Nonfiction

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#2
Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.62102 reads
#3
High Tide in Tucson
High Tide in Tucson
  • Barbara Kingsolver
4.310 reads
#4
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
  • Naomi Klein
4.2280 reads
#5
Zeitoun
Zeitoun
  • Dave Eggers
3.8968 reads
#6
Where the Girls Are
Where the Girls Are
  • Susan J. Douglas
31 read
#7
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
  • Josh Swiller
51 read
#8
Small Wonder
Small Wonder
  • Barbara Kingsolver
3.759 reads
#9
No Logo
No Logo
  • Naomi Klein
3.7360 reads
#10
The New Kings of Nonfiction
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
4.2210 reads
#11
The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City
  • Erik Larson
3.99630 reads
#12
The Orchid Thief
The Orchid Thief
  • Susan Orlean
4.0519 reads
#13
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The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
  • Merriam-Webster
32 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
3.99397 reads
#15
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
  • Tony Horwitz
4.1927 reads
#16
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day
  • David Sedaris
3.98494 reads
#17
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  • Dave Eggers
3.7222 reads
#18
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
  • Sarah Vowell
3.945 reads
#19
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
  • Barbara Kingsolver
3.8874 reads
#20
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique
  • Betty Friedan
3.528 reads
#21
A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
  • Robert M. Sapolsky
00 reads
#22
Three Cups of Tea
Three Cups of Tea
  • Greg Mortenson
3.46111 reads
#23
When I Was Puerto Rican
When I Was Puerto Rican
  • Esmeralda Santiago
3.8313 reads
#24
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Big Dead Place

Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
  • Nicholas Johnson
45 reads
#25
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
  • J. Maarten Troost
3.4833 reads
#26
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People
  • Susan Orlean
4.334 reads
#27
Fraud: Essays
Fraud: Essays
  • David Rakoff
3.7523 reads
#28
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World-Systems Analysis

World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
  • Immanuel Wallerstein
4.28 reads
#29
My American Century
My American Century
  • Studs Terkel
41 read
#30
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
  • Anne Lamott
3.312 reads
#31
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Mountains Beyond Mountains
  • Tracy Kidder
3.9861 reads
#32
The Wordy Shipmates
The Wordy Shipmates
  • Sarah Vowell
3.7751 reads
#33
The Best American Essays 2006
The Best American Essays 2006
    41 read
    #34
    Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
    Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
    • David Foster Wallace
    4.23125 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
    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
    3.4721 reads
    #36
    No Ordinary Time
    No Ordinary Time
    • Doris Kearns Goodwin
    4.4319 reads
    #37
    Profit Over People
    Profit Over People
    • Noam Chomsky
    4.1310 reads
    #38
    When You Are Engulfed in Flames
    When You Are Engulfed in Flames
    • David Sedaris
    3.96220 reads
    #39
    Theodore Rex
    Theodore Rex
    • Edmund Morris
    4.2431 reads
    #40
    Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
    Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
    • Sarah Erdman
    41 read
    #41
    Power : A Radical View
    Power : A Radical View
    • Steven Lukes
    00 reads
    #42
    Undaunted Courage
    Undaunted Courage
    • Stephen E. Ambrose
    4.150 reads
    #43
    I Like You
    I Like You
    • Amy Sedaris
    3.7323 reads
    #45
    The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
    The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
      3.674 reads
      #46
      Take the Cannoli
      Take the Cannoli
      • Sarah Vowell
      3.7524 reads
      #47
      Assassination Vacation
      Assassination Vacation
      • Sarah Vowell
      4.0382 reads
      #48
      What Is the What
      What Is the What
      • Dave Eggers
      4.0465 reads
      #49
      The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
      The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
        43 reads
        #50
        Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
        Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
        • Eric Schlosser
        3.87185 reads
        #51
        A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
        A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
        • David Foster Wallace
        4.19112 reads
        #52
        Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
        Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
        • Anne Lamott
        3.732 reads
        #53
        Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
        Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption
        • Ralph James Savarese
        00 reads
        #54
        Lakota Woman
        Lakota Woman
        • Mary Crow Dog
        • Richard Erdoes
        3.9411 reads
        #55
        Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
        Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
        • Hilary Liftin
        • Kate Montgomery
        31 read
        #56
        Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent
        Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent
        • Anthony Rapp
        46 reads
        #57
        The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
        The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
        • Bill Bryson
        3.7584 reads
        #58
        The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
        The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
          43 reads
          #59
          Radio On: A Listener's Diary
          Radio On: A Listener's Diary
          • Sarah Vowell
          00 reads
          #60
          Seabiscuit: An American Legend
          Seabiscuit: An American Legend
          • Laura Hillenbrand
          4.1164 reads
          #61
          1776
          1776
          • David McCullough
          4.04148 reads
          #62
          Neptune Noir
          Neptune Noir
            3.54 reads
            #63
            Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
            Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
            • Wallace Stegner
            43 reads
            #64
            Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
            Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
            • Chuck Klosterman
            3.71135 reads
            #65
            The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
            The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
            • Bill Bryson
            3.56101 reads
            #66
            Cover 3

