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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
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
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
Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World
Theresa MacPhail, 2023
Anthropology: Why It Matters
Tim Ingold, 2018
Jeg tenker nok du skjønner det sjøl
Jon Gangdal, 2010
The Rights of Nature The Rights of Nature
David Richard Boyd, 2017
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Ira Katznelson, 2013
Analyysiä reaaliluvuilla
Petteri Harjulehto, Riku Klén, Mika Koskenoja
La terre paternelle
Patrice Lacombe, 1980
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
Emily Chang, 2018
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
Richard V. Reeves, 2022
How to Sleep Like a Caveman
Merijn van de Laar, 2025
Data Feminism
Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch, 1998
Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Andrea Dworkin, 1981
§ 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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