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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8537 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,805,480 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7874 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,117,331 ratings — published 1947
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7583 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,874 ratings — published 2010
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7239 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,392,149 ratings — published 2022
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6645 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,224,529 ratings — published 2011
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6612 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 747,100 ratings — published 2003
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6262 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 469,380 ratings — published 2012
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6011 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,344,665 ratings — published 1956
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5763 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,259 ratings — published 2015
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5403 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,229,320 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5397 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,173,958 ratings — published 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 5365 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 433,815 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5177 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 788,053 ratings — published 2016
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 5025 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 236,588 ratings — published 2003
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4973 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 853,527 ratings — published 2008
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4861 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,175,916 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4858 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,339,675 ratings — published 2005
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 4794 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 717,288 ratings — published 1966
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4733 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 890,276 ratings — published 2005
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4676 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 571,904 ratings — published 2021
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4647 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 324,318 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4594 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 781,094 ratings — published 2016
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4503 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.37 — 848,804 ratings — published 1946
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4502 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 617,614 ratings — published 2005
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 4234 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 260,269 ratings — published 2018
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 4175 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,046,922 ratings — published 2011
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 4173 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 557,372 ratings — published 1997
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 4084 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 416,359 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4065 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,762 ratings — published 1997
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4061 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,362,105 ratings — published 2016
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4043 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 161,552 ratings — published 2019
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3995 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 313,228 ratings — published 2000
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3993 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 388,661 ratings — published 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3988 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 995,229 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3921 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,359 ratings — published 2014
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3913 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 180,269 ratings — published 2016
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3906 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.51 — 164,109 ratings — published 2013
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3809 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,154 ratings — published 2020
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3783 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 857,152 ratings — published 2012
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 3777 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 848,280 ratings — published 2000
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3753 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,928 ratings — published 2010
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3730 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 573,783 ratings — published 2011
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3643 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 264,511 ratings — published 2014
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3580 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 166,852 ratings — published 2021
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3503 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 495,000 ratings — published 2016
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3502 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 112,625 ratings — published 2021
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3455 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 616,277 ratings — published 2012
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3381 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 439,945 ratings — published 1998
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3351 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,984 ratings — published 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3347 times as nonfiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 278,555 ratings — published 2018
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