Prompts

Non-fiction books that expanded your understanding of the world

Any non-fiction books that taught you something that made you understand the world better

A Short History of Nearly Everything

2003 • 1,349 Readers • 705 pages 4.2

How To Win Friends and Influence People

1913 • 1,329 Readers • 288 pages 3.9

The Selfish Gene

1976 • 627 Readers • 657 pages 4.2

Educated: A Memoir

2018 • 1,921 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

Peopleware

1987 • 161 Readers • 245 pages 4.4

Cosmos

1980 • 566 Readers • 450 pages • 14h 32m 4.5

Manufacturing Consent

2002 • 310 Readers • 482 pages 4

Non Violent Communication A Language of Life

1999 • 314 Readers • 264 pages 4.3

Deaf World

2001 • 1 Reader • 469 pages

Humankind: A Hopeful History

2019 • 308 Readers • 498 pages 4.3

Ishmael

#1 of 3 in Ishmael

1992 • 241 Readers • 240 pages 3.8

Inventing Reality

1993 • 39 Readers • 274 pages 4.5

A Promised Land

#1 of 1 in The Presidential Memoirs

2020 • 684 Readers • 768 pages 4.3

The God Delusion

2006 • 669 Readers • 465 pages 3.9

So You Want to Talk about Race

2018 • 453 Readers • 7h 42m 4.6

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

2016 • 341 Readers • 6h 50m 4.3

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

#3 of 7 in ReVisioning American History

2014 • 188 Readers 4.3

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

2016 • 171 Readers • 340 pages 3.9

A Little History of Philosophy

9 Little History

2011 • 68 Readers • 252 pages 4

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

2020 • 28 Readers • 215 pages 3.6

On the Origin of Species

1859 • 385 Readers • 393 pages 4.1

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World

#1 of 3 in The Mysteries of Nature Series

2015 • 395 Readers • 250 pages 4

Less is More

2020 • 111 Readers • 320 pages 4.3

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

2021 • 700 Readers • 272 pages 3.9

How Do You Live?

1937 • 181 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Passions of the Cut Sleeve

1990 • 13 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

Foreverland

2022 • 36 Readers • 270 pages 4

White Women

2022 • 24 Readers • 225 pages 4.1

Belly of the Beast

2021 • 40 Readers • 256 pages 4.8

Carnal Israel

4 The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics

1993 • 3 Readers • 272 pages 4

Not Gay

2015 • 8 Readers • 251 pages 4.3

How to Think Like a Philosopher

2023 • 10 Readers • 318 pages 5

Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

1 Quiet

2012 • 1,316 Readers • 370 pages 4

On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

2021 • 5 Readers • 137 pages 5

Marion Dönhoff: Ein Widerständiges Leben

1996 • 1 Reader • 372 pages 5

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

1994 • 47 Readers • 332 pages 4.5

Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings

1 The Iroquois and Their Neighbors

2009 • 4 Readers • 248 pages 4

Night

#1 of 3 in The Night Trilogy

1955 • 1,234 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

2007 • 127 Readers • 464 pages 3.8

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2000 • 358 Readers • 437 pages 3.7

A People's History of the United States

1980 • 648 Readers • 642 pages 4.2

Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

2009 • 29 Readers • 384 pages 4.5

The Story of Stuff

2010 • 27 Readers • 368 pages 3.8

Finite and Infinite Games

1986 • 186 Readers • 119 pages 3.4

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

2011 • 503 Readers • 534 pages 4.2

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,622 Readers • 443 pages 4.2

Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

1997 • 1,012 Readers • 480 pages 3.9

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

2020 • 434 Readers • 304 pages 3.8