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Why Good Nonfiction Books Matter
Whatever problem you’re facing, whatever you’re struggling with, whatever mentorship you feel you’re missing – your answers are out there, somewhere, in a nonfiction book.
Someone has been through this already. They’ve found the solution. They’ve learned the answers. They’ve spent years of their life researching and recording their discoveries, somewhere, in this ultimate list of must-read nonfiction books.
Looking for something specific? You’ll find breakdowns of my best nonfiction book recommendations, by topic, on the book recommendations page.
Curious which of these nonfiction books have most changed my life? Go check out some of my book summaries.
But if you’re just curious what the best nonfiction books of all time are; if you’re looking for a list of nonfiction book recommendations; if you want something inspiring to read next then you can stop looking.
Check out the list of nonfiction book recommendations below, pick the first title that jumps out at you and start reading!
Read wisely, read widely and read well.
(P.s., Enjoy this? Try this list of the 100 best fiction books of all time.)
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time (by Rank)
Why these best nonfiction books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timelessly relevant (first publication date).
This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best nonfiction books ever published as decided by book lovers just like you. (Note: To maximise diversity, I only include the top ranking book from any series in a list.)
And if you think something's missing? I LOVE book recommendations so if there are any other best nonfiction books that you think deserve mentioning, email me and I’ll be sure to include them in the next round of updates.
Until then, enjoy this ultimate list of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time...
Books 1-10: The Top 10 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
The top 10 best nonfiction books of all time are...
1. We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published 1929 // 64 pages // Rated 4.4 over 251,000 reviews on Goodreads
2. The Constitution of the United States of America - Founding Fathers
Published 1787 // 30 pages // Rated 4.5 over 26,700 reviews on Goodreads
3. Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
Letters from a Stoic is a powerful and practical collection of 124 letters on how to become a more devoted stoic in every aspect of life, by stoic philosopher and tutor to emperor Nero, Seneca the Younger.
Published -49 // 256 pages // Rated 4.4 over 30,600 reviews on Goodreads
4. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Published 1963 // 106 pages // Rated 4.5 over 86,300 reviews on Goodreads
5. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Published 1952 // 191 pages // Rated 4.3 over 361,500 reviews on Goodreads
6. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
Published 1929 // 80 pages // Rated 4.3 over 71,000 reviews on Goodreads
7. The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason (FREE Summary)
The Richest Man in Babylon is THE classic parable on how to acquire money, how to not lose money and how to make money multiply - by serial entrepreneur and author, George S. Clason.
Published 1926 // 194 pages // Rated 4.3 over 161,800 reviews on Goodreads
8. As a Man Thinketh - James Allen (FREE Summary)
As a Man Thinketh is THE #1 ranking, uplifting, pocket-sized pep-talk on the power and importance of changing your thoughts as the cornerstone to changing your life - by philosopher and prolific self-help author, James Allen.
Published 1902 // 34 pages // Rated 4.3 over 73,200 reviews on Goodreads
9. Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Published 1980 // 384 pages // Rated 4.4 over 135,500 reviews on Goodreads
10. Apology - Plato (FREE Summary)
Apology contains three powerful speeches made by Socrates, a founder of Western Philosophy, in his final defence of wisdom, excellence and his life – by Socrates’s student, Aristotle’s teacher and eminent Greek philosopher, Plato.
Published -380 // 127 pages // Rated 4.2 over 46,600 reviews on Goodreads
Books 11-100: The Best Nonfiction Books to Read Next
Here are the next best nonfiction books from my database...
