Best Non-Fiction (non biography)

Share your picks for the best non-fiction books you've read - not including biographies.

1 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that
Changed America
by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 137,863 ratings
vote for this book score: 45,241, and 457 people voted

2 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of

Everything
by Steven D. Levitt
3.81 avg rating — 236,978 ratings
vote for this book score: 36,176, and 369 people voted

3 In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
3.97 avg rating — 209,355 ratings
vote for this book score: 35,058, and 357 people voted

4 A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
4.16 avg rating — 66,234 ratings
vote for this book score: 25,299, and 258 people voted

5 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond
3.97 avg rating — 74,790 ratings
vote for this book score: 24,647, and 252 people voted

6 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan
4.17 avg rating — 74,366 ratings
vote for this book score: 22,762, and 232 people voted

7 Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer
3.83 avg rating — 272,311 ratings
vote for this book score: 20,302, and 209 people voted

8 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
3.75 avg rating — 191,188 ratings
vote for this book score: 19,677, and 204 people voted
9 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
3.68 avg rating — 137,280 ratings
vote for this book score: 19,577, and 201 people voted

10 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer
3.96 avg rating — 164,553 ratings
vote for this book score: 18,045, and 189 people voted

11 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach
4.05 avg rating — 47,952 ratings
vote for this book score: 17,991, and 184 people voted

12 Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell
4.03 avg rating — 112,973 ratings
vote for this book score: 17,877, and 186 people voted

13 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt
3.81 avg rating — 76,120 ratings
vote for this book score: 17,815, and 184 people voted

14 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson
4.03 avg rating — 91,778 ratings
vote for this book score: 17,247, and 180 people voted

15 Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell
3.78 avg rating — 122,130 ratings
vote for this book score: 16,052, and 168 people voted

16 Green Illusions
by Ozzie Zehner (Goodreads Author)
4.74 avg rating — 243 ratings
vote for this book score: 14,599, and 152 people voted

17 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer
3.93 avg rating — 60,063 ratings
vote for this book score: 14,060, and 145 people voted

18 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich
3.54 avg rating — 116,785 ratings
vote for this book score: 13,221, and 138 people voted
19 The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 58,965 ratings
vote for this book score: 12,945, and 133 people voted

20 On Writing
by Stephen King
4.22 avg rating — 55,631 ratings
vote for this book score: 11,574, and 118 people voted

21 Night
by Elie Wiesel
4.24 avg rating — 270,561 ratings
vote for this book score: 10,826, and 114 people voted

22 Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at
a Time
by Greg Mortenson (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 140,359 ratings
vote for this book score: 10,669, and 109 people voted

23 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand
4.46 avg rating — 102,990 ratings
vote for this book score: 10,570, and 109 people voted

24 The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls
4.17 avg rating — 263,982 ratings
vote for this book score: 10,470, and 109 people voted

25 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

by Barbara Kingsolver
4.03 avg rating — 52,637 ratings
vote for this book score: 10,392, and 107 people voted

26 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 111,275 ratings
vote for this book score: 9,698, and 99 people voted

27 Seabiscuit: An American Legend

by Laura Hillenbrand
4.10 avg rating — 38,556 ratings
vote for this book score: 9,617, and 100 people voted
28 Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
4.31 avg rating — 46,059 ratings
vote for this book score: 9,494, and 98 people voted

29 A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking
4.02 avg rating — 54,026 ratings
vote for this book score: 9,423, and 99 people voted

30 Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

by Vincent Bugliosi
3.90 avg rating — 36,777 ratings
vote for this book score: 9,251, and 98 people voted

31 A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

by Howard Zinn
4.18 avg rating — 42,739 ratings
vote for this book score: 8,624, and 90 people voted

32 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain
3.96 avg rating — 66,174 ratings
vote for this book score: 8,610, and 89 people voted

33 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat & Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 34,568 ratings
vote for this book score: 8,080, and 85 people voted

34 The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of
the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester
3.83 avg rating — 30,837 ratings
vote for this book score: 8,043, and 86 people voted

