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
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Mere Christianity
by C. S. Lewis
24,299 members
208 reviews
½ 4.3
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
23,601 members
356 reviews
4.1
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
22,214 members
439 reviews
4.1
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
22,006 members
239 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
21,264 members
230 reviews
3.8
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
by Saint Augustine
20,710 members
160 reviews
3.9
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
17,932 members
270 reviews
3.8
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On Writing
by Stephen King
17,249 members
497 reviews
4.2
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The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
13,880 members
134 reviews
½ 3.4
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
13,164 members
169 reviews
3.8
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
12,173 members
170 reviews
3.9
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
10,494 members
201 reviews
½ 3.7
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13
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
10,271 members
114 reviews
½ 4.3
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Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard Feynman
9,368 members
165 reviews
4.2
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15
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
9,099 members
112 reviews
½ 4.3
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
9,043 members
204 reviews
3.9
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17
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
7,607 members
83 reviews
4
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
6,414 members
92 reviews
4
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The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
6,125 members
113 reviews
½ 4.3
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Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
6,077 members
42 reviews
3.9
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Out of Africa
by Karen Blixen
4,937 members
98 reviews
3.9
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
4,903 members
33 reviews
3.9
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
4,860 members
62 reviews
4
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
4,789 members
63 reviews
4.2
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The Complete Essays
by Michel de Montaigne
4,454 members
45 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
3,230 members
50 reviews
½ 4.5
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
3,204 members
31 reviews
4.2
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
2,853 members
42 reviews
3.8
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
1,969 members
29 reviews
4.2
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by John Maynard Keynes
1,661 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia
by Rebecca West
1,578 members
21 reviews
4.1
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The Civil War: A Narrative
by Shelby Foote
1,433 members
14 reviews
½ 4.6
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The Second World War
by John Keegan
1,299 members
11 reviews
4
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The Constitution of Liberty
by F. A. Hayek
906 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
by Karl Popper
826 members
13 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play in Two Acts
by Frances Goodrich
632 members
12 reviews
4.1
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Economy and Society [complete]
by Max Weber
538 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Liberal Imagination
by Lionel Trilling
487 members
5 reviews
3.8
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Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
by Robert Coles
139 members
½ 4.6
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
by Gunnar Myrdal
131 members
2 reviews
3.8
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