11. The Law - Frédéric Bastiat
Published 1849 // 61 pages // Rated 4.4 over 12,100 reviews on Goodreads
12. The Art of Living - Epictetus
The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Published 125 // 128 pages // Rated 4.2 over 21,000 reviews on Goodreads
13. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie (FREE Summary)
Published 1936 // 288 pages // Rated 4.2 over 832,500 reviews on Goodreads
14. The Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis
Published 1949 // 208 pages // Rated 4.4 over 20,200 reviews on Goodreads
15. The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln
Published 1863 // 32 pages // Rated 4.5 over 7,300 reviews on Goodreads
16. The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Published 1949 // 623 pages // Rated 4.2 over 112,000 reviews on Goodreads
17. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Published 1929 // 112 pages // Rated 4.2 over 165,800 reviews on Goodreads
18. Alcoholics Anonymous - Alcoholics Anonymous
Published 1939 // 576 pages // Rated 4.5 over 9,900 reviews on Goodreads
19. The Magic of Thinking Big - David J. Schwartz (FREE Summary)
Published 1959 // 320 pages // Rated 4.3 over 83,900 reviews on Goodreads
21. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (FREE Summary)
Published 1937 // 233 pages // Rated 4.2 over 284,500 reviews on Goodreads
22. The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzsche
Published 1882 // 398 pages // Rated 4.3 over 15,700 reviews on Goodreads
23. On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
Published -49 // 106 pages // Rated 4.2 over 28,600 reviews on Goodreads
24. Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
Published 1968 // 192 pages // Rated 4.3 over 31,000 reviews on Goodreads
25. The Complete Essays - Michel de Montaigne
Published 1572 // 1,344 pages // Rated 4.2 over 13,100 reviews on Goodreads
26. Annihilation of Caste - B.R. Ambedkar
Published 1936 // 415 pages // Rated 4.6 over 6,200 reviews on Goodreads
27. Law of Success - Napoleon Hill
Published 1925 // 1,035 pages // Rated 4.3 over 11,500 reviews on Goodreads
28. The Imitation of Christ - Thomas à Kempis
Published 1418 // 288 pages // Rated 4.2 over 22,100 reviews on Goodreads
29. The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Richard P. Feynman
Published 1964 // 1,552 pages // Rated 4.6 over 7,400 reviews on Goodreads
30. The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. (FREE Summary)
Published 1918 // 105 pages // Rated 4.2 over 80,800 reviews on Goodreads
31. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
An Indian History of the American West
Published 1970 // 509 pages // Rated 4.2 over 83,700 reviews on Goodreads
32. Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter
An Eternal Golden Braid
Published 1979 // 777 pages // Rated 4.3 over 47,200 reviews on Goodreads
33. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Published 1984 // 896 pages // Rated 4.5 over 14,800 reviews on Goodreads
34. Letter from the Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King Jr.
Published 1963 // 35 pages // Rated 4.7 over 6,300 reviews on Goodreads
35. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
A History of Nazi Germany
Published 1960 // 1,614 pages // Rated 4.2 over 121,900 reviews on Goodreads
36. How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling - Frank Bettger
Published 1947 // 192 pages // Rated 4.3 over 15,800 reviews on Goodreads
37. Capital, Vol. 1 - Karl Marx
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Published 1867 // 1,152 pages // Rated 4.3 over 10,500 reviews on Goodreads
38. The Red Book - C.G. Jung
Liber Novus
Published 1930 // 371 pages // Rated 4.5 over 4,600 reviews on Goodreads
39. The 5 Love Languages - Gary Chapman (FREE Summary)
The Secret to Love that Lasts
Published 1990 // 232 pages // Rated 4.3 over 374,000 reviews on Goodreads
40. The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
Published 1986 // 886 pages // Rated 4.4 over 19,200 reviews on Goodreads
41. Relativity - Albert Einstein
The Special and the General Theory
Published 1916 // 130 pages // Rated 4.2 over 20,000 reviews on Goodreads
42. Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm
