Colbert Report Book List
3. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,045 ratings
5. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by:
Katherine Boo
3.98 avg rating — 114,821 ratings 
7. 
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by:
Joshua Foer
3.88 avg rating — 93,078 ratings 
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The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
by:
Will Allen
3.96 avg rating — 1,567 ratings 
11. 
Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture
by:
Andy Cohen
3.81 avg rating — 16,895 ratings 
13. 
King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village 3.90 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
15. 
Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life
by:
James Martin
3.98 avg rating — 1,949 ratings 
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Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
by:
Aubrey de Grey
4.07 avg rating — 764 ratings 18. 
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
by:
John Lewis
4.35 avg rating — 6,237 ratings 
20. 
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
by:
Anthony Shadid
3.63 avg rating — 2,539 ratings 21. 
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by:
Charles Murray
3.80 avg rating — 5,642 ratings 
26. 
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by:
Nora Ephron
3.74 avg rating — 84,679 ratings 26. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating — 51,882 ratings 
29. 
Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen: Invasion of the Optiklons
by:
John Layman
3.34 avg rating — 320 ratings 30. 
The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
by:
Liza Mundy
3.59 avg rating — 320 ratings 31. 
A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver
by:
Mark K. Shriver
3.98 avg rating — 605 ratings 
35. 
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing 3.94 avg rating — 30,330 ratings
36. 
Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
by:
Daniel Klaidman
3.93 avg rating — 163 ratings 
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The Weight of the Nation: Surprising Lessons About Diets, Food, and Fat from the Extraordinary Series from HBO Documentary Films
by:
John Hoffman
3.50 avg rating — 169 ratings 41. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,328 ratings 42. 
The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
by:
Carne Ross
3.65 avg rating — 379 ratings 
45. 
We’re Losing Our Minds: Rethinking American Higher Education
by:
Richard Keeling
3.53 avg rating — 45 ratings 46. 
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
by:
Bob Lutz
3.74 avg rating — 1,110 ratings 
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics 4.26 avg rating — 10,889 ratings
54. 
A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future 3.67 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist
by:
Jack Abramoff
3.43 avg rating — 331 ratings 
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The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
by:
Thomas Thwaites
3.90 avg rating — 1,417 ratings 64. 
65. 
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
by:
Errol Morris
3.64 avg rating — 1,668 ratings