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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
Cosmos
Carl Sagan, 1980
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez, 2019
So You Want to Talk about Race
Ijeoma Oluo, 2018
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, 2001
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins, 1976
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander, 2010
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb, 2012
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, 1980
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty, 2014
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder, 1905
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell, 2021
Careless People
Sarah Wynn-Williams, 2025
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick, 2009
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Amanda Lee, 1848
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman, 2019
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
Chris van Tulleken, 2023
Non Violent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshall B. Rosenberg, 1999
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow, 2021
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, 1859
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Cal Newport, 2024
Logicomix
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Apostolos Doxiadis, Χρίστος Χ. Παπαδημητρίου
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky, 1980
§ 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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