40 Best Nonfiction Books
Goal: Find the best Nonfiction books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best nonfiction books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
40 Best Nonfiction Books
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
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The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
Also recommended by:
Joe Rogan, Bill Gates, Naval Ravikant, Lex Fridman, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Attia, Ashton Kutcher, Whitney Cummings, Richard Branson, Ray Dalio, Vinod Khosla, James Cameron, Demis Hassabis, Keith Rabois, Daniel Ek, Reid Hoffman, Sam Kass, Sebastian Junger, Bill Gurley, Karlie Kloss, Kishore Biyani, Ryan Shea, PewDiePie, Melinda Gates, Anthony Pompliano, Changpeng Zhao, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Chris Evans, Mark Manson, Simon Mayo, Penn Jillette, James Clear
How To Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Also recommended by:
Jack Dorsey, Bob Iger, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Cal Fussman, Mark Manson, Sunny Hostin, Jay-Z
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
Also recommended by:
Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Anthony Pompliano, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Tim Cook, Peter King, Shauna Niequist, James Clear
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Also recommended by:
Warren Buffett, Shah Rukh Khan, Stewart Brand, Amanda Palmer, Dominic D'Agostino, Jamie Dimon
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
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The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
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The Road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
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Wild Swans
Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
Good-Bye to All That
An Autobiography
by Robert Graves
How to Cook a Wolf
by M.F.K. Fisher
Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
Sources
- 1
Best Nonfiction Books: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of All-Time
jamesclear.com
- 2
The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 100 Years | Book Riot
bookriot.com
- 3
50 essential non-fiction books
abebooks.com
- 4
The 100 best nonfiction books of all time: the full list | Books | The Guardian
theguardian.com
- 5
50 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time | Reader's Digest
rd.com
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