Prompts

Non-fiction books that expanded your understanding of the world

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@Tara123
Tara

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything
How To Win Friends and Influence People
The Selfish Gene
Educated: A Memoir
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Peopleware
Cosmos
Manufacturing Consent
Non Violent Communication A Language of Life
Deaf World
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Ishmael
Inventing Reality
A Promised Land
The God Delusion
So You Want to Talk about Race
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
A Little History of Philosophy
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
On the Origin of Species
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World
Less is More
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
How Do You Live?
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
Passions of the Cut Sleeve
Foreverland
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
White Women
Belly of the Beast
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
Carnal Israel
Not Gay
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

How to Think Like a Philosopher
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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The News About the News

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
In the Beginning was the Command Line
Der SS-Staat. Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager
Um der Ehre willen: Erinnerungen an die Freunde vom 20. Juli
Marion Dönhoff: Ein Widerständiges Leben
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings
Night
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A People's History of the United States
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
I Didn't Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
The Story of Stuff
Finite and Infinite Games
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men