KIB Non-Fiction Book Cloud

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Knowledge is Beautiful Non-Fiction Reading list based on Guardian, Time Literary Supplement, NYTimes.com, AskMetafilter.com, Pulitzer.org, ModernLibrary.com, NationalReview, Time, GoodReads.com
1
Mere Christianity
by C. S. Lewis
30,205 members
248 reviews
4.2
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,932 members
304 reviews
½ 3.7
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3
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
27,885 members
305 reviews
3.8
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4
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,735 members
407 reviews
4.1
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5
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,903 members
518 reviews
4.1
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6
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
21,209 members
551 reviews
4.2
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7
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
20,697 members
308 reviews
3.8
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The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
18,140 members
163 reviews
½ 3.5
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9
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau
16,220 members
205 reviews
3.8
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10
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
13,161 members
180 reviews
3.9
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11
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
11,932 members
135 reviews
4.2
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12
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
11,767 members
231 reviews
½ 3.7
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13
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
11,416 members
144 reviews
½ 4.3
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14
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard Feynman
11,002 members
200 reviews
4.2
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15
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
9,041 members
95 reviews
4
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16
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
7,701 members
110 reviews
4
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17
Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
7,595 members
47 reviews
3.9
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18
The Guns of August
by Barbara Tuchman
7,591 members
144 reviews
½ 4.3
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19
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Revised Edition
by Barack Obama
7,107 members
126 reviews
4
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20
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
6,225 members
73 reviews
4.2
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21
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
5,888 members
73 reviews
4
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22
The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
5,863 members
44 reviews
3.9
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23
Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
5,816 members
111 reviews
3.9
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24
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays
by Michel de Montaigne
5,598 members
57 reviews
½ 4.3
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25
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
4,565 members
45 reviews
4.2
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26
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
4,079 members
59 reviews
½ 4.5
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27
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
3,298 members
50 reviews
3.8
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28
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
by Saint Augustine
2,764 members
24 reviews
3.9
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29
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
2,266 members
32 reviews
4.1
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30
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by John Maynard Keynes
1,994 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
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31
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia
by Rebecca West
1,936 members
28 reviews
4.1
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32
The Civil War: A Narrative
by Shelby Foote
1,661 members
14 reviews
½ 4.6
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33
The Second World War
by John Keegan
1,500 members
12 reviews
3.9
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34
The Open Society and Its Enemies
by Karl Popper
1,091 members
15 reviews
½ 4.4
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35
The Constitution of Liberty
by F. A. Hayek
1,086 members
10 reviews
½ 4.3
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36
The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play in Two Acts
by Frances Goodrich
982 members
15 reviews
4
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38
Economy and Society [complete]
by Max Weber
664 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
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39
The Liberal Imagination
by Lionel Trilling
591 members
5 reviews
3.8
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40
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
by Robert Coles
163 members
½ 4.5
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41
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. 2-volume set
by Gunnar Myrdal
145 members
2 reviews
4
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