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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

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Bill Bryson
4.23578 reads
How To Win Friends and Influence People
How To Win Friends and Influence People
  • Dale Carnegie
3.92779 reads
The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene
  • Richard Dawkins
4.2238 reads
Educated: A Memoir
Educated: A Memoir
  • Tara Westover
4.431,098 reads
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.54249 reads
Peopleware
Peopleware
  • Tom DeMarco
  • Timothy R. Lister
4.3955 reads
Cosmos
Cosmos
  • Carl Sagan
4.49180 reads
Manufacturing Consent
Manufacturing Consent
  • Edward S. Herman
  • Noam Chomsky
4.0256 reads
Non Violent Communication A Language of Life
Non Violent Communication A Language of Life
  • Marshall B. Rosenberg
4.26100 reads
Deaf World
Deaf World
  • Lois Bragg
01 read
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Humankind: A Hopeful History
  • Rutger Bregman
4.3488 reads
Ishmael
Ishmael
  • Daniel Quinn
3.8126 reads
Inventing Reality
Inventing Reality
  • Michael Parenti
4.54 reads
A Promised Land
A Promised Land
  • Barack Obama
4.27315 reads
The God Delusion
The God Delusion
  • Richard Dawkins
3.89375 reads
So You Want to Talk about Race
So You Want to Talk about Race
  • Ijeoma Oluo
4.6190 reads
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
  • Lindsay C. Gibson
4.35140 reads
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.2849 reads
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
  • Chris Voss
  • Tahl Raz
4.29333 reads
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
  • Frans de Waal
3.935 reads
A Little History of Philosophy
A Little History of Philosophy
  • Nigel Warburton
4.0232 reads
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
  • Frans de Waal
4.256 reads
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
  • Merlin Sheldrake
4.3133 reads
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
  • Deirdre Mask
4.0822 reads
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
  • Jane Ward
3.67 reads
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species
  • Charles Darwin
4.1110 reads
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World
  • Peter Wohlleben
3.99131 reads
Less is More
Less is More
  • Jason Hickel
4.2825 reads
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
  • Amanda Montell
3.88275 reads
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  • David Graeber
  • David Wengrow
4.17108 reads
How Do You Live?
How Do You Live?
  • Genzaburo Yoshino
3.7558 reads
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
  • Laura Bates
4.4147 reads
Passions of the Cut Sleeve
Passions of the Cut Sleeve
  • Bret Hinsch
4.333 reads
Foreverland
Foreverland
  • Heather Havrilesky
413 reads
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
  • Paul B. Preciado
4.57 reads
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
  • Richard V. Reeves
3.7623 reads
White Women
White Women
  • Regina Jackson
  • Saira Rao
4.16 reads
Belly of the Beast
Belly of the Beast
  • Da’Shaun Harrison
4.86 reads
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
  • Mary Siisip Geniusz
51 read
Carnal Israel
Carnal Israel
  • Daniel Boyarin
42 reads
Not Gay
Not Gay
  • Jane Ward
4.333 reads
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
  • Anne Fadiman
46 reads
How to Think Like a Philosopher
How to Think Like a Philosopher
  • Julian Baggini
53 reads
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
  • Susan Cain
4.01580 reads
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The News About the News

The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril
  • Leonard Downie Jr.
  • Robert G. Kaiser
41 read
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
  • Christian Cooper
4.716 reads
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
  • Michael D. Gordin
52 reads
In the Beginning was the Command Line
In the Beginning was the Command Line
  • Neal Stephenson
53 reads
Der SS-Staat. Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager
Der SS-Staat. Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager
  • Eugen Kogon
51 read
Um der Ehre willen: Erinnerungen an die Freunde vom 20. Juli
Um der Ehre willen: Erinnerungen an die Freunde vom 20. Juli
  • Marion Dönhoff
51 read
Marion Dönhoff: Ein Widerständiges Leben
Marion Dönhoff: Ein Widerständiges Leben
  • Alice Schwarzer
51 read
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
  • Jonathan Weiner
4.5415 reads
Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings
Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings
  • Wendy Makoons Geniusz
41 read
Night
Night
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.34844 reads
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
  • Peter Watson
4.336 reads
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
  • Niall Ferguson
3.8347 reads
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  • Dave Eggers
3.69219 reads
A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
  • Howard Zinn
  • Kathy Emery
  • Ellen Gordon Reeves
4.23231 reads
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
  • Jonathan Haidt
4.38150 reads
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
  • David J.C. MacKay
4.5513 reads
I Didn't Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
I Didn't Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
  • Michela Wrong
42 reads
The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff
  • Annie Leonard
3.8112 reads
Finite and Infinite Games
Finite and Infinite Games
  • James P. Carse
3.3655 reads
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
  • David Graeber
4.17140 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Yuval Noah Harari
4.211,348 reads
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
3.88436 reads
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
  • James Nestor
3.81189 reads
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
  • Caroline Criado Perez
4.28275 reads