Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
1. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating β 885,782 ratings 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,002 ratings 
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by:
Bill Bryson
4.07 avg rating β 436,076 ratings 10. 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating β 465,688 ratings 11. 
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx CodeβSocialism with a Human Face:
by:
Todor Bombov
4.31 avg rating β 6,029 ratings 12. 
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.96 avg rating β 614,650 ratings 13. 
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 β 739,701 ratings 
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by:
Eric Schlosser
3.75 avg rating β 206,249 ratings 
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.26 avg rating β 550,894 ratings 21. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating β 844,189 ratings 
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Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
by:
Kenneth Schmitt
4.37 avg rating β 1,527 ratings 25. 
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by:
Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating β 208,893 ratings 
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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
by:
Lois P. Frankel
3.67 avg rating β 19,373 ratings 
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
by:
Corrie ten Boom
4.47 avg rating β 348,474 ratings 
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by:
Cheryl Strayed
4.07 avg rating β 850,404 ratings 
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by:
Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating β 568,889 ratings 
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating β 99,671 ratings 38. 
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by:
Anthony Bourdain
4.18 avg rating β 359,770 ratings 
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating β 228,764 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating β 239,781 ratings 42. 
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by:
Michael Parenti
4.40 avg rating β 8,483 ratings 43. 
AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
by:
Ronald M. Razmi
4.28 avg rating β 7,283 ratings 44. 
Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions
by:
Jack Posobiec
4.09 avg rating β 884 ratings 45. 
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by:
Jon Ronson
3.95 avg rating β 155,549 ratings 
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating β 72,714 ratings 
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by:
Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating β 87,592 ratings 
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating β 989,118 ratings
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Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
by:
Clay Risen
4.27 avg rating β 624 ratings 
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating β 119,577 ratings 60. 
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by:
David Grann
3.90 avg rating β 106,804 ratings 
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Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
by:
Noam Chomsky
4.34 avg rating β 1,603 ratings 67. 
Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
by:
Yuan Yang
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,320 ratings 
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating β 213,184 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating β 215,169 ratings 73. 
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by:
Steven D. Levitt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 133,652 ratings 74. 
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
by:
Mo Gawdat
3.82 avg rating β 3,012 ratings 75. 
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating β 120,596 ratings 76. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating β 59,455 ratings 77. 
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
by:
Brian Christian
4.35 avg rating β 4,511 ratings 
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by:
Mustafa Suleyman
3.82 avg rating β 12,105 ratings 
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by:
Judea Pearl
3.94 avg rating β 6,381 ratings 88. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,254 ratings 89. 
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
by:
Gavin de Becker
4.18 avg rating β 49,281 ratings 90. 
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 β 110,327 ratings 91. 
Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days
by:
Donna Ashworth
4.31 avg rating β 1,285 ratings 
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Co-Intelligence: The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI
by:
Ethan Mollick
3.97 avg rating β 11,512 ratings 95. 
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
by:
Joy Buolamwini
4.11 avg rating β 1,479 ratings 96. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating β 129,355 ratings 97. 
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by:
Max Tegmark
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 26,825 ratings 98. 
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
by:
Tim Butcher
3.81 avg rating β 4,036 ratings 99. 
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by:
Mitch Albom
4.20 avg rating β 1,153,849 ratings 