35 Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
4.33 avg rating — 40,112 ratings
vote for this book score: 7,609, and 80 people voted

36 Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook

Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
3.95 avg rating — 21,044 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,952, and 73 people voted
37 Columbine
by Dave Cullen (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 17,490 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,906, and 75 people voted

38 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

by Nathaniel Philbrick
4.18 avg rating — 16,048 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,892, and 72 people voted

39 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

by Richard P. Feynman
4.32 avg rating — 26,236 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,833, and 71 people voted

40 The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin
3.91 avg rating — 21,230 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,782, and 73 people voted

41 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

by Michael Pollan
4.03 avg rating — 42,211 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,772, and 71 people voted

42 Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
3.87 avg rating — 11,220 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,397, and 68 people voted

43 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
3.90 avg rating — 22,246 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,161, and 66 people voted

44 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss
3.82 avg rating — 41,632 ratings
vote for this book score: 6,115, and 67 people voted

45 Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
4.34 avg rating — 20,461 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,928, and 63 people voted

46 Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan
4.07 avg rating — 144,000 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,660, and 59 people voted
47 I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years
Away
by Bill Bryson
3.86 avg rating — 23,136 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,427, and 57 people voted

48 Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
3.73 avg rating — 46,750 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,311, and 57 people voted

49 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American
Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
4.10 avg rating — 20,156 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,301, and 56 people voted

50 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing
4.30 avg rating — 14,846 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,166, and 55 people voted

51 Mere Christianity
by C.S. Lewis
4.26 avg rating — 75,654 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,098, and 54 people voted

52 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great
American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan
4.03 avg rating — 12,428 ratings
vote for this book score: 5,078, and 53 people voted

53 Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky
3.68 avg rating — 13,680 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,961, and 52 people voted

54 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our

Families : Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
4.35 avg rating — 9,031 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,768, and 50 people voted

55 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely
4.02 avg rating — 16,857 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,695, and 49 people voted
56 1776
by David McCullough
4.05 avg rating — 41,705 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,688, and 50 people voted

57 The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman
3.77 avg rating — 13,855 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,676, and 48 people voted

58 The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

by Sebastian Junger (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 32,460 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,645, and 51 people voted

59 The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by Naomi Klein
4.23 avg rating — 10,612 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,517, and 47 people voted

60 The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible
as Literally as Possible
by A.J. Jacobs
3.75 avg rating — 26,718 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,407, and 46 people voted

61 The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 24,022 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,322, and 46 people voted

62 Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the
World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall
4.31 avg rating — 34,314 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,257, and 44 people voted

63 How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie
3.96 avg rating — 56,881 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,151, and 44 people voted

64 And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
4.38 avg rating — 7,246 ratings
vote for this book score: 4,136, and 45 people voted
65 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.78 avg rating — 18,488 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,817, and 40 people voted

66 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 25,645 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,813, and 40 people voted

67 The Hot Zone

by Richard Preston
4.01 avg rating — 28,018 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,778, and 40 people voted

68 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
4.03 avg rating — 12,671 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,607, and 39 people voted

69 Sliding On The Snow Stone

by Andy Szpuk (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 46 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,600, and 36 people voted

70 The Know-it-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest

Person in the World
by A.J. Jacobs
3.77 avg rating — 14,043 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,588, and 38 people voted

71 The Communist Manifesto

by Karl Marx
3.41 avg rating — 25,580 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,486, and 37 people voted

72 A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman
4.14 avg rating — 7,844 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,427, and 38 people voted

73 The Ghost Map

by Steven Johnson
3.90 avg rating — 9,069 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,371, and 37 people voted
74 Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
4.07 avg rating — 8,222 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,348, and 36 people voted

75 All the President's Men

by Carl Bernstein
4.13 avg rating — 12,526 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,292, and 36 people voted

76 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick
4.41 avg rating — 10,030 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,285, and 33 people voted

77 Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 10,989 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,283, and 35 people voted

78 The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

by Bill Bryson
3.98 avg rating — 12,619 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,246, and 35 people voted

