Acclaimed Non-Fiction of 2014
1. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings 2. 
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 191,225 ratings 3. 
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by:
Michio Kaku
4.08 avg rating — 15,339 ratings 5. 
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
by:
Karen Abbott
3.76 avg rating — 16,838 ratings 6. 
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings 7. 
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
by:
Michael Buckley
4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings 
9. 
Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife
by:
John M. Marzluff
3.87 avg rating — 216 ratings 11. 
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by:
Atul Gawande
4.49 avg rating — 210,916 ratings 11. 
13. 
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
by:
Jennifer Senior
3.89 avg rating — 12,499 ratings 13. 
The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands
by:
Jules Pretty
3.14 avg rating — 28 ratings 15. 
Doer's Dilemma - Why Achievers Suffer And What To Do About It
by:
Tom E. Jones
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 
16. 
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by:
Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings 18. 
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
by:
Christian Rudder
3.73 avg rating — 12,379 ratings 18. 
Commit To Get Fit: Find the Secret to Your Own True and Everlasting Weight Loss
by:
Laura Dion-Jones
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 20. 
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
by:
Marilyn Johnson
3.64 avg rating — 2,115 ratings 21. 
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by:
Beth Macy
3.86 avg rating — 2,918 ratings 22. 
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
by:
Kevin Birmingham
4.33 avg rating — 1,286 ratings 
24. 
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
by:
Walter Kirn
3.25 avg rating — 4,810 ratings 
28. 
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by:
Hampton Sides
4.29 avg rating — 24,759 ratings 29. 
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
by:
Helen Thorpe
3.83 avg rating — 2,306 ratings