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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 Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron, 1992
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino, 1937
No Logo
Naomi Klein, 1999
Inventing Reality
Michael Parenti, 1993
A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali
Naji al-Ali, 2009
Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel
Roberts Andrew, 2001
Deaf World
Lois Bragg, 2001
How to Think Like a Philosopher
Julian Baggini, 2023
Blood and Sand
Frank Gardner, 2007
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
John Vaillant, 2005
My Old Man and the Sea
David Hays, 1996
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
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
§ 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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- So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo has the highest average rating among the list's books with at least 100 ratings: 4.6 out of 5.
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