Powerful International Non-Fiction
1. 
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating β 55,460 ratings
2. 
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
by:
Conor Grennan
4.26 avg rating β 23,240 ratings 
4. 
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
by:
Greg Mortenson
3.66 avg rating β 358,692 ratings 
6. 
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.20 avg rating β 87,494 ratings 
8. 
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by:
Barbara Demick
4.45 avg rating β 96,072 ratings 9. 
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
by:
Somaly Mam
4.20 avg rating β 8,709 ratings 10. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating β 612,719 ratings 11. 
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating β 31,880 ratings
12. 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating β 52,427 ratings 13. 
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children 4.26 avg rating β 3,402 ratings
14. 
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.19 avg rating β 66,221 ratings 15. 
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
by:
Samantha Power
4.26 avg rating β 10,878 ratings 16. 
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by:
Greg Mortenson
3.85 avg rating β 17,061 ratings 17. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by:
Katherine Boo
3.98 avg rating β 114,821 ratings 18. 
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating β 35,955 ratings
20. 
A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
by:
Lisa J. Shannon
3.79 avg rating β 2,290 ratings 
22. 
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
by:
Jean Sasson
4.03 avg rating β 38,921 ratings 
24. 
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.04 avg rating β 17,102 ratings 25. 
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity 4.32 avg rating β 7,402 ratings
28. 
Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
by:
Zainab Salbi
4.23 avg rating β 3,064 ratings 29. 
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
by:
Leymah Gbowee
4.16 avg rating β 4,306 ratings 
33. 
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
by:
Halima Bashir
4.23 avg rating β 4,270 ratings 34. 
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating β 228,800 ratings
38. 
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by:
Alexandra Fuller
3.97 avg rating β 56,659 ratings 39. 
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World 3.99 avg rating β 7,080 ratings
42. 
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating β 778,826 ratings 
48. 
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating β 72,726 ratings 49. 
NORTH KOREA BEHIND THE VEIL. Inside stories and private, uncensored images.
by:
Felix Abt
3.81 avg rating β 31 ratings 
50. 
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe 3.76 avg rating β 18,162 ratings
57. 
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
by:
Kris Holloway
4.17 avg rating β 4,983 ratings 58. 
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
by:
Zlata FilipoviΔ
3.76 avg rating β 12,198 ratings 
60. 
θ΅°εΎθΆθΏ,离θͺε·±θΆθΏ The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me
by:
Hong Mei
3.65 avg rating β 1,163 ratings 61. 
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
by:
Tom Carter
3.59 avg rating β 197 ratings 62. 
However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph
by:
Aimee Molloy
4.21 avg rating β 1,216 ratings 63. 
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
by:
James Maskalyk
4.01 avg rating β 1,230 ratings 64. 
66. 
The Millennium Trilogy (Millennium Trilogy, #1-3)
by:
Stieg Larsson
4.47 avg rating β 57,008 ratings 67. 
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
by:
John Carlin
4.18 avg rating β 5,451 ratings 
69. 
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
by:
Peter Godwin
4.06 avg rating β 1,979 ratings 
72. 
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
by:
Anderson Cooper
3.98 avg rating β 9,531 ratings 73. 
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by:
Art Spiegelman
4.39 avg rating β 365,602 ratings 
74. 
The Corridor of Uncertainty: How Cricket Mended a Torn Nation
by:
Nihar Suthar
4.15 avg rating β 52 ratings 
77. 
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
by:
Kevin Bales
4.22 avg rating β 1,456 ratings 
79. 
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution 4.13 avg rating β 1,900 ratings
82. 
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by:
Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating β 662 ratings 82. 
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
by:
Corrie ten Boom
4.47 avg rating β 348,522 ratings 82. 
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by:
Jake Johnston
4.14 avg rating β 209 ratings 
86. 
Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival
by:
Atka Reid
4.23 avg rating β 2,475 ratings 89. 
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
by:
Nina Munk
3.93 avg rating β 1,450 ratings 
90. 
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by:
Marjane Satrapi
4.27 avg rating β 224,938 ratings 90. 
Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage
by:
Kay Bratt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4,153 ratings 90. 
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
by:
Simon Wiesenthal
4.11 avg rating β 9,746 ratings 
95. 
To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge
by:
Denise Affonço
3.85 avg rating β 649 ratings 
98. 
Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies' Table Our Journey Through the Middle East
by:
Ted Dekker
3.86 avg rating β 1,350 ratings 