79 Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

by David Simon
4.36 avg rating — 4,906 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,234, and 34 people voted

80 There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The
Other America
by Alex Kotlowitz
4.22 avg rating — 5,125 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,171, and 33 people voted

81 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial

Africa
by Adam Hochschild
4.14 avg rating — 8,049 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,092, and 33 people voted

82 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
4.11 avg rating — 17,477 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,037, and 33 people voted
83 Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
3.50 avg rating — 11,574 ratings
vote for this book score: 3,007, and 32 people voted

84 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama
3.81 avg rating — 44,589 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,972, and 31 people voted

85 The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
3.64 avg rating — 61,351 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,933, and 32 people voted

86 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

by Steven Pinker
4.06 avg rating — 5,390 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,823, and 30 people voted

87 He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding
Guys
by Greg Behrendt
3.56 avg rating — 25,923 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,793, and 29 people voted

88 The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

by Michael Pollan
4.03 avg rating — 19,587 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,790, and 31 people voted

89 Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest
Scientific Problem of his Time
by Dava Sobel
3.89 avg rating — 13,802 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,770, and 30 people voted

90 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show

Business
by Neil Postman
4.09 avg rating — 4,352 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,766, and 29 people voted

91 Reading Lolita in Tehran

by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 56,584 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,750, and 31 people voted
92 The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
4.31 avg rating — 4,338 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,727, and 29 people voted

93 The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas L. Friedman
3.58 avg rating — 37,068 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,724, and 29 people voted

94 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach
3.79 avg rating — 16,858 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,710, and 29 people voted

95 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

by David Foster Wallace
4.27 avg rating — 11,270 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,707, and 28 people voted

96 The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman
4.22 avg rating — 9,212 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,695, and 30 people voted

97 Shadow Divers
by Robert Kurson
4.24 avg rating — 6,547 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,593, and 27 people voted

98 Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

by James Bradley
4.07 avg rating — 4,866 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,571, and 27 people voted

99 The Monster of Florence

by Douglas Preston
3.64 avg rating — 10,971 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,553, and 28 people voted

100 The Rape of Nanking

by Iris Chang
4.03 avg rating — 6,257 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,536, and 28 people voted

101 In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson
4.00 avg rating — 29,815 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,224, and 26 people voted
102 Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.30 avg rating — 13,040 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,202, and 24 people voted

103 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

by Carl Sagan
4.32 avg rating — 15,003 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,200, and 24 people voted

104 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama
3.67 avg rating — 45,084 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,171, and 23 people voted

105 Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

by Nathaniel Philbrick
3.82 avg rating — 10,879 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,128, and 23 people voted

106 What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank
3.80 avg rating — 5,091 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,059, and 22 people voted

107 The Six Wives of Henry VIII

by Alison Weir
4.11 avg rating — 16,060 ratings
vote for this book score: 2,035, and 22 people voted

108 The Invention of Religion

by Alexander Drake
4.52 avg rating — 102 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,991, and 20 people voted

109 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.40 avg rating — 24,234 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,986, and 23 people voted

110 Assassination Vacation

by Sarah Vowell
4.00 avg rating — 19,682 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,905, and 20 people voted

111 The Bookseller of Kabul

by Åsne Seierstad
3.69 avg rating — 15,790 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,865, and 20 people voted
112 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
4.20 avg rating — 25,140 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,864, and 20 people voted

113 The Elements of Style

by William Strunk
4.15 avg rating — 25,078 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,789, and 20 people voted

114 SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers
Should Buy Life Insurance
by Steven D. Levitt
3.84 avg rating — 30,267 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,750, and 19 people voted

115 Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
4.22 avg rating — 5,245 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,746, and 18 people voted

116 This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

by Daniel J. Levitin
3.79 avg rating — 10,071 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,695, and 18 people voted

117 The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe
4.20 avg rating — 12,671 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,669, and 18 people voted

118 A Natural History of the Senses

by Diane Ackerman
4.16 avg rating — 3,364 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,654, and 18 people voted

