Madhur's votes on the list Best of 21st Century Non-fiction

Listopia > Madhur's votes on the list Best of 21st Century Non-fiction (40 Books)

1	The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley 3.92 avg rating — 3,486 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 4.49 avg rating — 219,112 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens 3.96 avg rating — 112,999 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer 4.28 avg rating — 4,862 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 476,708 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 1,609 ratings Madhur rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 284,021 ratings Madhur rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 4.22 avg rating — 424,483 ratings Madhur rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.34 avg rating — 114,901 ratings Madhur rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari 4.18 avg rating — 288,783 ratings Madhur rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.35 avg rating — 56,096 ratings Madhur rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century by Shashi Tharoor 3.87 avg rating — 2,300 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 9,242 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal 3.97 avg rating — 16,528 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome by Nessa Carey 3.94 avg rating — 1,103 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it by Ian Goldin 3.53 avg rating — 59 ratings Madhur rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky 4.05 avg rating — 12,477 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari 3.80 avg rating — 190,030 ratings Madhur rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	A History of the World by Andrew Marr 4.19 avg rating — 4,039 ratings Madhur rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen 3.83 avg rating — 8,804 ratings Madhur rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	How the World Works by Noam Chomsky 4.13 avg rating — 5,332 ratings Madhur rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Mastery by Robert Greene (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 49,278 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 29,681 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 79,717 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 1,728 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4.39 avg rating — 332,205 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong 4.17 avg rating — 31,930 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 35,143 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 8,442 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Medical Industrial Complex (The Underground Knowledge Series, #3) by James Morcan (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 79 ratings Madhur rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 2,232 ratings Madhur rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett 3.79 avg rating — 3,732 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna 4.13 avg rating — 6,520 ratings Madhur added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Evolution of God by Robert Wright 3.94 avg rating — 8,040 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 59,566 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 7,395 ratings Madhur rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari 4.15 avg rating — 178,367 ratings Madhur rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo 4.08 avg rating — 3,446 ratings Madhur added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Permanent Record by Edward Snowden 4.30 avg rating — 58,184 ratings Madhur added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Conundrum by Chandrachur Ghose 4.63 avg rating — 321 ratings Madhur added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars