| #2 |  The Birth of the Pill
| 4 | 8 reads | |
| #3 |  The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
| 3.93 | 86 reads | |
| #4 |  We Were the Lucky Ones
| 4.21 | 37 reads | |
| #5 |  The Mental Floss History of the United States The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America
| 4.5 | 3 reads | |
| #6 |  The Mental Floss History of the World The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits
| 3.86 | 9 reads | |
| #7 |  Lies My Teacher Told Me
| 4.06 | 90 reads | |
| #8 |  The Poison Squad
| 3.82 | 13 reads | |
| #9 |  The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
| 3.97 | 85 reads | |
| #10 |  Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
| 4.44 | 125 reads | |
| #11 |  Ghost on the Throne
| 4.57 | 7 reads | |
| #12 |  The Whole Picture
| 5 | 3 reads | |
| #13 |  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
| 4.55 | 186 reads |