119 The Mismeasure of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould
4.06 avg rating — 2,904 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,647, and 18 people voted

120 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by John M. Barry
3.90 avg rating — 6,218 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,631, and 18 people voted
121 Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
4.01 avg rating — 6,138 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,620, and 17 people voted

122 John Adams

by David McCullough
4.23 avg rating — 53,182 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,611, and 18 people voted

123 Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

by Steve Almond
3.78 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,607, and 17 people voted

124 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 42,915 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,603, and 17 people voted

125 Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive
SCRABBLE Players
by Stefan Fatsis
3.80 avg rating — 2,795 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,573, and 17 people voted

126 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann
3.82 avg rating — 17,383 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,507, and 16 people voted

127 How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker
3.99 avg rating — 5,316 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,462, and 16 people voted

128 The Dangerous Book for Boys

by Conn Iggulden
4.02 avg rating — 2,719 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,446, and 16 people voted

129 Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

by Carl Sagan
4.17 avg rating — 4,718 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,439, and 16 people voted
130 No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
by Naomi Klein
3.84 avg rating — 9,365 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,408, and 15 people voted

131 Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to
Hitler's Eagle's Nest
by Stephen E. Ambrose
4.40 avg rating — 22,123 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,395, and 15 people voted

132 Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell
4.14 avg rating — 8,497 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,372, and 15 people voted

133 Bad Science

by Ben Goldacre
4.11 avg rating — 6,542 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,369, and 14 people voted

134 The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
3.76 avg rating — 8,441 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,328, and 14 people voted

135 Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey
4.25 avg rating — 11,530 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,326, and 14 people voted

136 Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

by Dava Sobel
3.65 avg rating — 9,365 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,304, and 15 people voted

136 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
4.17 avg rating — 21,537 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,304, and 14 people voted

138 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the
Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
4.05 avg rating — 21,085 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,302, and 14 people voted
139 How the Irish Saved Civilization
by Thomas Cahill
3.78 avg rating — 11,252 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,300, and 15 people voted

140 84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff
4.16 avg rating — 11,265 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,296, and 14 people voted

141 An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably
Didn't
by Judy Jones
3.96 avg rating — 923 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,294, and 14 people voted

142 The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

by Lawrence Wright
4.33 avg rating — 5,093 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,249, and 13 people voted

143 The Emperor of All Maladies

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.24 avg rating — 12,737 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,246, and 13 people voted

144 Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

by James M. McPherson
4.35 avg rating — 6,893 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,244, and 13 people voted

145 Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof
4.35 avg rating — 13,058 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,232, and 12 people voted

146 Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

by Simon Winchester
3.81 avg rating — 6,320 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,193, and 14 people voted

147 At Home: A Short History of Private Life

by Bill Bryson
3.92 avg rating — 20,634 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,180, and 13 people voted
148 The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
by David Simon
4.37 avg rating — 1,924 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,170, and 12 people voted

149 The Demon in the Freezer

by Richard Preston
4.03 avg rating — 3,640 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,166, and 13 people voted

150 Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer
4.14 avg rating — 19,093 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,149, and 12 people voted

151 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault
4.18 avg rating — 7,988 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,134, and 14 people voted

152 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis
4.18 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,131, and 12 people voted

153 Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

by Ruth Reichl
3.88 avg rating — 14,676 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,089, and 12 people voted

154 The Blind Watchmaker

by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 9,501 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,083, and 12 people voted

155 A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf
3.99 avg rating — 26,380 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,076, and 12 people voted

156 The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And
the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health
by T. Colin Campbell
4.20 avg rating — 6,235 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,067, and 11 people voted
157 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
3.90 avg rating — 27,280 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,064, and 12 people voted

158 The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

by Caroline Alexander
4.29 avg rating — 3,739 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,040, and 11 people voted

159 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by Chip Heath
3.99 avg rating — 11,845 ratings
vote for this book score: 1,036, and 11 people voted

160 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
by Stephen R. Covey
3.86 avg rating — 72,406 ratings
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