Non Fiction

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#2
Where Men Win Glory
Where Men Win Glory
  • Jon Krakauer
51 read
#3
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
  • Jon Krakauer
4.0433 reads
#4
Eating Animals
Eating Animals
  • Jonathan Safran Foer
4.2120 reads
#5
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  • Mary Roach
3.92117 reads
#6
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
  • Richard Dawkins
4.3479 reads
#7
The Way We Eat
The Way We Eat
  • Peter Singer
3.333 reads
#8
The Rest Is Noise
The Rest Is Noise
  • Alex Ross
4.4416 reads
#9
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • Richard Rhodes
4.4752 reads
#10
Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
  • Mark Twain
2.335 reads
#11
The Animal Dialogues
The Animal Dialogues
  • Craig Childs
4.52 reads
#13
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
  • Tom Wolfe
3.6167 reads
#14
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  • Mary Roach
3.9319 reads
#15
Packing for Mars
Packing for Mars
  • Mary Roach
4.02133 reads
#16
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
  • David Foster Wallace
4.29110 reads
#17
A Civil Action
A Civil Action
  • Jonathan Harr
421 reads
#18
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood
  • Truman Capote
4.11498 reads
#19
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  • Michael Pollan
4.14238 reads
#20
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  • Anne Fadiman
4.0962 reads
#21
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
  • Brian Greene
3.99100 reads
#22
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
  • Nick Lane
4.6313 reads
#23
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
  • Carl Sagan
4.22164 reads
#24
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.7937 reads
#25
Reading in the Brain
Reading in the Brain
  • Stanislas Dehaene
43 reads
#26
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
  • Jake Adelstein
3.854 reads
#27
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
  • Tracy Kidder
3.8812 reads
#28
Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
  • Richard Holmes
3.5612 reads
#29
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking
  • Joan Didion
4.03259 reads
#30
Your Inner Fish
Your Inner Fish
  • Neil Shubin
3.8239 reads
#31
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
  • Jared Diamond
3.89399 reads
#32
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
  • Dan Ariely
4.05199 reads
#33
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
  • Sean B. Carroll
46 reads
#35
Newjack
Newjack
  • Ted Conover
3.53 reads
#36
On the Road
On the Road
  • Jack Kerouac
3.34516 reads
#37
The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Fabric of the Cosmos
  • Brian Greene
4.0539 reads
#38
Coming into the Country
Coming into the Country
  • John McPhee
4.586 reads
#39
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
  • Matt Ridley
3.927 reads
#40
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
  • Sean Carroll
3.713 reads
#41
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day
  • David Sedaris
3.97469 reads
#42
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
  • Oliver Sacks
4.0736 reads
#43
Awakenings
Awakenings
  • Oliver Sacks
4.2521 reads
#44
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The Island of the Colorblind

The Island of the Colorblind
  • Oliver Sacks
3.66 reads
#45
Eating the Dinosaur
Eating the Dinosaur
  • Chuck Klosterman
3.9143 reads
#46
Chuck Klosterman IV : A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Chuck Klosterman IV : A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
  • Chuck Klosterman
3.7430 reads
#47
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
  • Hunter S. Thompson
3.6765 reads
#48
Fear and Loathing: on the Campaign Trail '72
Fear and Loathing: on the Campaign Trail '72
  • Hunter S. Thompson
4.0241 reads
#49
The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene
  • Richard Dawkins
4.22215 reads
#50
The Ancestor's Tale
The Ancestor's Tale
  • Yan Wong
  • Richard Dawkins
4.2229 reads
#51
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    3.9535 reads
    #52
    Hitch 22: A Memoir
    Hitch 22: A Memoir
    • Christopher Hitchens
    4.129 reads
    #53
    Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
    Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
    • Daniel C. Dennett
    4.314 reads
    #54
    Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World
    Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World
      41 read
      #55
      Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
      Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
      • Gary Ferguson
      51 read
      #56
      Death in Yellowstone
      Death in Yellowstone
      • Lee H. Whittlesey
      2.718 reads
      #57
      Silent Spring
      Silent Spring
      • Rachel Carson
      3.7869 reads
      #58
      The Jungle
      The Jungle
      • Upton Sinclair
      3.72161 reads
      #59
      The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
      The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
      • Steven Pinker
      3.619 reads
      #60
      Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
      Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
      • Noam Chomsky
      3.7726 reads
      #61
      Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
      Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
      • Henry David Thoreau
      3.8142 reads
      #62
      On the Origin of Species
      On the Origin of Species
      • Charles Darwin
      4.13105 reads
      #63
      The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
      The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
      • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
      • Thomas P. Whitney
      • H.T. Willetts
      4.1347 reads
      #64
      The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
      The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
      • Simon Winchester
      3.85124 reads
      #65
      The Dharma Bums
      The Dharma Bums
      • Jack Kerouac
      3.98125 reads
      #66
      The Motorcycle Diaries
      The Motorcycle Diaries
      • Ernesto Che Guevara
      3.856 reads
      #67
      The Grand Design
      The Grand Design
      • Stephen Hawking
      • Leonard Mlodinow
      3.9584 reads
      #68
      Here's Looking at Euclid
      Here's Looking at Euclid
      • Alex Bellos
      42 reads
      #69
      The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
      The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
      • Siddhartha Mukherjee
      4.24155 reads
      #70
      The Drunkard's Walk
      The Drunkard's Walk
      • Leonard Mlodinow
      3.9248 reads
      #72
      How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
      How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
      • Mike Brown
      • Ryan Gesell
      4.526 reads
      #73
      Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
      Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
      • Jennifer Michael Hecht
      4.754 reads
      #75
      The Tao Of Physics: An Exploration Of The Parallels Between Modern Physics And Eastern Mysticism
      The Tao Of Physics: An Exploration Of The Parallels Between Modern Physics And Eastern Mysticism
      • Fritjof Capra
      3.7523 reads
      #76
      The World Without Us
      The World Without Us
      • Alan Weisman
      3.5676 reads
      #78
      Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
      Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
      • Rolf Potts
      3.8652 reads
      #79
      The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
      The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
      • James Gleick
      4.0712 reads
      #80
      The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
      The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
      • Seth Mnookin
      4.2711 reads
      #81
      The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
      The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
      • Naomi Klein
      4.2171 reads
      #82
      Malcolm X
      Malcolm X
      • Manning Marable
      4.211 reads
      #83
      Lincoln
      Lincoln
      • Gore Vidal
      4.1312 reads
      #84
      Globalization and Its Discontents
      Globalization and Its Discontents
      • Joseph E. Stiglitz
      3.3810 reads
      #86
      This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
      This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
      • Drew Gilpin Faust
      3.818 reads
      #87
      A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
      A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
      • Tony Horwitz
      3.678 reads
      #88
      Last Child in the Woods
      Last Child in the Woods
      • Richard Louv
      3.8812 reads
      #89
      Walden
      Walden
      • Henry David Thoreau
      3.66248 reads
      #90
      The Diversity of Life
      The Diversity of Life
      • Edward O. Wilson
      3.65 reads
      #91
      The Snow Leopard
      The Snow Leopard
      • Peter Matthiessen
      3.9720 reads
      #92
      A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
      A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
      • Bill Bryson
      4.02353 reads
      #93
      The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
      The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
      • David Quammen
      4.838 reads
      #94
      The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
      The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
      • Orhan Pamuk
      • Roberto Falcó Miramontes (Translator)
      3.52 reads
      #95
      Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
      Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
      • Annie Dillard
      4.5240 reads
      #96
      The Devil in the White City
      The Devil in the White City
      • Erik Larson
      3.99585 reads
      #97
      Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
      Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
      • Christopher McDougall
      4.29224 reads
      #98
      The Psychopath Test
      The Psychopath Test
      • Jon Ronson
      3.7788 reads
      #99
      The Art of War
      The Art of War
      • Sun Tzu
      3.69604 reads
      #101
      Common Sense and Other Writings
      Common Sense and Other Writings
      • Thomas Paine
      4.255 reads
      #102
      Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
      Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
      • Ralph Waldo Emerson
      • Peter Norberg
      00 reads
      #103
      The Federalist Papers
      The Federalist Papers
      • Alexander Hamilton
      • James Madison
      • John Jay
      4.626 reads
      #105
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      • Stephanie Nolen
      51 read
      #106
      Why Evolution Is True
      Why Evolution Is True
      • Jerry A. Coyne
      4.325 reads
      #107
      The Political Mind
      The Political Mind
      • George Lakoff
      4.176 reads
      #108
      Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
      Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
      • Jon Krakauer
      4.27405 reads
      #109
      Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
      Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
      • Oliver Sacks
      3.7265 reads