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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
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson, 2003
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Amanda Lee, 1848
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, 2011
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover, 2018
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins, 2001
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, 1913
Inventing Reality
Michael Parenti, 1993
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie, 1913
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, 2014
A Promised Land
Barack Obama, 2020
Cosmos
Carl Sagan, 1980
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, 2022
Night
Elie Wiesel, 1955
Ishmael
Daniel Quinn, 1992
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker, 2017
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins, 1976
A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali
Naji al-Ali, 2009
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2014
So You Want to Talk about Race
Ijeoma Oluo, 2018
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb, 2012
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Cal Newport, 2024
§ About this list
- Books
- 100
- Published
- 1626–2025
- Average rating
- 4.2 / 5 across 19,289 ratings
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Classics, General
Most-rated on Non-fiction books that expanded your understanding of the world
- 1I'm Glad My Mom Died · Jennette McCurdy
- 2The Diary of a Young Girl · Anne Frank
- 3Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind · Yuval Noah Harari
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