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Nonfiction Books

Get inspired by true stories, learn a new skill, or dive deep into history with the best nonfiction books.

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Top Nonfiction Books

Michelle Obama

The Only Plane in the Sky

Garrett M. Graff

John Carreyrou

Invisible Women

Caroline Criado Perez

Jon Krakauer

Tara Westover

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

The Great Bridge

David McCullough

Trevor Noah

To Hell and Back

Audie Murphy

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I’m Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

Javier Zamora

Nowhere for Very Long

Brianna Madia

The Palace Papers

Tina Brown

Viola Davis

An Immense World

Ed Yong

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Matthew Perry

The Light We Carry

Michelle Obama

Good for a Girl

Lauren Fleshman

Code Name Blue Wren

Jim Popkin

The Nazi Conspiracy

Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

Screaming on the Inside

Jessica Grose

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The New York Times

#1 Nonfiction Bestseller

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Best Nonfiction 2021

Goodreads Choice Awards

Best Memoir 2020

Oprah Winfrey Book Club

August 2020

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Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

Patrick Radden Keefe

Beautiful Country

Qian Julie Wang

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

The Bomber Mafia

Malcolm Gladwell

Finding Freedom

Erin French

Books About Racism

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander

Bryan Stevenson

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

I’m Still Here

Austin Channing Brown

Business Books

Phil Knight

Jim Collins

Sheryl Sandberg

The $100 Startup

Chris Guillebeau

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Building a Story Brand

Donald Miller

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The Best Minimalism Books

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Marie Kondo

Declutter Like a Mother

Allie Casazza

Decluttering at the Speed of Life

Dana K. White

Greg McKeown

Brooke McAlary

The More of Less

Joshua Becker

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