 38,318 ratings 6. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating β 115,042 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating β 465,706 ratings 10. 
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by:
Matthew Walker
4.37 avg rating β 215,756 ratings 11. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating β 239,790 ratings 
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of Americaβs Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating β 176,369 ratings 15. 
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
by:
Garrett M. Graff
4.72 avg rating β 41,757 ratings 
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.30 avg rating β 45,184 ratings 18. 
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 4.37 avg rating β 61,001 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating β 885,800 ratings 21. 
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by:
Tim Marshall
4.19 avg rating β 110,340 ratings 
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating β 64,219 ratings 
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by:
Jon Ronson
3.95 avg rating β 155,555 ratings 28. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,256 ratings 29. 
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating β 257,765 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating β 149,017 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating β 113,281 ratings 
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating β 84,758 ratings 
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by:
Charles Duhigg
4.13 avg rating β 549,093 ratings 41. 
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
by:
Frans de Waal
3.97 avg rating β 16,185 ratings 
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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
by:
Hope Jahren
4.14 avg rating β 6,981 ratings 
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by:
Ross King
3.91 avg rating β 27,847 ratings 46. 
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating β 109,928 ratings 48. 
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating β 158,430 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating β 44,181 ratings
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by:
Mikki Kendall
4.36 avg rating β 60,789 ratings 52. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating β 276,360 ratings 53. 
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
by:
Reni Eddo-Lodge
4.38 avg rating β 99,859 ratings 54. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating β 99,680 ratings 55. 
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 329,288 ratings 56. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating β 81,272 ratings 57. 
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by:
Anthony Bourdain
4.18 avg rating β 359,825 ratings 58. 
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
by:
Rachel Hollis
3.78 avg rating β 89,811 ratings 
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by:
Robin DiAngelo
4.16 avg rating β 170,206 ratings 64. 
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by:
Sebastian Junger
4.12 avg rating β 117,723 ratings 
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating β 21,501 ratings 
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
by:
Marie KondΕ
3.88 avg rating β 386,269 ratings 
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.22 avg rating β 104,614 ratings 
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.97 avg rating β 189,399 ratings 73. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating β 59,460 ratings 74. 
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
by:
Adam Rutherford
4.03 avg rating β 11,637 ratings 
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
by:
Trevor Corson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4,597 ratings 78. 
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
by:
Michael Finkel
3.90 avg rating β 82,152 ratings 79. 
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
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Jenny Nordberg
4.11 avg rating β 13,993 ratings 79. 
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 4.40 avg rating β 62,914 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by:
Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating β 54,823 ratings 82. 
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by:
Lynne Truss
3.87 avg rating β 106,065 ratings 83. 
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by:
Cal Newport
4.06 avg rating β 91,770 ratings 84. 
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by:
Jim DeFede
4.25 avg rating β 62,178 ratings 85. 
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrongβand the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by:
Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating β 9,412 ratings 86. 
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
by:
Adam Rutherford
3.90 avg rating β 6,496 ratings 87. 
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlβA National Book Award Winner
by:
Timothy Egan
4.06 avg rating β 60,119 ratings 88. 
Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential
by:
Roman Russo
4.52 avg rating β 27 ratings 
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
by:
Angela Chen
4.35 avg rating β 18,721 ratings 91. 
The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life
by:
Lauren Martin
3.84 avg rating β 4,601 ratings 91. 
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
by:
Jane Ziegelman
3.75 avg rating β 2,207 ratings 
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
by:
Gene Weingarten
3.94 avg rating β 3,759 ratings 94. 
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
by:
Patrik Svensson
3.92 avg rating β 21,232 ratings 97. 
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
by:
Ainissa Ramirez
3.91 avg rating β 1,319 ratings 
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
by:
Bill Bryson
3.91 avg rating β 43,557 ratings 98. 
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.16 avg rating β 7,098 ratings