Top 100 Non-Fiction Books to Read at least Once

 

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It is always said, “Books are the ocean of knowledge.” They tell you the difference between reality and imagination. On one hand, where fiction books are an escape to reality, non-fiction books are like a mirror to your soul. They demand you’re at most attentive and understanding what a book is trying to say.

Non-fiction books bring out the best in us because they show you the real world. How you can deal with situations and challenges that life may throw upon you.

Hence, for all the book geeks, we are here for you with 100 must-read non-fiction books that will help you meet with the inner you. Which will force you to look beyond what is already here, far beyond the illusion of the perfect world, where everything is practical.

S.No	Book Title	Author's Name
1	A brief history of time	Stephen Hawking
2	I know why the caged bird sings	Maya Angelou
3	The man who mistook his wife for a hat	Oliver Sacks
4	Hiroshima	John Hersey
5	The beauty myth	Naomi wolf
6	Endurance	Alfred Lansing
7	Night	Elie Wiesel
8	Alive	Piers Paul Read
9	A moveable feast	Ernest Hemingway
10	Kitchen Confidential	Anthony Bourdain
11	Dreams from my Father	Barack Obama
12	The Road to Wigan pier	George Orwell
13	Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer
14	Wild Swans	Jung Chang
15	Life on the Mississippi	Mark Twain
16	The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X
17	Omnivore's Dilemma	Micheal Pollan
18	No Logo	Naomi Klein
19	Bossypants	Tina Fey
20	Goodbye to All that	Robert Graves
21	The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe
22	In Cold Blood	Truman Capote
23	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Dee Brown
24	Out of Africa	Isak Dinesan
25	H is for Hawk	Helen Mcdonald
26	Never Cry Wolf	Farley Mowat
27	The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank
28	Fever Pitch	Nick Hornby
29	We Should All be Feminists	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
30	Bad Blood	Lorna Sage
31	How to Cook a Wolf	MFK Fisher
32	Alexander Hamilton	Ron Chernow
33	Blink	Malcolm Gladwell
34	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell
35	How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie
36	If They Came in the Morning	Angela Y. Davis
37	Friday Night Lights	H.G. Bissinger
38	The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
39	Mastering the Art of French Cooking	Julia Child
40	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand
41	I'll be Gone in the Dark	Nichelle McNamara
42	Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
43	The Second Sex	Simone de Beauboir
44	Ariel	Sylvia Plath
45	The Elements of Style	William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
46	A room of one's own	Virginia Woolf
47	Speak, Memory	Vladimir Nabokov
48	The Lives of a Cell	Lewis Thomas
49	Black Boy	Richard Wright
50	The Civil War	Shelby Foote
51	The Nature and Destiny of Sun	Barabara Nielbuhr
52	An American Dilemma	Gunnar Myrdal
53	The Mirror and the Lamp	Meyer Howard Abrams
54	The Ants	Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson
55	The Theory of Justice	John Rawls
56	Philosophy and Civilization	John Dewey
57	On Growth and Opinions	D'Arcy Thompson
58	Ideas And Opinions	Albert Einstein
59	Black lamb and Grey Falcon	Rebecca West
60	Children of Crisis	Robery Coles
61	The Affluent Society	John Kenneth Galbraith
62	The Great Bridge	David McCullough
63	Patriotic Gore	Edmund Wilson
64	Working	Studs Terkel
65	Darkness Visible	William Styron
66	The Second World War	Winston Churchill
67	Jefferson and his Time	Dumas Malone
68	The House Of Morgan	Ron Chernow
69	The Sweet Science	A.J. Liebling
70	The Art of Memory	Frances A. Yates
71	A Preface to Morals	Walter Lippmann
72	The Gate of Heavenly peace	Jonathan D. Spence
73	The Rise of the west	William H. McNeill
74	The Gigantic Gospels	Elaine Pagels
75	James Joyce	Richard Ellmann
76	Florence Nightingale	Cecil Woodham-Smith
77	The City in History	Lewis Mumford
78	Why we Can't Wait	Martin Luther King Jr.
79	The Face of Battle	John Keegan
80	Vermeer	Lawrence Gowing
81	A Bright Shining Lee	Neil Sheehan
82	This Boy's Life	Tobias Wolff
83	Shadow and Act	Ralph Ellison
84	The Journalist and the Murderer	Janet Malcolm
85	The Taming of Chance	Ian Hacking
86	Operating instructions	Anne Lamott
87	Melbourne	Lord David Cecil
88	The Contours of American History	William Appleman Williams
89	The Power Broker	Robert A. Caro
90	Birthday Letters	Ted Hughes
91	Dispatches	Michael Herr
92	The Selfish Gene	Richard Dawkins
93	North	Seamus Heaney
94	The Feminine Mystique	Betty Friedan
95	A Grief Observed	CS Lewis
96	Notes of a Native Son	James Bladwin
97	The Hedgehog and the Fox	Isaiah Berlin
98	Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett
99	The Great Tradition	FR Leavis
100	Sapiens	Yuval Noah Harari

 

Hope you will find this interesting and the motive will be achieved for which these books have been written. Happy Reading!!!

 

Written By – Anamika Malik