Published 1941 // 301 pages // Rated 4.3 over 12,600 reviews on Goodreads
43. The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale (FREE Summary)
Published 1952 // 128 pages // Rated 4.2 over 100,600 reviews on Goodreads
44. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie (FREE Summary)
Published 1944 // 358 pages // Rated 4.2 over 96,500 reviews on Goodreads
45. Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz (FREE Summary)
A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
Published 1960 // 288 pages // Rated 4.2 over 21,700 reviews on Goodreads
46. The Strangest Secret - Earl Nightingale
Published 1957 // 34 pages // Rated 4.5 over 5,500 reviews on Goodreads
47. Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Published 1953 // 464 pages // Rated 4.3 over 13,800 reviews on Goodreads
48. Joy of Cooking - Irma S. Rombauer
Published 1931 // 1,200 pages // Rated 4.1 over 174,300 reviews on Goodreads
49. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Published 1970 // 138 pages // Rated 4.2 over 42,400 reviews on Goodreads
50. On Writing Well - William Zinsser (FREE Summary)
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Published 1976 // 336 pages // Rated 4.2 over 26,000 reviews on Goodreads
51. The Science of Getting Rich - Wallace D. Wattles (FREE Summary)
Published 1910 // 146 pages // Rated 4.1 over 37,700 reviews on Goodreads
52. The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
Published 1988 // 320 pages // Rated 4.3 over 49,000 reviews on Goodreads
53. Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
The Birth of the Prison
Published 1975 // 352 pages // Rated 4.2 over 29,400 reviews on Goodreads
54. Peace Is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh
The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Published 1990 // 160 pages // Rated 4.3 over 37,400 reviews on Goodreads
55. Influence - Robert B. Cialdini
The Psychology of Persuasion
Published 1984 // 320 pages // Rated 4.2 over 133,800 reviews on Goodreads
56. High Output Management - Andrew S. Grove
Published 1983 // 272 pages // Rated 4.3 over 16,200 reviews on Goodreads
57. The Guns of August - Barbara W. Tuchman
Published 1962 // 658 pages // Rated 4.2 over 70,100 reviews on Goodreads
58. Human, All Too Human - Friedrich Nietzsche
A Book for Free Spirits
Published 1878 // 428 pages // Rated 4.2 over 10,800 reviews on Goodreads
59. The Muqaddimah - Ibn Khaldun
An Introduction to History
Published 1377 // 480 pages // Rated 4.3 over 4,000 reviews on Goodreads
61. How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People - Les Giblin
Published 1956 // 192 pages // Rated 4.2 over 12,900 reviews on Goodreads
62. The World as Will and Representation Vol. 1 (TWaWaR, #1) - Arthur Schopenhauer
Published 1818 // 534 pages // Rated 4.2 over 9,500 reviews on Goodreads
63. Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude - Napoleon Hill
Published 1960 // 384 pages // Rated 4.3 over 10,300 reviews on Goodreads
64. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book - Better Homes and Gardens
Published 1953 // 576 pages // Rated 4.1 over 130,900 reviews on Goodreads
65. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Published 1988 // 212 pages // Rated 4.2 over 386,100 reviews on Goodreads
66. The Discourses - Epictetus
Published 108 // 384 pages // Rated 4.3 over 4,800 reviews on Goodreads
67. The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan W. Watts
Published 1966 // 163 pages // Rated 4.2 over 19,900 reviews on Goodreads
68. On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
Published 1887 // 367 pages // Rated 4.2 over 14,900 reviews on Goodreads
69. The State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin
Published 1917 // 116 pages // Rated 4.2 over 11,000 reviews on Goodreads
70. Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham
Principles and Technique
Published 1962 // 770 pages // Rated 4.3 over 8,700 reviews on Goodreads
71. Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
Published 1946 // 20 pages // Rated 4.3 over 6,400 reviews on Goodreads
72. The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
Published 1949 // 746 pages // Rated 4.2 over 37,300 reviews on Goodreads
