Interesting and Readable Nonfiction

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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.94 avg rating — 107,266 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 4.01 avg rating — 70,870 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating — 89,882 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 4.49 avg rating — 210,904 ratings
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You're Never Weird on the Internet
You're Never Weird on the Internet 4.07 avg rating — 49,750 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,495 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,287 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton 4.22 avg rating — 194,777 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage 4.46 avg rating — 155,697 ratings
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams 4.37 avg rating — 215,783 ratings
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The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well 3.77 avg rating — 112,000 ratings
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Measure What Matters
Measure What Matters 3.98 avg rating — 36,280 ratings
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right 4.04 avg rating — 73,755 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating — 91,858 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating — 54,021 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,458 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit 3.90 avg rating — 82,163 ratings
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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,411 ratings
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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works 3.99 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom 4.19 avg rating — 489,653 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things 4.15 avg rating — 46,465 ratings
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder 4.10 avg rating — 56,004 ratings
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away 3.90 avg rating — 68,628 ratings
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Not My Father's Son
Not My Father's Son 4.05 avg rating — 46,604 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The World as Stage 3.82 avg rating — 48,085 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty 4.23 avg rating — 29,465 ratings
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How We Decide
How We Decide 3.84 avg rating — 41,299 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,171 ratings
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God 3.93 avg rating — 61,220 ratings
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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,432 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,599 ratings
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The Monster of Florence
The Monster of Florence 3.76 avg rating — 36,068 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,187 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Travels with Charley: In Search of America 4.08 avg rating — 103,301 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 4.09 avg rating — 233,266 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time 3.66 avg rating — 358,691 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating — 176,389 ratings
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Strengths Finder 2.0
Strengths Finder 2.0
by: Tom Rath
3.93 avg rating — 56,412 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 4.22 avg rating — 170,803 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black 3.72 avg rating — 204,769 ratings
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The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness 4.22 avg rating — 95,665 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,743 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,401 ratings
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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts 4.28 avg rating — 468,552 ratings
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy 4.05 avg rating — 130,126 ratings
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A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 162,860 ratings
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Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
by: Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating — 176,932 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 3.80 avg rating — 51,855 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us 4.01 avg rating — 32,460 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers 4.17 avg rating — 96,951 ratings
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Yes Please
Yes Please 3.85 avg rating — 548,551 ratings
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Adoption Stories
Adoption Stories 4.34 avg rating — 640 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions 4.14 avg rating — 191,217 ratings
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Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact
Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact 4.32 avg rating — 679 ratings
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
Women Who Run With the Wolves 4.11 avg rating — 90,549 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy 4.38 avg rating — 30,601 ratings
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Living in Harmony with the Real World Vol 3: Coping with Loss and Grief
Living in Harmony with the Real World Vol 3: Coping with Loss and Grief 4.33 avg rating — 851 ratings
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Searching for Ganesha: Collecting Images of the Sweet-Loving, Elephant-Headed Hindu Deity Everybody Admires
Searching for Ganesha: Collecting Images of the Sweet-Loving, Elephant-Headed Hindu Deity Everybody Admires 4.36 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History 3.75 avg rating — 75,176 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York 4.01 avg rating — 36,515 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,717 ratings
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us 3.95 avg rating — 123,665 ratings
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Hero With a Thousand Faces 4.13 avg rating — 44,163 ratings
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Digging for God
Digging for God 4.31 avg rating — 5,906 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,099 ratings
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The God Delusion
The God Delusion 3.90 avg rating — 279,328 ratings
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
MindHub: Personality Profiler 4.34 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 3.84 avg rating — 92,732 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War 4.30 avg rating — 67,946 ratings
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Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker 4.15 avg rating — 109,204 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,300 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927 4.10 avg rating — 53,983 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,325 ratings
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Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,699 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space 4.34 avg rating — 38,701 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love 3.64 avg rating — 1,819,840 ratings
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 4.38 avg rating — 99,863 ratings
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Black Like Me
Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating — 69,182 ratings
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Scrappy Little Nobody
Scrappy Little Nobody 3.85 avg rating — 102,451 ratings
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life 3.87 avg rating — 1,335,482 ratings
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Survival in Auschwitz
Survival in Auschwitz 4.34 avg rating — 83,602 ratings
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He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys 3.66 avg rating — 66,700 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,468 ratings
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My Life on the Road
My Life on the Road 4.07 avg rating — 36,280 ratings
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The Know-It-All
The Know-It-All 3.76 avg rating — 29,486 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating — 51,935 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 3.98 avg rating — 42,019 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating — 102,338 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey 4.21 avg rating — 74,675 ratings
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life 3.88 avg rating — 105,652 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,769 ratings
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 4.11 avg rating — 286,486 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,334 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 4.18 avg rating — 63,000 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics 4.27 avg rating — 82,445 ratings
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom 4.49 avg rating — 99,422 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't 3.97 avg rating — 51,882 ratings
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen 3.71 avg rating — 160,372 ratings
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