Nonfiction Books More People Should Read
101. 
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
by:
James Hannam
4.12 avg rating — 1,059 ratings 
101. 
Killer Angel: A Short Biography of Planned Parenthood's Founder, Margaret Sanger
by:
George Grant
4.29 avg rating — 273 ratings 106. 
Death on Mars: The Discovery of a Planetary Nuclear Massacre
by:
John Brandenburg
3.91 avg rating — 81 ratings 
106. 
Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London
by:
Olivia Williams
3.77 avg rating — 330 ratings 106. 
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
by:
Lucy Jones
3.91 avg rating — 568 ratings 
111. 
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by:
Nick Lane
4.25 avg rating — 3,635 ratings 
111. 
Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature
by:
Susan E. Davis
4.29 avg rating — 220 ratings 111. 
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by:
Atul Gawande
4.49 avg rating — 210,916 ratings 
117. 
The Gutenberg Revolution: How Printing Changed The Course of History
by:
John Man
3.69 avg rating — 391 ratings 
117. 
Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
by:
Stacy Pershall
3.91 avg rating — 3,884 ratings 
117. 
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
by:
James C. Whorton
4.04 avg rating — 294 ratings 117. 
The Whole Forest for a Backyard: A Gunflint Trail Wilderness Memoir 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
117. 
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
by:
Dinesh D'Souza
4.22 avg rating — 2,068 ratings 117. 
Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918
by:
David Johnson
3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings 125. 
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
by:
Lars Brownworth
4.12 avg rating — 5,370 ratings 125. 
Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution
by:
Ray Comfort
3.43 avg rating — 54 ratings 125. 
We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story
by:
Josh Sundquist
3.77 avg rating — 12,633 ratings 
125. 
Watching the English : The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
by:
Kate Fox
3.91 avg rating — 11,103 ratings 125. 
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
by:
Austin Kleon
4.10 avg rating — 58,501 ratings 125. 
132. 
A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession
by:
Lucy Worsley
3.82 avg rating — 4,854 ratings 
132. 
Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime Politics for a Better America
by:
David Clarke Jr.
4.40 avg rating — 643 ratings 138. 
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
by:
Steven Solomon
3.87 avg rating — 651 ratings 
138. 
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs
by:
Paul Koudounaris
4.54 avg rating — 826 ratings 138. 
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When The World Overwhelms Them
by:
Elaine N. Aron
3.95 avg rating — 4,834 ratings 138. 
The Age of Consent : The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture
by:
Robert H. Knight
3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings 143. 
Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-Site Tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages
by:
T. Douglas Price
4.23 avg rating — 108 ratings 143. 
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
by:
Marlene Zuk
3.68 avg rating — 1,539 ratings 143. 
The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
by:
Roger Kimball
3.66 avg rating — 186 ratings 
146. 
Race-Baiting In America: How the Left Use Race as a Means to Keep Power, Drive the Narrative, & Tear This Country Apart
by:
D. Lee
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 148. 
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
by:
Tom Mueller
3.77 avg rating — 4,071 ratings 148. 
Abortion: What The Founding Fathers Thought About It
by:
Duane L. Ostler
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 150. 
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by:
David Quammen
4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings 
150. 
Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America
by:
Mary Grabar
3.93 avg rating — 554 ratings 153. 
The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance 4.30 avg rating — 152 ratings
153. 
The Whole Way to Natural Detoxification: Clearing Your Body of Toxins
by:
J. Krohn
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings 153. 
Tipping Points: How to Topple the Left's House of Cards
by:
Liz Wheeler
4.14 avg rating — 152 ratings 
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156. 
Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers
by:
Randy Alcorn
4.40 avg rating — 699 ratings 159. 
159. 
The E.I. Syndrome: An Rx for Environmental Illness
by:
Sherry A. Rogers
4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings 159. 
Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
by:
Alex Berenson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,015 ratings 162. 
Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization
by:
Ian Wilson
3.74 avg rating — 125 ratings 162. 
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
by:
Mark Kurlansky
3.92 avg rating — 24,362 ratings 164. 
Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark
by:
Alexandra Witze
3.85 avg rating — 824 ratings 164. 
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
by:
Temple Grandin
4.15 avg rating — 9,826 ratings 166. 
The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All
by:
Elinor Levy
3.80 avg rating — 102 ratings 
168. 
Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin
by:
Samuel T. Turvey
4.10 avg rating — 107 ratings 168. 
How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
by:
Gregory Berns
3.97 avg rating — 7,530 ratings 170. 
Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins
by:
Elaine Morgan
4.13 avg rating — 245 ratings 
171. 
The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life
by:
Jeffrey S. Bland
4.20 avg rating — 970 ratings 173. 
In Search of the Immortals: Discovering the World's Mummy Cultures
by:
Howard Reid
3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings 173. 
Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
by:
Jessie Inchauspé
4.41 avg rating — 43,921 ratings 175. 
Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating
by:
Jeffrey M. Smith
4.18 avg rating — 570 ratings 176. 
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
by:
Heather Pringle
4.10 avg rating — 866 ratings 176. 
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating — 84,784 ratings 
179. 
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
by:
Casey Means
4.11 avg rating — 20,199 ratings 
181. 
My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
by:
Caleb Carr
4.23 avg rating — 2,740 ratings 183. 
Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future
by:
Robert M. Schoch
4.02 avg rating — 450 ratings 183. 
Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments
by:
Gary Taubes
4.21 avg rating — 476 ratings 
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186. 
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
by:
Jerry Thompson
4.18 avg rating — 740 ratings 
188. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 426,054 ratings 190. 
The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book
by:
Peter Forbes
3.84 avg rating — 220 ratings 191. 
Everything That Follows Is Based On Recent Real Life Experience: Professional Survival Solutions 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings
192. 
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
by:
Rowan Jacobsen
4.31 avg rating — 734 ratings 193. 
Survivors; the Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind
by:
Richard Fortey
3.87 avg rating — 1,162 ratings 194. 
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
195. 
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
by:
Richard Manning
3.98 avg rating — 440 ratings 
197. 
Caverns, Cauldrons, and Concealed Creatures: A Study of Subterranean Mysteries in History, Folklore, and Myth
by:
Wm. Michael Mott
3.99 avg rating — 88 ratings 198. 
Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 199. 
Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
by:
Dennis McCarthy
4.13 avg rating — 166 ratings 200. 
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by:
Dan Koeppel
3.81 avg rating — 5,281 ratings