73. The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis
Published 1960 // 192 pages // Rated 4.2 over 52,400 reviews on Goodreads
74. Euclid's Elements - Euclid
Published -290 // 499 pages // Rated 4.3 over 3,100 reviews on Goodreads
75. The Book of Chuang Tzu - Zhuangzi
Published -350 // 320 pages // Rated 4.4 over 2,500 reviews on Goodreads
76. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Published 1976 // 360 pages // Rated 4.2 over 164,600 reviews on Goodreads
77. Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Published 1946 // 218 pages // Rated 4.2 over 18,100 reviews on Goodreads
78. One Up On Wall Street - Peter Lynch
How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
Published 1988 // 304 pages // Rated 4.3 over 29,800 reviews on Goodreads
79. Man and His Symbols - C.G. Jung
Published 1964 // 415 pages // Rated 4.2 over 25,500 reviews on Goodreads
80. Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Published 1990 // 592 pages // Rated 4.3 over 34,700 reviews on Goodreads
81. Acres of Diamonds - Russell H. Conwell (FREE Summary)
Published 1892 // 68 pages // Rated 4.2 over 8,700 reviews on Goodreads
82. Animal Liberation - Peter Singer
Published 1975 // 352 pages // Rated 4.3 over 9,400 reviews on Goodreads
83. I Am That - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Published 1973 // 550 pages // Rated 4.4 over 6,300 reviews on Goodreads
84. The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
Published 1949 // 416 pages // Rated 4.1 over 38,300 reviews on Goodreads
85. Modern Man in Search of a Soul - C.G. Jung
Published 1931 // 244 pages // Rated 4.2 over 10,600 reviews on Goodreads
86. Spiritual Midwifery - Ina May Gaskin
Published 1975 // 482 pages // Rated 4.4 over 5,900 reviews on Goodreads
87. The Read-Aloud Handbook - Jim Trelease
Published 1982 // 432 pages // Rated 4.4 over 6,900 reviews on Goodreads
88. Fragments - Heraclitus
Published -500 // 97 pages // Rated 4.2 over 6,400 reviews on Goodreads
89. The Prize - Daniel Yergin
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Published 1991 // 885 pages // Rated 4.4 over 9,800 reviews on Goodreads
90. The Principia - Isaac Newton
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Published 1687 // 991 pages // Rated 4.2 over 4,600 reviews on Goodreads
91. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - C.G. Jung
Published 1959 // 550 pages // Rated 4.3 over 5,800 reviews on Goodreads
92. Honey for a Child's Heart - Gladys M. Hunt
The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life
Published 1969 // 251 pages // Rated 4.5 over 4,100 reviews on Goodreads
93. The Miracle of Mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh
An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Published 1975 // 140 pages // Rated 4.2 over 31,000 reviews on Goodreads
94. The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Science as a Candle in the Dark
Published 1996 // 459 pages // Rated 4.3 over 68,200 reviews on Goodreads
95. Unlimited Power - Anthony Robbins
The New Science Of Personal Achievement
Published 1986 // 448 pages // Rated 4.2 over 33,400 reviews on Goodreads
96. The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
Published 1940 // 162 pages // Rated 4.1 over 56,500 reviews on Goodreads
97. Taking Charge of Your Fertility - Toni Weschler (FREE Summary)
The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
Published 1995 // 536 pages // Rated 4.5 over 10,500 reviews on Goodreads
98. A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Published 1945 // 906 pages // Rated 4.1 over 36,800 reviews on Goodreads
99. The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan W. Watts
A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Published 1951 // 152 pages // Rated 4.2 over 20,800 reviews on Goodreads
100. The Way of Zen - Alan W. Watts
Published 1957 // 236 pages // Rated 4.2 over 19,400 reviews on Goodreads
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books (by Publication Date)
One of my favourite ways to work through a reading list (both fiction and non-fiction) is chronologically.
It’s amazing to trace the development of and flow of influences in a subject.
