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25 of the Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

"Here I have composed a list of 25 books that I think are readable and among some of the best nonfiction books of all time. This is, of course, not a definitive list, and I am sure to have missed some of your favourites — to compose a definitive list of the best nonfiction books of all time, one would actually have to know everything about everything. These are books that are well written, have had an impact on our understanding of the world, or are books that deal with important, profound themes. I have excluded memoirs, autobiographies, and poetry, for I felt that the scope of this list is too small to do justice to such a wide range of offerings." - Senjuti Patra/Book Riot
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
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On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
3
The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
4
Nationalism (Rabindranath Tagore)
Nationalism (Rabindranath Tagore)
5
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
6
Hiroshima (John Hersey)
Hiroshima (John Hersey)
7
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
8
The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
9
Orientalism (Edward W. Said)
Orientalism (Edward W. Said)
10
Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde)
Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde)
11
The Unwomanly Face of War (Svetlana Alexievich)
The Unwomanly Face of War (Svetlana Alexievich)
12
Decolonising the Mind (Ngugi Wa Thiong'o)
Decolonising the Mind (Ngugi Wa Thiong'o)
13
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
14
The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
15
The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson)
The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson)
16
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
17
Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
18
Men Explain Things to Me (Rebecca Solnit)
Men Explain Things to Me (Rebecca Solnit)
19
The Sixth Extinction: An Annatural History (Elizabeth Kolbert)
The Sixth Extinction: An Annatural History (Elizabeth Kolbert)
20
The Gene (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The Gene (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
21
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Ed Yong)
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Ed Yong)
22
The Anarchy (William Dalrymple)
The Anarchy (William Dalrymple)
23
Figuring (Maria Popova)
Figuring (Maria Popova)
24
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Caroline Criado Perez)
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Caroline Criado Perez)
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Time's Monster: How History Makes History (Priya Satia)
Time's Monster: How History Makes History (Priya Satia)
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