100MustReads

Top Non-Fiction Books

Vote on the best non-fiction books everyone must read

2
Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

724
34
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3
Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

749
82
+667
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4
Educated: A Memoir

by Tara Westover

702
56
+646
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5
A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

679
67
+612
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6
Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

678
89
+589
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7
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

645
78
+567
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9
Kitchen Confidential

by Anthony Bourdain

623
89
+534
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10
Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

567
43
+524
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11
Long Walk to Freedom

by Nelson Mandela

567
45
+522
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14
Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

589
78
+511
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16
Wild

by Cheryl Strayed

568
78
+490
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17
Braiding Sweetgrass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

523
56
+467
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18
The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

534
89
+445
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19
The Hidden Life of Trees

by Peter Wohlleben

456
34
+422
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20
The Omnivore's Dilemma

by Michael Pollan

489
67
+422
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21
The Warmth of Other Suns

by Isabel Wilkerson

456
34
+422
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22
Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

456
43
+413
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23
Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner

472
59
+413
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24
The Guns of August

by Barbara Tuchman

445
34
+411
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25
Just Kids

by Patti Smith

445
56
+389
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445
67
+378
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28
Trick Mirror

by Jia Tolentino

428
63
+365
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29
The Innovator's Dilemma

by Clayton M. Christensen

423
67
+356
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30
The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

445
89
+356
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31
The Argonauts

by Maggie Nelson

389
48
+341
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32
The Double Helix

by James D. Watson

389
67
+322
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33
A Sand County Almanac

by Aldo Leopold

367
45
+322
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34
Consider the Lobster

by David Foster Wallace

389
67
+322
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35
Lab Girl

by Hope Jahren

367
45
+322
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36
Underland

by Robert Macfarlane

345
31
+314
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37
The Republic

by Plato

390
78
+312
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38
In Patagonia

by Bruce Chatwin

345
43
+302
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39
Caliban and the Witch

by Silvia Federici

345
55
+290
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43
Bowling Alone

by Robert D. Putnam

334
78
+256
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44
The Mushroom at the End of the World

by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

284
36
+248
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46
Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

298
67
+231
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47
The Complete Essays of Montaigne

by Michel de Montaigne

267
56
+211
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48
The Power Broker

by Robert Caro

234
67
+167
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49
Being and Time

by Martin Heidegger

234
89
+145
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