So – for the nerds out there like me – here’s a bonus list of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time above, organised from earliest to latest publication date…
1. Fragments - Heraclitus
Published -500 // 97 pages // Rated 4.2 over 6,400 reviews on Goodreads
3. Apology - Plato (FREE Summary)
Published -380 // 127 pages // Rated 4.2 over 46,600 reviews on Goodreads
4. The Book of Chuang Tzu - Zhuangzi
Published -350 // 320 pages // Rated 4.4 over 2,500 reviews on Goodreads
5. Euclid's Elements - Euclid
Published -290 // 499 pages // Rated 4.3 over 3,100 reviews on Goodreads
6. Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
Published -49 // 256 pages // Rated 4.4 over 30,600 reviews on Goodreads
7. On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
Published -49 // 106 pages // Rated 4.2 over 28,600 reviews on Goodreads
8. The Discourses - Epictetus
Published 108 // 384 pages // Rated 4.3 over 4,800 reviews on Goodreads
9. The Art of Living - Epictetus
The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Published 125 // 128 pages // Rated 4.2 over 21,000 reviews on Goodreads
10. The Muqaddimah - Ibn Khaldun
An Introduction to History
Published 1377 // 480 pages // Rated 4.3 over 4,000 reviews on Goodreads
11. The Imitation of Christ - Thomas à Kempis
Published 1418 // 288 pages // Rated 4.2 over 22,100 reviews on Goodreads
12. The Complete Essays - Michel de Montaigne
Published 1572 // 1,344 pages // Rated 4.2 over 13,100 reviews on Goodreads
13. The Principia - Isaac Newton
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Published 1687 // 991 pages // Rated 4.2 over 4,600 reviews on Goodreads
14. The Constitution of the United States of America - Founding Fathers
Published 1787 // 30 pages // Rated 4.5 over 26,700 reviews on Goodreads
15. The World as Will and Representation Vol. 1 (TWaWaR, #1) - Arthur Schopenhauer
Published 1818 // 534 pages // Rated 4.2 over 9,500 reviews on Goodreads
16. The Law - Frédéric Bastiat
Published 1849 // 61 pages // Rated 4.4 over 12,100 reviews on Goodreads
17. The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln
Published 1863 // 32 pages // Rated 4.5 over 7,300 reviews on Goodreads
18. Capital, Vol. 1 - Karl Marx
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Published 1867 // 1,152 pages // Rated 4.3 over 10,500 reviews on Goodreads
19. Human, All Too Human - Friedrich Nietzsche
A Book for Free Spirits
Published 1878 // 428 pages // Rated 4.2 over 10,800 reviews on Goodreads
20. The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzsche
Published 1882 // 398 pages // Rated 4.3 over 15,700 reviews on Goodreads
21. On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
Published 1887 // 367 pages // Rated 4.2 over 14,900 reviews on Goodreads
22. Acres of Diamonds - Russell H. Conwell (FREE Summary)
Published 1892 // 68 pages // Rated 4.2 over 8,700 reviews on Goodreads
23. As a Man Thinketh - James Allen (FREE Summary)
Published 1902 // 34 pages // Rated 4.3 over 73,200 reviews on Goodreads
24. The Science of Getting Rich - Wallace D. Wattles (FREE Summary)
Published 1910 // 146 pages // Rated 4.1 over 37,700 reviews on Goodreads
25. Relativity - Albert Einstein
The Special and the General Theory
Published 1916 // 130 pages // Rated 4.2 over 20,000 reviews on Goodreads
26. The State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin
Published 1917 // 116 pages // Rated 4.2 over 11,000 reviews on Goodreads
27. The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. (FREE Summary)
Published 1918 // 105 pages // Rated 4.2 over 80,800 reviews on Goodreads
28. Law of Success - Napoleon Hill
Published 1925 // 1,035 pages // Rated 4.3 over 11,500 reviews on Goodreads
29. The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason (FREE Summary)
Published 1926 // 194 pages // Rated 4.3 over 161,800 reviews on Goodreads
30. We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published 1929 // 64 pages // Rated 4.4 over 251,000 reviews on Goodreads
31. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
Published 1929 // 80 pages // Rated 4.3 over 71,000 reviews on Goodreads
32. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Published 1929 // 112 pages // Rated 4.2 over 165,800 reviews on Goodreads
33. The Red Book - C.G. Jung
Liber Novus
Published 1930 // 371 pages // Rated 4.5 over 4,600 reviews on Goodreads
34. Joy of Cooking - Irma S. Rombauer
Published 1931 // 1,200 pages // Rated 4.1 over 174,300 reviews on Goodreads
35. Modern Man in Search of a Soul - C.G. Jung
