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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
The Origins of Unhappiness: A New Understanding of Personal Distress
David Smail, 1999
A Little History of Philosophy
Nigel Warburton, 2011
Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications
Louis Dumont, 1966
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
Victoria Law, 2021
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Kyle Chayka, 2024
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder, 1905
Y'All Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia
Z. Zane McNeill, 2022
The Family Firm
Emily Oster, 2021
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal, 2016
Primo Levi e Se questo è un uomo
Alberto Cavaglion, 1993
Min skyld - En historie om frigjøring
Abid Raja, 2021
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2016
A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park, 2009
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, 1859
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick, 2009
The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril
Leonard Downie Jr., Robert G. Kaiser, 2002
El infinito en un junco. La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
Irene Vallejo, 2019
Structural Anthropology
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1977
Industrial Society and Its Future
Theodore J. Kaczynski, 1995
§ 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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