Great Books About Failure
3. 
Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables
by:
Phil Vischer
4.39 avg rating — 3,045 ratings 4. 
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
by:
Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings 5. 
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
by:
Scott Adams
4.06 avg rating — 20,255 ratings 6. 
Steven D. Lavine. Failure is What It's All About: A Life Devoted to Leadership in the Arts it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
7. 
Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re
by:
Andreas Kluth
4.27 avg rating — 800 ratings 8. 
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
by:
Howard Schultz
3.86 avg rating — 30,202 ratings 9. 
Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million
by:
Cliff Lerner
4.16 avg rating — 922 ratings 10. 
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great, 4)
by:
Jim Collins
3.98 avg rating — 10,095 ratings 11. 
We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
by:
Simon Zingerman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 69 ratings 12. 
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
by:
Seth Godin
3.79 avg rating — 37,234 ratings 13. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 14. 
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight 3.65 avg rating — 127 ratings
15. 
Needless Suffering: How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain
by:
David Nagel
3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings 16. 
Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss
by:
Craig Pittman
4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings 17. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,681 ratings 18. 
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
by:
James R. Green
4.33 avg rating — 569 ratings 
19. 
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.73 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 19. 
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success
by:
John C. Maxwell
4.18 avg rating — 12,131 ratings 22. 
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
by:
Jesse Eisinger
3.79 avg rating — 1,876 ratings 23. 
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
by:
Vandana Shiva
3.93 avg rating — 419 ratings 24. 
The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
by:
Jason Vuic
3.75 avg rating — 650 ratings 24. 
California Comeback: How A "Failed State" Became a Model for the Nation
by:
Narda Zacchino
3.83 avg rating — 41 ratings 26. 
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
by:
Guy Kawasaki
3.90 avg rating — 29,087 ratings 
28. 
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,111 ratings 30. 
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back 3.81 avg rating — 4,013 ratings
30. 
iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
by:
Jeffrey S. Young
4.06 avg rating — 10,626 ratings 30. 
Dead Wrong: The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious B.I.G. Murder Investigation
by:
Randall Sullivan
4.13 avg rating — 122 ratings 33. 
The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self
by:
William Westney
4.28 avg rating — 330 ratings 
36. 
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
4.17 avg rating — 916 ratings 
39. 
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
by:
Marc J. Seifer
3.73 avg rating — 6,430 ratings 39. 
Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong: The Life and Music of Randy Newman
by:
David Stafford
3.14 avg rating — 43 ratings 41. 
Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer 4.05 avg rating — 5,825 ratings
43. 
What's Wrong with Mindfulness (And What Isn't): Zen Perspectives
by:
Robert Rosenbaum
3.32 avg rating — 40 ratings 44. 
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by:
Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,413 ratings 45. 
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.15 avg rating — 8,228 ratings 
47. 
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
by:
Chuck Klosterman
3.66 avg rating — 18,270 ratings 48. 
Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism 3.58 avg rating — 110 ratings
49. 
50. 
The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
by:
James S. Liebman
4.24 avg rating — 151 ratings 51. 
Packed for the Wrong Trip: A New Look inside Abu Ghraib and the Citizen-Soldiers Who Redeemed America's Honor
by:
W. Zach Griffith
4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings 52. 
53. 
54. 
LIFE: You're Doing It Wrong - Why People Don't Get Better Results from Self Improvement ... And what to do about it
by:
Robert Manis
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings 55. 
SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq (2013 Edition)
by:
Greg Mitchell
3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings 56. 
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
by:
Dave Eggers
4.30 avg rating — 352 ratings 57. 
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by:
Helen Prejean
4.21 avg rating — 752 ratings 58. 
Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
by:
Barry Scheck
4.15 avg rating — 899 ratings 59. 
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,111 ratings 60. 
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
by:
Jim Wallis
3.66 avg rating — 3,556 ratings 61. 
Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1996
by:
Harry S. Ashmore
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 62. 
Beyond Outrage (Expanded Edition): What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
by:
Robert B. Reich
4.07 avg rating — 2,130 ratings 63. 
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East
by:
Bernard Lewis
3.54 avg rating — 3,867 ratings 64. 
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.13 avg rating — 20,007 ratings 
66. 
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
by:
Chris Clearfield
4.06 avg rating — 1,347 ratings 67. 
Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul
by:
Anthony Graves
4.41 avg rating — 182 ratings 
70. 
The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches
by:
Adam Fairclough
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 71. 
Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill
by:
D.J. Jaffe
3.67 avg rating — 187 ratings 72. 
75. 
All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses—And How We Can Fix It Together
by:
Josh Levs
3.53 avg rating — 116 ratings 76. 
Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
by:
Jon Fine
3.61 avg rating — 652 ratings 77. 
#Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will
by:
Jamie Kilstein
3.91 avg rating — 462 ratings 78. 
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
by:
Sarah Lewis
3.66 avg rating — 1,051 ratings 79. 
Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries
by:
Guy Winch
3.86 avg rating — 4,389 ratings 80. 
The More We Know: NBC News, Educational Innovation, and Learning from Failure
by:
Eric Klopfer
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
82. 
Blind Spot: Why We Fail to See the Solution Right in Front of Us
by:
Gordon Rugg
3.31 avg rating — 72 ratings 83. 
Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters 3.92 avg rating — 260 ratings
85. 
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
by:
Ahmed Rashid
3.95 avg rating — 2,624 ratings 86. 
God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
by:
Bart D. Ehrman
3.95 avg rating — 5,894 ratings 87. 
Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror
by:
Bob Graham
3.92 avg rating — 115 ratings 88. 
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
by:
Charles Lane
4.09 avg rating — 431 ratings 89. 
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
90. 
Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
by:
C. Vann Woodward
3.68 avg rating — 72 ratings 91. 
What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (The American South Series)
by:
Bruce E. Baker
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 
93. 
94. 
95. 
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice 4.31 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
96. 
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
97. 
Slavery in the Land of the Free: A Student's Guide to Modern Day Slavery 3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings
98. 
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,508 ratings
99. 