Published 1931 // 244 pages // Rated 4.2 over 10,600 reviews on Goodreads
36. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie (FREE Summary)
Published 1936 // 288 pages // Rated 4.2 over 832,500 reviews on Goodreads
37. Annihilation of Caste - B.R. Ambedkar
Published 1936 // 415 pages // Rated 4.6 over 6,200 reviews on Goodreads
38. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (FREE Summary)
Published 1937 // 233 pages // Rated 4.2 over 284,500 reviews on Goodreads
39. Alcoholics Anonymous - Alcoholics Anonymous
Published 1939 // 576 pages // Rated 4.5 over 9,900 reviews on Goodreads
40. The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
Published 1940 // 162 pages // Rated 4.1 over 56,500 reviews on Goodreads
41. Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm
Published 1941 // 301 pages // Rated 4.3 over 12,600 reviews on Goodreads
42. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie (FREE Summary)
Published 1944 // 358 pages // Rated 4.2 over 96,500 reviews on Goodreads
43. A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Published 1945 // 906 pages // Rated 4.1 over 36,800 reviews on Goodreads
44. Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
Published 1946 // 20 pages // Rated 4.3 over 6,400 reviews on Goodreads
45. Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Published 1946 // 218 pages // Rated 4.2 over 18,100 reviews on Goodreads
46. How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling - Frank Bettger
Published 1947 // 192 pages // Rated 4.3 over 15,800 reviews on Goodreads
47. The Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis
Published 1949 // 208 pages // Rated 4.4 over 20,200 reviews on Goodreads
48. The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
Published 1949 // 623 pages // Rated 4.2 over 112,000 reviews on Goodreads
49. The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
Published 1949 // 746 pages // Rated 4.2 over 37,300 reviews on Goodreads
50. The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
Published 1949 // 416 pages // Rated 4.1 over 38,300 reviews on Goodreads
51. The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan W. Watts
A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Published 1951 // 152 pages // Rated 4.2 over 20,800 reviews on Goodreads
52. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Published 1952 // 191 pages // Rated 4.3 over 361,500 reviews on Goodreads
53. The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale (FREE Summary)
Published 1952 // 128 pages // Rated 4.2 over 100,600 reviews on Goodreads
54. Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Published 1953 // 464 pages // Rated 4.3 over 13,800 reviews on Goodreads
55. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book - Better Homes and Gardens
Published 1953 // 576 pages // Rated 4.1 over 130,900 reviews on Goodreads
56. How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People - Les Giblin
Published 1956 // 192 pages // Rated 4.2 over 12,900 reviews on Goodreads
57. The Strangest Secret - Earl Nightingale
Published 1957 // 34 pages // Rated 4.5 over 5,500 reviews on Goodreads
58. The Way of Zen - Alan W. Watts
Published 1957 // 236 pages // Rated 4.2 over 19,400 reviews on Goodreads
59. The Magic of Thinking Big - David J. Schwartz (FREE Summary)
Published 1959 // 320 pages // Rated 4.3 over 83,900 reviews on Goodreads
60. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - C.G. Jung
Published 1959 // 550 pages // Rated 4.3 over 5,800 reviews on Goodreads
61. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
A History of Nazi Germany
Published 1960 // 1,614 pages // Rated 4.2 over 121,900 reviews on Goodreads
62. Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz (FREE Summary)
A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
Published 1960 // 288 pages // Rated 4.2 over 21,700 reviews on Goodreads
63. Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude - Napoleon Hill
Published 1960 // 384 pages // Rated 4.3 over 10,300 reviews on Goodreads
64. The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis
Published 1960 // 192 pages // Rated 4.2 over 52,400 reviews on Goodreads
65. The Guns of August - Barbara W. Tuchman
Published 1962 // 658 pages // Rated 4.2 over 70,100 reviews on Goodreads
66. Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham
Principles and Technique
Published 1962 // 770 pages // Rated 4.3 over 8,700 reviews on Goodreads
67. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Published 1963 // 106 pages // Rated 4.5 over 86,300 reviews on Goodreads
