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Nonfiction

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#2
The Mind's Eye
The Mind's Eye
  • Oliver Sacks
420 reads
#3
Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.62102 reads
#4
Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor
  • Marcus Luttrell
  • Patrick Robinson
4.1441 reads
#5
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
  • Maryanne Wolf
3.2824 reads
#6
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
  • Charles Petzold
4.2588 reads
#7
JavaScript: The Good Parts
JavaScript: The Good Parts
  • Douglas Crockford
4.1873 reads
#8
Eloquent JavaScript
Eloquent JavaScript
  • Marijn Haverbeke
3.9533 reads
#9
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
  • Nicholas C. Zakas
3.54 reads
#10
The Rails 4 Way
The Rails 4 Way
  • Obie Fernandez
  • Kevin Faustino
21 read
#11
Cover 2

Automate this

Automate this : how algorithms came to rule our world
  • Christopher Steiner
3.6711 reads
#12
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
  • Oliver Sacks
3.770 reads
#13
Awakenings
Awakenings
  • Oliver Sacks
4.2423 reads
#14
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
  • Bill Bryson
3.99396 reads
#15
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Bill Bryson
4.24587 reads
#16
Notes from a Small Island
Notes from a Small Island
  • Bill Bryson
3.82142 reads
#17
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
  • Bill Bryson
3.74102 reads
#18
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
  • Bill Bryson
3.56101 reads
#19
Cover 3

A Guinea Pig's History of Biology

A Guinea Pig's History of Biology
  • Jim Endersby
32 reads
#20
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
  • Barack Obama
3.9697 reads
#21
A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
  • Howard Zinn
  • Kathy Emery
  • Ellen Gordon Reeves
4.23232 reads
#22
Walden
Walden
  • Henry David Thoreau
3.65267 reads
#23
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
  • Lynne Truss
3.82146 reads
#24
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time
  • Stephen Hawking
4.19447 reads
#25
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • Oliver Sacks
3.9300 reads
#26
In A Sunburned Country
In A Sunburned Country
  • Bill Bryson
4159 reads
#27
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Mountains Beyond Mountains
  • Tracy Kidder
3.9861 reads
#28
Bringing Down the House
Bringing Down the House
  • Ben Mezrich
3.8459 reads
#29
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
  • Bill Bryson
3.59109 reads
#30
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
  • Joseph J. Ellis
3.8844 reads
#31
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Kai Bird
  • Martin J. Sherwin
4.16108 reads
#32
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma
  • Jeremy Bernstein
01 read
#33
Influence
Influence
  • Robert B. Cialdini
4.1171 reads
#34
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
  • Jonathan Haidt
4.359 reads
#35
The Illustrated a Brief History of Time/ The Universe in a Nutshell
The Illustrated a Brief History of Time/ The Universe in a Nutshell
  • Stephen Hawking
4.4315 reads
#36
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
  • Steven Weinberg
3.8913 reads
#37
Warped Passages
Warped Passages
  • Lisa Randall
3.255 reads
#38
The Cosmic Landscape
The Cosmic Landscape
  • Leonard Susskind
46 reads
#39
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.0435 reads
#40
The Histories
The Histories
  • Herodotus
  • Aubrey de Sélincourt (Translator)
4.0544 reads
#41
There are No Children Here
There are No Children Here
  • Alex Kotlowitz
4.2511 reads
#42
Robert Oppenheimer: His Life and Mind
Robert Oppenheimer: His Life and Mind
  • Ray Monk
31 read
#43
The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades
The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades
  • Piers Paul Read
32 reads
#44
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
  • Dava Sobel
4.06133 reads
#45
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • Richard Rhodes
4.5157 reads
#46
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
  • Bill Wasik
  • Monica Murphy
3.5427 reads
#47
Stuff Matters
Stuff Matters
  • Mark Miodownik
3.9655 reads
#48
Cover 7

Spacesuit

Spacesuit
  • Nicholas de Monchaux
4.53 reads
#49
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
  • W. Bernard Carlson
3.412 reads
#50
Cover 5

Seizing the Enigma

Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939–1943
  • David Kahn
00 reads
#51
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
  • Jack Weatherford
4.198 reads
#52
A new kind of science
A new kind of science
  • Stephen Wolfram
3.179 reads
#53
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  • David Allen
3.89386 reads
#54
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • Stephen R. Covey
3.82387 reads
#55
Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience
Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Dale Purves
  • Roberto Cabeza
  • Kevin S. LaBar
  • Michael L. Platt
  • Marty Woldorff
00 reads
#56
Stumbling on Happiness
Stumbling on Happiness
  • Daniel Todd Gilbert
3.6276 reads
#57
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
  • Ashlee Vance
4.1365 reads
#58
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
  • Val McDermid
3.7623 reads
#59
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
  • David Simon
  • Edward Burns
4.3614 reads
#60
Song Machine Inside the Hit Factory
Song Machine Inside the Hit Factory
  • John Seabrook
3.7621 reads
#61
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
  • Ben R. Rich
  • Leo Janos
4.4777 reads
#62
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
  • Mary Roach
3.7769 reads
#63
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
  • Bill Bryson
3.95157 reads
#64
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Daniel Kahneman
4.1661 reads
#65
A Technique for Producing Ideas
A Technique for Producing Ideas
  • James Webb Young
  • Robbie McCallum
4.149 reads
#66
Cover 7

Fly Me to the Moon

Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel
  • Edward Belbruno
31 read
#67
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
  • Bill Bryson
3.7994 reads
#68
No Easy Day
No Easy Day
  • Mark Owen
  • Kevin Maurer
  • Sara Crimi (Translator)
  • Laura Tasso (Translator)
3.8835 reads
#69
Brilliant
Brilliant
  • Jane Brox
00 reads
#70
Venomous
Venomous
  • Christie Wilcox
3.755 reads
#71
Flavor
Flavor
  • Bob Holmes
00 reads
#72
Starting Strength
Starting Strength
  • Mark Rippetoe
  • Lon Kilgore
4.3150 reads
#73
Backstabbing for Beginners: A Crash Course in International Diplomacy
Backstabbing for Beginners: A Crash Course in International Diplomacy
  • Michael Soussan
00 reads
#74
Paper: Paging Through History
Paper: Paging Through History
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.2511 reads
#75
Dying of Whiteness
Dying of Whiteness
  • Jonathan M. Metzl
3.9318 reads
#76
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
  • Isabel Wilkerson
4.44244 reads