Powerful International Non-Fiction
100. 
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
by:
Francis Bok
4.11 avg rating β 691 ratings 102. 
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
by:
Ben Rawlence
4.02 avg rating β 3,370 ratings 
104. 
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
by:
Shlomo Venezia
4.39 avg rating β 4,202 ratings 
106. 
A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan
by:
Nelofer Pazira
3.86 avg rating β 856 ratings 107. 
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
by:
Chanrithy Him
4.18 avg rating β 4,944 ratings 
107. 
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
by:
Pascal Khoo Thwe
4.14 avg rating β 1,777 ratings 110. 
The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes
by:
John Prendergast
3.69 avg rating β 140 ratings 111. 
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
by:
Helen C. Epstein
4.09 avg rating β 1,008 ratings 112. 
Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals 3.81 avg rating β 78 ratings
113. 
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by:
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 avg rating β 10,336 ratings 114. 
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating β 149,045 ratings
116. 
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
by:
Haruki Murakami
3.91 avg rating β 21,849 ratings 
119. 
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating β 93,181 ratings 120. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,038 ratings 
122. 
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Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World
by:
Doc Hendley
3.95 avg rating β 782 ratings 
122. 
Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
by:
Wayne Deeker
4.40 avg rating β 10 ratings 
122. 
Passport through Darkness: A True Story of Danger and Second Chances 4.18 avg rating β 937 ratings
122. 
Lay Down Your Guns: One Doctor's Battle for Hope and Healing in Honduras
by:
Greg R. Taylor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 28 ratings 
122. 
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by:
Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating β 342 ratings 
122. 
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by:
Cheryl Strayed
4.07 avg rating β 850,483 ratings 122. 
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
by:
Tamim Ansary
3.90 avg rating β 1,727 ratings 
122. 
#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula
by:
Rohith Vemula
3.90 avg rating β 62 ratings 
122. 
122. 
My Life As A Woman: World Edition: Women Inspiring Women In 2020 And Beyond
by:
Matthew Gates
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 5 ratings 122. 
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It 4.10 avg rating β 398 ratings
122. 
Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices 4.23 avg rating β 17,336 ratings
148. 
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
by:
Blaine Harden
4.01 avg rating β 70,870 ratings 
148. 
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by:
Geraldine Brooks
4.05 avg rating β 14,927 ratings 148. 
148. 
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
by:
Mary Beard
3.70 avg rating β 2,354 ratings 
148. 
Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives 4.30 avg rating β 1,190 ratings
161. 
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by:
Bryan Sykes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7,556 ratings 161. 
The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman's Extraordinary Journey into Jihad
by:
Sally Neighbour
3.80 avg rating β 60 ratings 
161. 
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands
by:
Aatish Taseer
3.72 avg rating β 853 ratings 161. 
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating β 75,648 ratings
161. 
A Gift From Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram 4.23 avg rating β 364 ratings
161. 
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
by:
Siddharth Kara
4.36 avg rating β 14,151 ratings 171. 
Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War
by:
Stacy Sullivan
3.98 avg rating β 63 ratings 171. 
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
by:
Afschineh Latifi
4.06 avg rating β 551 ratings 
171. 
Blood of the Isles: Exploring the Genetic Roots of Our Tribal History
by:
Bryan Sykes
3.86 avg rating β 2,138 ratings 
171. 
171. 
Preemptive Love: Pursuing Peace One Heart at a Time
by:
Jeremy Courtney
4.29 avg rating β 535 ratings 171. 
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience
by:
Perumal Murugan
4.23 avg rating β 66 ratings 
171. 
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by:
Jake Johnston
4.14 avg rating β 209 ratings 182. 
Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Tradeβand How We Can Fight It
by:
David Batstone
4.25 avg rating β 1,914 ratings 182. 
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
by:
Jasmin Darznik
3.95 avg rating β 3,718 ratings 182. 
In the Shadow of Freedom: A Heroic Journey to Liberation, Manhood, and America 4.31 avg rating β 221 ratings
182. 
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
by:
Nina Willner
4.37 avg rating β 12,281 ratings 182. 
From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada
by:
Sudha Bharadwaj
4.58 avg rating β 78 ratings 191. 
191. 
Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food and Globalization
by:
Deborah Barndt
3.57 avg rating β 21 ratings 
191. 
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 4.40 avg rating β 62,919 ratings
191. 
Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of IdentityβMy Own and What It Means to Be a Woman in Chaos
by:
Manal M. Omar
3.69 avg rating β 1,011 ratings 
191. 
How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners
by:
Suchitra Vijayan
4.53 avg rating β 34 ratings 191. 
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
by:
Siddharth Kara
4.41 avg rating β 51 ratings 200. 
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
by:
Jang Jin-sung
4.33 avg rating β 9,246 ratings