Nonfiction

Updated 6 months ago
503 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky	3.61	100 reads
#3	High Tide in Tucson Barbara Kingsolver	4.3	10 reads
#4	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein	4.22	74 reads
#5	Zeitoun Dave Eggers	3.92	64 reads
#6	Where the Girls Are Susan J. Douglas	3	1 read
#7	The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa Josh Swiller	5	1 read
#8	Small Wonder Barbara Kingsolver	3.6	8 reads
#9	No Logo Naomi Klein	3.77	57 reads
#10	The New Kings of Nonfiction Mark Bowden Bill Buford Malcolm Gladwell Jack Hitt Chuck Klosterman James McManus Susan Orlean Michael Pollan Lee Sandlin Dan Savage Coco Henson Scales David Foster Wallace Lawrence Weschler	4.22	10 reads
#11	The Devil in the White City Erik Larson	3.99	603 reads
#12	The Orchid Thief Susan Orlean	4.05	19 reads
#13	The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Merriam-Webster	3	2 reads
#14	A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail Bill Bryson	4.01	361 reads
#15	Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Tony Horwitz	4.17	25 reads
#16	Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris	3.97	476 reads
#17	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers	3.69	215 reads
#18	The Partly Cloudy Patriot Sarah Vowell	3.95	44 reads
#19	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Barbara Kingsolver	3.89	71 reads
#20	The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan	3.53	27 reads
#21	A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa Robert M. Sapolsky	0	0 reads
#22	Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson	3.44	106 reads
#23	When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago	3.91	12 reads
#24	Big Dead Place Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica Nicholas Johnson	4	3 reads
#25	The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific J. Maarten Troost	3.46	30 reads
#26	The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People Susan Orlean	4.5	2 reads
#27	Fraud: Essays David Rakoff	3.75	23 reads
#28	World-Systems Analysis World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction Immanuel Wallerstein	4.25	7 reads
#29	My American Century Studs Terkel	4	1 read
#30	Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith Anne Lamott	3.3	12 reads
#31	Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder	3.96	57 reads
#32	The Wordy Shipmates Sarah Vowell	3.77	51 reads
#33	The Best American Essays 2006	4	1 read
#34	Consider the Lobster and Other Essays David Foster Wallace	4.26	116 reads
#35	Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems David Rakoff	3.56	20 reads
#36	No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin	4.46	18 reads
#37	Profit Over People Noam Chomsky	4.14	9 reads
#38	When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris	3.95	202 reads
#39	Theodore Rex Edmund Morris	4.24	30 reads
#40	Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village Sarah Erdman	4	1 read
#41	Power : A Radical View Steven Lukes	0	0 reads
#42	Undaunted Courage Stephen E. Ambrose	4.1	48 reads
#43	I Like You Amy Sedaris	3.73	23 reads
#45	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007	3.67	4 reads
#46	Take the Cannoli Sarah Vowell	3.78	21 reads
#47	Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell	4	82 reads
#48	What Is the What Dave Eggers	4.04	64 reads
#49	The best American nonrequired reading 2006 Dave Eggers	4	2 reads
#50	Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Eric Schlosser	3.86	178 reads
#51	A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments David Foster Wallace	4.18	108 reads
#52	Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Anne Lamott	3.7	31 reads
#53	Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption Ralph James Savarese	0	0 reads
#54	Lakota Woman Mary Crow Dog Richard Erdoes	3.94	11 reads
#55	Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean Hilary Liftin Kate Montgomery	3	1 read
#56	Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent Anthony Rapp	4	6 reads
#57	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir Bill Bryson	3.73	80 reads
#58	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Judy Blume	5	2 reads
#59	Radio On: A Listener's Diary Sarah Vowell	0	0 reads
#60	Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand	4.13	62 reads
#61	1776 David McCullough	4.04	143 reads
#62	Neptune Noir	3.5	4 reads
#63	Beyond the Hundredth Meridian Wallace Stegner	4	3 reads
#64	Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Chuck Klosterman	3.73	130 reads
#65	The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America Bill Bryson	3.54	96 reads
#66	Lying Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir Lauren Slater	3.67	4 reads
#67	Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door Lynne Truss	3	7 reads
#68	Jaguars Ripped My Flesh Tim Cahill	3.33	3 reads
#69	Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto Vine Deloria Jr.	4.4	9 reads
#70	Pledged Alexandra Robbins	4	5 reads
#71	Culture of Fear Barry Glassner	3.25	4 reads
#72	Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins	3.21	36 reads
#73	The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan	4.13	243 reads
#74	Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer	4.21	121 reads
#75	Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	3.83	635 reads
#76	Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer	3.94	238 reads
#77	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer	4.27	411 reads
#78	Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories Mike Birbiglia	3.56	19 reads
#79	Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy	3	5 reads
#80	I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing Kyria Abrahams	3.67	4 reads
#81	This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life David Foster Wallace	4.54	97 reads
#82	Street gang Michael Davis	4	4 reads
#83	Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell	3.88	41 reads
#84	Skipping Towards Gomorrah Dan Savage	4.25	5 reads
#85	The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant Dan Savage	3.4	10 reads
#86	In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	4	147 reads
#87	Pedro and Me Judd Winick	3	1 read
#88	A.D. Josh Neufeld	3.88	15 reads
#89	Notes from no man's land : American essays Eula Biss	5	3 reads
#90	Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: On New Jobs, Old Loves, Fighting the Man, Having a Kid, Saving the World, and Everything in Between	4	1 read
#91	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Mindy Kaling	3.65	286 reads
#92	Fun home Alison Bechdel	4.02	324 reads
#93	An American Plague Jim Murphy	3.2	6 reads
#94	Ghostbread Sonja Livingston	5	1 read
#95	Rat Island William Stolzenburg	3.67	3 reads
#96	Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot Sy Montgomery	4	1 read
#97	Food Rules Michael Pollan Greta Thunberg Naomi Klein Timothy Morton George Monbiot Bill McKibben Amitav Ghosh Tim Flannery Terry Tempest Williams Robin Wall Kimmerer Dai Qing Wangari Maathai Jared Diamond Wendell Berry Edward O. Wilson James Lovelock Masanobu Fukuoka Arne Næss Rachel Carson Aldo Leopold	3.97	79 reads
#98	Bossypants	3.83	700 reads
#99	The Balloonists The Balloonists Eula Biss	5	2 reads
#100	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner	3.82	776 reads
#101	Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed	3.88	394 reads
#102	The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media Brooke Gladstone	4	4 reads