Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
3. 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating — 465,719 ratings 
5. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating — 885,815 ratings 
7. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,186 ratings
8. 
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 — 739,790 ratings 
10. 
How to Hack Back Your Mind: Reclaim Control Over Your Life
by:
Ramzi Najjar
4.52 avg rating — 65 ratings 
15. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,260 ratings 
19. 
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by:
Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating — 208,899 ratings 
22. 
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by:
Atul Gawande
4.49 avg rating — 210,889 ratings 
26. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 
30. 
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by:
Joshua Foer
3.88 avg rating — 93,074 ratings 31. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,184 ratings 
33. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,700 ratings 34. 
The Ultimate Human Secrets: The Hidden Power in Our Mysterious Unconscious Knowledge
by:
Ramzi Najjar
4.61 avg rating — 161 ratings 
37. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,283 ratings 38. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,274 ratings 39. 
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating — 228,784 ratings
40. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 425,972 ratings 41. 
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by:
Candice Millard
4.21 avg rating — 74,673 ratings 42. 
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,767 ratings
43. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,460 ratings 44. 
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,181 ratings 45. 
46. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,485 ratings 47. 
The Echoes of Enigma: Illuminating Life's Profound Akashic Mysteries
by:
Ramzi Najjar
4.82 avg rating — 28 ratings 
51. 
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by:
Matthew Walker
4.37 avg rating — 215,760 ratings 
53. 
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
by:
Allie Brosh
4.17 avg rating — 213,864 ratings 
56. 
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by:
Timothy Egan
4.06 avg rating — 60,120 ratings 
58. 
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by:
Alexandra Fuller
3.97 avg rating — 56,654 ratings 
62. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by:
Katherine Boo
3.98 avg rating — 114,817 ratings 63. 
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by:
Brian Greene
4.13 avg rating — 40,010 ratings 
65. 
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,834 ratings
66. 
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating — 102,339 ratings
69. 
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
by:
Jenny Lawson
3.89 avg rating — 171,417 ratings 70. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating — 488,807 ratings 71. 
Our Matrix Decoded: How Our Reality is Rigged and How to Break Free
by:
Ramzi Najjar
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 72. 
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
by:
Vanessa Woods
4.01 avg rating — 2,027 ratings 
75. 
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by:
Tom Holland
4.17 avg rating — 11,230 ratings 
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
by:
Eric R. Kandel
4.21 avg rating — 1,811 ratings 
80. 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by:
Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating — 24,555 ratings 
82. 
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
by:
Andrés Reséndez
4.06 avg rating — 2,060 ratings 83. 
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.42 avg rating — 23,634 ratings 
85. 
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Jack Weatherford
4.06 avg rating — 81,003 ratings 86. 
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
by:
Therese Oneill
3.82 avg rating — 9,083 ratings 87. 
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by:
Liaquat Ahamed
4.03 avg rating — 16,187 ratings 88. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,320 ratings 89. 
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
by:
Hampton Sides
4.33 avg rating — 13,982 ratings 
91. 
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating — 84,761 ratings 92. 
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by:
David Grann
3.90 avg rating — 106,821 ratings 
95. 
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
by:
Peter Watson
4.30 avg rating — 1,135 ratings 96. 
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 4.18 avg rating — 18,438 ratings
97. 
The Art of Pushing Forward: A Guide to Overcoming Life's Resistance
by:
Ramzi Najjar
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 98. 
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,752 ratings 99. 
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,333 ratings
100. 
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating — 89,902 ratings