4+ Stars on Gwern.net
1. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating β 276,374 ratings 
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating β 29,269 ratings 
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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
by:
Adam Tooze
4.53 avg rating β 2,863 ratings 6. 
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
by:
Allie Brosh
4.17 avg rating β 213,870 ratings 
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by:
Erik Larson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 739,799 ratings 
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by:
Eric Hoffer
4.20 avg rating β 11,541 ratings 16. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions FailβBut Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating β 51,882 ratings 
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating β 59,461 ratings 20. 
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
by:
Keith Lowe
4.23 avg rating β 4,485 ratings 
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The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
by:
Glen Cook
3.93 avg rating β 53,322 ratings 24. 
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by:
Steven Levy
3.84 avg rating β 29,917 ratings 
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by:
Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating β 7,934 ratings 30. 
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by:
Liaquat Ahamed
4.03 avg rating β 16,187 ratings 
32. 
Dreams of Steel (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #5)
by:
Glen Cook
4.11 avg rating β 10,964 ratings 33. 
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by:
Robert Kanigel
4.03 avg rating β 8,789 ratings 
35. 
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by:
Nathaniel Popper
4.15 avg rating β 6,851 ratings 36. 
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by:
Bernard Bailyn
4.05 avg rating β 4,353 ratings 
39. 
Red Plenty: Inside the Fiftiesβ Soviet Dream
by:
Francis Spufford
4.07 avg rating β 4,359 ratings 
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by:
Francis Fukuyama
4.18 avg rating β 10,198 ratings 
45. 
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street 4.18 avg rating β 4,456 ratings
47. 
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by:
George Dyson
3.60 avg rating β 4,673 ratings 48. 
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle 3.97 avg rating β 5,898 ratings
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
by:
Graham Robb
3.99 avg rating β 2,573 ratings 
53. 
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
by:
Frank DikΓΆtter
4.06 avg rating β 1,956 ratings 54. 
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (The Iron Dragon's Daughter #1)
by:
Michael Swanwick
3.66 avg rating β 4,216 ratings 55. 
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
by:
John Bradshaw
3.56 avg rating β 4,035 ratings 
57. 
Web Typography: A handbook for designing beautiful and effective responsive typography
by:
Richard Rutter
4.67 avg rating β 43 ratings 
63. 
The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic
by:
A.E. Stallings
4.46 avg rating β 76 ratings 64. 
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third 3.99 avg rating β 786 ratings
68. 
Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice 4.21 avg rating β 827 ratings
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Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High.
by:
Mike Power
4.09 avg rating β 207 ratings 
75. 
McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War
by:
Hamilton Gregory
4.30 avg rating β 305 ratings 76. 
The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field
by:
Jacques Hadamard
3.97 avg rating β 207 ratings 77. 
The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
by:
David Plotz
3.54 avg rating β 938 ratings 78. 
Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus 3.89 avg rating β 343 ratings
81. 
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family
by:
Peter Byrne
4.03 avg rating β 156 ratings 82. 
Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
by:
James D. Miller
3.69 avg rating β 164 ratings 
84. 
The Book of Lord Shang - A Classic of the Chinese School of Law
by:
Shang Yang
3.86 avg rating β 139 ratings 85. 
Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?
by:
Max G. Gergel
3.78 avg rating β 80 ratings 86. 
The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan
by:
Ann Jannetta
3.93 avg rating β 14 ratings 
88. 
A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics 3.63 avg rating β 27 ratings
89. 
Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993
by:
Alex Roland
3.27 avg rating β 15 ratings 90. 
The Notenki Memoirs: Studio Gainax & The Men Who Created Evangelion
by:
Yasuhiro Takeda
3.65 avg rating β 54 ratings 91. 
A History of Life-Extensionism in the Twentieth Century
by:
Ilia Stambler
3.90 avg rating β 10 ratings 92. 
Fujiwara Teika's Hundred-Poem Sequence of the ShΕji Era, 1200: A Complete Translation, with Introduction and Commentary 4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England
by:
Nicholas Russell
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings