Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by:
Irin Carmon
4.18 avg rating — 63,004 ratings 103. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,058 ratings
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
by:
John Heilemann
4.13 avg rating — 22,715 ratings 
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
3.87 avg rating — 46,528 ratings 
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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 — 110,374 ratings 109. 
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 4.16 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings 111. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,390 ratings 112. 
Heroes in Good Company: L Company, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division 1943-1945
by:
Skyler Bailey
4.74 avg rating — 23 ratings 112. 
On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
by:
Ed Cohen
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 112. 
All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home
by:
E.M. Liddick
4.46 avg rating — 67 ratings 
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Nature's Last Dance: Tales of wonder in an age of extinction
by:
Natalie Kyriacou
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 117. 
Manage My Emotions: What I Wish I'd Learned in School about Anger, Fear and Love
by:
Kenneth J. Martz
4.06 avg rating — 96 ratings 118. 
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
by:
Colin Kaepernick
4.34 avg rating — 176 ratings 
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,305 ratings 126. 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating — 220,460 ratings 
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Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)
by:
Bart D. Ehrman
3.99 avg rating — 10,810 ratings 
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
by:
Michio Kaku
4.10 avg rating — 40,957 ratings 131. 
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
by:
Hampton Sides
4.25 avg rating — 38,787 ratings 132. 
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
by:
Adam Nicolson
3.78 avg rating — 2,086 ratings 
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by:
Antonia Fraser
3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings 
140. 
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
by:
Neal Bascomb
4.26 avg rating — 6,807 ratings 
141. 
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,243 ratings 143. 
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
by:
Ross King
3.85 avg rating — 14,510 ratings 144. 
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.20 avg rating — 87,501 ratings 145. 
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Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit
by:
Marcus Attwater
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 150. 
Sis, Love the Lord AND ENJOY THAT MAN: Tips for Awesome Sex with your Husband
by:
Ms. Essie
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 151. 
Deep Sleep for beginners: Sleep Smarter Book (Nonfiction for Beginners)
by:
A. J. Cameron
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 
153. 
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
by:
Bart D. Ehrman
3.93 avg rating — 19,886 ratings 154. 
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
by:
Nina Willner
4.37 avg rating — 12,282 ratings 
157. 
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by:
Anthony Bourdain
4.18 avg rating — 359,944 ratings 159. 
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating — 149,116 ratings
160. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,426 ratings 
162. 
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by:
Merlin Sheldrake
4.33 avg rating — 47,241 ratings 
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Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
by:
Alison Arngrim
4.09 avg rating — 18,175 ratings 167. 
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by:
Robert Kolker
4.15 avg rating — 139,653 ratings 
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Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings 4.27 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
170. 
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
by:
Guy Deutscher
3.91 avg rating — 7,179 ratings 171. 
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
by:
Nick Reding
3.69 avg rating — 6,840 ratings 172. 
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,882 ratings
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Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
by:
Héctor Tobar
3.92 avg rating — 11,838 ratings 174. 
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating — 37,886 ratings 
177. 
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
by:
Ian Mortimer
4.01 avg rating — 25,926 ratings 
179. 
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
by:
Greg Mortenson
3.66 avg rating — 358,694 ratings 180. 
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 329,348 ratings 181. 
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by:
Charles Duhigg
4.13 avg rating — 549,178 ratings 
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The Truth of All that Is: The Angel book to Enlightenment and Personal Transformation
by:
Amelia Bert
4.45 avg rating — 96 ratings 
183. 
The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way 4.10 avg rating — 60 ratings
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How to Thrive in the 21st Century - By Avoiding Porn and Other Distractions
by:
Havard Mela
4.17 avg rating — 77 ratings 188. 
Machine Learning: An Introduction Math Guide for Beginners to Understand Data Science Through the Business Applications
by:
Samuel Hack
4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings 189. 
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
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No Pressure, No Diamonds: Mining for Gifts in Illness and Loss
by:
Teri A. Dillion
4.64 avg rating — 163 ratings 
192. 
Mindfulness for Beginners (Nonfiction for Beginners)
by:
A. J. Cameron
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 195. 
Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge
by:
Thomas Fleming
4.06 avg rating — 1,795 ratings 196. 
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
by:
A.J. Jacobs
3.75 avg rating — 14,917 ratings 196. 
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by:
Mark Manson
3.87 avg rating — 1,335,734 ratings 
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
by:
Peter Heather
4.16 avg rating — 4,270 ratings 199. 
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants 4.45 avg rating — 3,471 ratings