            Lying

            Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
            • Lauren Slater
            3.674 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
            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
            37 reads
            #68
            Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
            Jaguars Ripped My Flesh
            • Tim Cahill
            3.333 reads
            #69
            Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
            Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
            • Vine Deloria Jr.
            4.510 reads
            #70
            Pledged
            Pledged
            • Alexandra Robbins
            45 reads
            #71
            Culture of Fear
            Culture of Fear
            • Barry Glassner
            3.254 reads
            #72
            Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
            Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
            • John Perkins
            3.2838 reads
            #73
            The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
            The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
            • Michael Pollan
            4.1256 reads
            #74
            Eating Animals
            Eating Animals
            • Jonathan Safran Foer
            4.21125 reads
            #75
            Into the Wild
            Into the Wild
            • Jon Krakauer
            • Christopher Johnson McCandless
            3.83670 reads
            #76
            Under the Banner of Heaven
            Under the Banner of Heaven
            • Jon Krakauer
            3.93246 reads
            #77
            Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
            Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
            • Jon Krakauer
            4.26439 reads
            #78
            Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
            Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
            • Mike Birbiglia
            3.5921 reads
            #79
            Lost in the Cosmos
            Lost in the Cosmos
            • Walker Percy
            35 reads
            #80
            I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
            I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
            • Kyria Abrahams
            3.674 reads
            #81
            This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
            This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
            • David Foster Wallace
            4.53102 reads
            #82
            Street gang
            Street gang
            • Michael Davis
            44 reads
            #83
            Unfamiliar Fishes
            Unfamiliar Fishes
            • Sarah Vowell
            3.8943 reads
            #84
            Skipping Towards Gomorrah
            Skipping Towards Gomorrah
            • Dan Savage
            4.255 reads
            #85
            The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
            The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
            • Dan Savage
            3.410 reads
            #86
            In A Sunburned Country
            In A Sunburned Country
            • Bill Bryson
            4160 reads
            #87
            Pedro and Me
            Pedro and Me
            • Judd Winick
            31 read
            #88
            A.D.
            A.D.
            • Josh Neufeld
            3.8815 reads
            #89
            Notes from no man's land : American essays
            Notes from no man's land : American essays
            • Eula Biss
            53 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
            Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: On New Jobs, Old Loves, Fighting the Man, Having a Kid, Saving the World, and Everything in Between
              41 read
              #91
              Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
              Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
              • Mindy Kaling
              3.63335 reads
              #92
              Fun home
              Fun home
              • Alison Bechdel
              4.06342 reads
              #93
              An American Plague
              An American Plague
              • Jim Murphy
              3.26 reads
              #94
              Ghostbread
              Ghostbread
              • Sonja Livingston
              51 read
              #95
              Rat Island
              Rat Island
              • William Stolzenburg
              3.673 reads
              #96
              Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
              Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
              • Sy Montgomery
              41 read
              #97
              Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
              Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
              • Michael Pollan
              3.9985 reads
              #98
              Bossypants
              Bossypants
                3.82718 reads
                #99
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                The Balloonists

                The Balloonists
                • Eula Biss
                52 reads
                #100
                Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
                Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
                • Steven D. Levitt
                • Stephen J. Dubner
                3.82815 reads
                #101
                Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
                Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
                • Cheryl Strayed
                3.89407 reads
                #102
                The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
                The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
                • Brooke Gladstone
                4.28 reads