The Gentlemen's Non-Fiction Book Club
1. 
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
by:
Ray Dalio
4.27 avg rating β 15,904 ratings 2. 
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
by:
Gordon S. Wood
4.13 avg rating β 1,789 ratings 
5. 
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by:
Bill Browder
4.44 avg rating β 104,275 ratings 6. 
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by:
Tim Wu
4.08 avg rating β 4,775 ratings 7. 
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
by:
Ruchir Sharma
4.14 avg rating β 2,685 ratings 8. 
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by:
Rana Foroohar
3.97 avg rating β 1,621 ratings 
10. 
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating β 149,037 ratings
11. 
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia 3.97 avg rating β 11,441 ratings
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
by:
David E. Hoffman
4.16 avg rating β 5,432 ratings 15. 
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
by:
Amy Chua
3.82 avg rating β 1,352 ratings 16. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating β 26,727 ratings 17. 
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by:
Edmund Morris
4.23 avg rating β 59,126 ratings 18. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating β 276,370 ratings 19. 
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age 3.83 avg rating β 12,692 ratings
22. 
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
by:
David E. Sanger
4.25 avg rating β 3,384 ratings 23. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World β and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating β 197,288 ratings 
25. 
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by:
Mark Miodownik
4.11 avg rating β 20,495 ratings 26. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,213 ratings 
28. 
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
by:
Paul Scharre
3.81 avg rating β 2,777 ratings 
30. 
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire 4.20 avg rating β 17,363 ratings
31. 
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydidesβs Trap?
by:
Graham Allison
4.20 avg rating β 7,032 ratings 32. 
The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York
by:
Tom Roston
4.09 avg rating β 516 ratings 33. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating β 42,018 ratings 34. 
The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant
by:
Ulysses S. Grant
4.13 avg rating β 9,497 ratings 35. 
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century
by:
Howard Blum
3.51 avg rating β 3,046 ratings 
38. 
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
by:
Neil Shubin
4.14 avg rating β 2,603 ratings 39. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating β 28,487 ratings 40. 
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
by:
Sheldon Solomon
4.11 avg rating β 1,824 ratings 41. 
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating β 132,003 ratings 42. 
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by:
Merlin Sheldrake
4.33 avg rating β 47,225 ratings 43. 
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating β 39,742 ratings 44. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating β 129,362 ratings 45. 
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by:
Anthony Everitt
3.89 avg rating β 8,070 ratings 
48. 
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.52 avg rating β 83,063 ratings 49. 
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse
by:
Jordan Ellenberg
3.73 avg rating β 2,026 ratings 50. 
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 4.34 avg rating β 6,315 ratings
52. 
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
by:
Virginia Postrel
4.15 avg rating β 2,486 ratings 53. 
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
by:
Daniel Ellsberg
4.21 avg rating β 3,121 ratings 54. 
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage
by:
Stephanie Coontz
3.98 avg rating β 3,625 ratings 
56. 
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating β 352,768 ratings
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by:
Ed Yong
4.47 avg rating β 32,511 ratings 
60. 
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold WarβA Tragedy in Three Acts
by:
Scott Anderson
4.13 avg rating β 2,856 ratings 61. 
62. 
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
by:
David McCullough
3.82 avg rating β 26,714 ratings 63. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating β 30,337 ratings 64. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating β 425,977 ratings 
66. 
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
by:
Chris Miller
4.41 avg rating β 36,747 ratings 67. 
68. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating β 63,327 ratings 69. 
How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying About God and the Bible
by:
Richard Smoley
3.75 avg rating β 109 ratings 70. 
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe
by:
Harry Cliff
4.44 avg rating β 633 ratings 
72. 
Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
by:
Tucker Malarkey
4.30 avg rating β 905 ratings 