68. Letter from the Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King Jr.
Published 1963 // 35 pages // Rated 4.7 over 6,300 reviews on Goodreads
69. The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Richard P. Feynman
Published 1964 // 1,552 pages // Rated 4.6 over 7,400 reviews on Goodreads
70. Man and His Symbols - C.G. Jung
Published 1964 // 415 pages // Rated 4.2 over 25,500 reviews on Goodreads
71. The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan W. Watts
Published 1966 // 163 pages // Rated 4.2 over 19,900 reviews on Goodreads
72. Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
Published 1968 // 192 pages // Rated 4.3 over 31,000 reviews on Goodreads
73. Honey for a Child's Heart - Gladys M. Hunt
The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life
Published 1969 // 251 pages // Rated 4.5 over 4,100 reviews on Goodreads
74. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
An Indian History of the American West
Published 1970 // 509 pages // Rated 4.2 over 83,700 reviews on Goodreads
75. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Published 1970 // 138 pages // Rated 4.2 over 42,400 reviews on Goodreads
77. I Am That - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Published 1973 // 550 pages // Rated 4.4 over 6,300 reviews on Goodreads
78. Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
The Birth of the Prison
Published 1975 // 352 pages // Rated 4.2 over 29,400 reviews on Goodreads
79. Animal Liberation - Peter Singer
Published 1975 // 352 pages // Rated 4.3 over 9,400 reviews on Goodreads
80. Spiritual Midwifery - Ina May Gaskin
Published 1975 // 482 pages // Rated 4.4 over 5,900 reviews on Goodreads
81. The Miracle of Mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh
An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Published 1975 // 140 pages // Rated 4.2 over 31,000 reviews on Goodreads
82. On Writing Well - William Zinsser (FREE Summary)
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Published 1976 // 336 pages // Rated 4.2 over 26,000 reviews on Goodreads
83. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Published 1976 // 360 pages // Rated 4.2 over 164,600 reviews on Goodreads
84. Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter
An Eternal Golden Braid
Published 1979 // 777 pages // Rated 4.3 over 47,200 reviews on Goodreads
85. Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Published 1980 // 384 pages // Rated 4.4 over 135,500 reviews on Goodreads
86. The Read-Aloud Handbook - Jim Trelease
Published 1982 // 432 pages // Rated 4.4 over 6,900 reviews on Goodreads
87. High Output Management - Andrew S. Grove
Published 1983 // 272 pages // Rated 4.3 over 16,200 reviews on Goodreads
88. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Published 1984 // 896 pages // Rated 4.5 over 14,800 reviews on Goodreads
89. Influence - Robert B. Cialdini
The Psychology of Persuasion
Published 1984 // 320 pages // Rated 4.2 over 133,800 reviews on Goodreads
90. The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
Published 1986 // 886 pages // Rated 4.4 over 19,200 reviews on Goodreads
91. Unlimited Power - Anthony Robbins
The New Science Of Personal Achievement
Published 1986 // 448 pages // Rated 4.2 over 33,400 reviews on Goodreads
92. The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
Published 1988 // 320 pages // Rated 4.3 over 49,000 reviews on Goodreads
93. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Published 1988 // 212 pages // Rated 4.2 over 386,100 reviews on Goodreads
94. One Up On Wall Street - Peter Lynch
How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
Published 1988 // 304 pages // Rated 4.3 over 29,800 reviews on Goodreads
95. The 5 Love Languages - Gary Chapman (FREE Summary)
The Secret to Love that Lasts
Published 1990 // 232 pages // Rated 4.3 over 374,000 reviews on Goodreads
96. Peace Is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh
The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Published 1990 // 160 pages // Rated 4.3 over 37,400 reviews on Goodreads
97. Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Published 1990 // 592 pages // Rated 4.3 over 34,700 reviews on Goodreads
98. The Prize - Daniel Yergin
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Published 1991 // 885 pages // Rated 4.4 over 9,800 reviews on Goodreads
99. Taking Charge of Your Fertility - Toni Weschler (FREE Summary)
The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
Published 1995 // 536 pages // Rated 4.5 over 10,500 reviews on Goodreads
100. The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Science as a Candle in the Dark
Published 1996 // 459 pages // Rated 4.3 over 68,200 reviews on Goodreads
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