Best Adult Non-Fiction Books of 2015
2. 
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
by:
Jenny Lawson
3.89 avg rating — 171,417 ratings 3. 
It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History
by:
Jennifer Wright
3.71 avg rating — 6,901 ratings 
6. 
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating — 57,730 ratings 7. 
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by:
Ashlee Vance
4.13 avg rating — 434,846 ratings 
9. 
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
by:
Zac Bissonnette
3.91 avg rating — 2,750 ratings 
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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
by:
John Hargrove
4.20 avg rating — 7,339 ratings 16. 
Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
by:
Paul Strathern
3.92 avg rating — 818 ratings 17. 
Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
by:
David S. Roh
4.03 avg rating — 78 ratings 18. 
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
by:
Michael Dirda
3.63 avg rating — 1,291 ratings 
21. 
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
by:
Greg King
3.73 avg rating — 554 ratings 
24. 
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
by:
Marc Lewis
4.10 avg rating — 2,280 ratings 25. 
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
by:
Paul Fischer
4.21 avg rating — 6,178 ratings 
27. 
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
by:
Nick Offerman
3.77 avg rating — 11,164 ratings 
28. 
Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals
by:
Dinty W. Moore
3.59 avg rating — 281 ratings 28. 
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by:
Bill Browder
4.44 avg rating — 104,274 ratings 28. 
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
by:
Adam Makos
4.51 avg rating — 6,151 ratings 28. 
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
by:
Yeonmi Park
4.49 avg rating — 99,413 ratings 33. 
Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
by:
David Baldwin
3.50 avg rating — 113 ratings 33. 
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
by:
Brené Brown
4.25 avg rating — 87,276 ratings 
33. 
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
by:
Robert Kurson
4.04 avg rating — 11,541 ratings 33. 
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy 4.26 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
39. 
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
by:
Jacqueline Dinan
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 
39. 
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
by:
Susan Casey
4.04 avg rating — 3,303 ratings 39. 
The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
by:
Galawdewos
4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings 44. 
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
by:
J.K. Rowling
4.09 avg rating — 28,658 ratings 44. 
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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
by:
Raghu Karnad
3.89 avg rating — 556 ratings 47. 
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
by:
Wayne A. Wiegand
3.76 avg rating — 307 ratings 
49. 
Effortless Healing: 9 Simple Ways to Sidestep Illness, Shed Excess Weight, and Help Your Body Fix Itself
by:
Joseph Mercola
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,238 ratings 49. 
Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism
by:
David S. Cohen
4.11 avg rating — 92 ratings 51. 
Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought
by:
Susan Bordo
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 
56. 
Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture
by:
Kumarini Silva
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 57. 
Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant's Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West
by:
Suzanne Ma
3.82 avg rating — 84 ratings 57. 
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva 3.97 avg rating — 5,051 ratings
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The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
by:
Eric J. Topol
3.76 avg rating — 1,443 ratings 60. 
Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive 3.64 avg rating — 727 ratings
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The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
by:
Steve Osborne
3.79 avg rating — 2,699 ratings 64. 
How to Build Chicken Coops: Everything You Need to Know
by:
Samantha Johnson
3.92 avg rating — 73 ratings 65. 
Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
66. 
Xanti Schawinsky: Head Drawings and Faces of War
by:
Juliet Koss
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 67. 
Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures
by:
Susan Ronald
3.31 avg rating — 405 ratings 68. 
72. 
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
by:
Jessica Hopper
4.06 avg rating — 2,334 ratings 
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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
by:
Marc Peyser
3.90 avg rating — 2,335 ratings 
