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Non-fiction
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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
by Mark O'Connell
148 members
6 reviews
3.9
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
23,580 members
351 reviews
4
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
14,964 members
136 reviews
½ 4.3
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
14,997 members
266 reviews
4.1
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
8,850 members
360 reviews
4.1
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Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
17,398 members
97 reviews
3.9
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari
7,161 members
171 reviews
3.9
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If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
6,679 members
102 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
10,782 members
286 reviews
½ 4.5
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
by Haruki Murakami
2,888 members
65 reviews
3.8
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder
4,995 members
170 reviews
4.2
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Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
9,392 members
106 reviews
4.2
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Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by John Douglas
3,636 members
43 reviews
3.8
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
4,589 members
139 reviews
4.1
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
by Adam Higginbotham
2,757 members
95 reviews
½ 4.3
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Them: Adventures with Extremists
by Jon Ronson
1,912 members
54 reviews
3.8
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker
3,931 members
132 reviews
4.2
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Maps and Legends
by Michael Chabon
1,755 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
4,571 members
45 reviews
4.2
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31 Songs
by Nick Hornby
2,451 members
38 reviews
½ 3.4
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
21,230 members
551 reviews
4.2
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
20,232 members
485 reviews
3.9
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
12,948 members
240 reviews
½ 4.3
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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
18,407 members
382 reviews
3.9
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Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
18,279 members
450 reviews
3.9
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
19,499 members
369 reviews
4.2
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The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
18,157 members
163 reviews
½ 3.5
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28
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,879 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
8,422 members
237 reviews
4.1
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
20,701 members
308 reviews
3.8
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
7,724 members
119 reviews
4
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No Logo
by Naomi Klein
7,097 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
6,139 members
140 reviews
4.2
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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,845 members
339 reviews
4.2
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Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
12,234 members
281 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
4,615 members
184 reviews
4.1
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
6,254 members
140 reviews
4.2
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Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
7,147 members
130 reviews
4.1
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by Michelle McNamara
4,484 members
186 reviews
4
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42
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
by David Foster Wallace
5,352 members
84 reviews
4.1
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace
4,870 members
85 reviews
4.1
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Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
8,750 members
152 reviews
4
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A History of Western Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
7,630 members
66 reviews
4.1
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
4,669 members
74 reviews
½ 3.7
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Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman
8,364 members
155 reviews
½ 4.5
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48
My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell
5,951 members
178 reviews
4.2
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar
5,241 members
66 reviews
3.8
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How to Be a Woman
by Caitlin Moran
3,271 members
201 reviews
3.8
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51
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
4,917 members
163 reviews
4
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52
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by Mark Manson
8,567 members
209 reviews
½ 3.6
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
3,851 members
166 reviews
½ 3.5
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A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut
5,326 members
93 reviews
3.9
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
3,836 members
185 reviews
3.9
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Modern Romance: An Investigation
by Aziz Ansari
2,410 members
133 reviews
½ 3.7
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe
3,741 members
147 reviews
½ 4.4
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On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
6,145 members
43 reviews
3.9
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
by Jon Ronson
2,250 members
107 reviews
3.8
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling
4,150 members
134 reviews
½ 4.3
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by Hannah Arendt
5,005 members
66 reviews
4.2
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Men Explain Things to Me {updated edition}
by Rebecca Solnit
2,428 members
84 reviews
3.9
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
16,690 members
343 reviews
3.8
64
Who Moved My Cheese?
by Spencer Johnson
10,531 members
175 reviews
½ 3.3
65
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
8,901 members
395 reviews
½ 3.7
67
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
by Michael Wolff
3,025 members
172 reviews
½ 3.4
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1 member
1 review
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt
27,225 members
477 reviews
3.8
70
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
25,267 members
759 reviews
4
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
25,635 members
431 reviews
4.2
72
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,757 members
407 reviews
4.1
73
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,928 members
518 reviews
4.1
74
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
22,939 members
394 reviews
½ 3.7
75
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,976 members
777 reviews
4.2
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
23,701 members
345 reviews
3.8
77
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
18,450 members
502 reviews
4
78
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
12,358 members
477 reviews
4.1
79
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
15,769 members
344 reviews
4.2
81
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
13,167 members
180 reviews
3.9
82
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
15,033 members
368 reviews
4.2
83
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
11,771 members
231 reviews
½ 3.7
84
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
13,504 members
527 reviews
4
85
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
by Stephen Hawking
16,296 members
146 reviews
3.9
86
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
14,049 members
290 reviews
½ 3.6
87
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
13,044 members
237 reviews
3.9
88
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
27,921 members
305 reviews
3.8
89
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,964 members
304 reviews
½ 3.7
90
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
23,132 members
847 reviews
4.2
91
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk
21,923 members
206 reviews
4.1
92
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
17,075 members
313 reviews
3.9
93
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
22,407 members
385 reviews
4
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
9,793 members
245 reviews
3.9
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A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
17,266 members
175 reviews
4.2
96
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
23,974 members
888 reviews
½ 3.5
97
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson
13,813 members
518 reviews
½ 3.7
98
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared M. Diamond
13,437 members
190 reviews
3.9
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The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
18,569 members
307 reviews
4.1
100
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain
11,514 members
291 reviews
3.9