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Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
Non-fiction that you enjoyed reading. Books that changed your thinking, changed your mind, enlightened you, helped you move ahead, helped you heal, in short, made a difference. Just plain, good non-fiction.
Note: the 21st Century began on January 1st, 2001. Books originally published in 2000 or before are not eligible.
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Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
Best Horror Books of the 21st Century
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Note: the 21st Century began on January 1st, 2001. Books originally published in 2000 or before are not eligible.
See also
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Best Books of the 21st Century
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
Best Horror Books of the 21st Century
Best Science Fiction Books of the 21st Century
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THE BOOK THAT HAPPENED – Is Reality but Sheer Coincidence?
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Attila Pergel (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
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Lynne Olson (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 8,536 ratings
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Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
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Archimedes Muzenda (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Anxiety
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Healthcare From The Trenches: An Insider Account of the Complex Barriers of U.S. Healthcare from the Providers and Patients' Perspective
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4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo
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Eliott Behar (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Financial Literacy for Beginners: Budgeting for Dummies (Nonfiction for Beginners)
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4.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
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Mark Schatzker (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 9,072 ratings
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 40,131 ratings
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THE EGO PILL: Why The Ego That Feeds Us Always Consumes Us
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Ramzi Najjar (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
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Erica Hannickel (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Washington: A Life
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4.16 avg rating — 80,706 ratings
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No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
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4.12 avg rating — 28,503 ratings
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
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4.41 avg rating — 5,545 ratings
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
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Bill Browder (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 105,372 ratings
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 158,438 ratings
score: 279,
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The Forever War
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4.13 avg rating — 11,354 ratings
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The 300: The Inside Story of the Missile Defenders Guarding America Against Nuclear Attack
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3.64 avg rating — 114 ratings
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All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
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Mel Brooks (Author/Narrator)
4.24 avg rating — 15,020 ratings
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Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
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4.41 avg rating — 4,959 ratings
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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3.58 avg rating — 33,450 ratings
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Auschwitz
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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Gretchen McCulloch (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 12,322 ratings
score: 264,
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Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
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Marty Makary (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 1,655 ratings
score: 264,
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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Karen Abbott (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 16,951 ratings
score: 263,
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 38,014 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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Lisa Kaltenegger (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
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Phuc Tran (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 9,676 ratings
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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Kurt Andersen (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 8,735 ratings
score: 261,
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 19,087 ratings
score: 261,
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His Excellency: George Washington
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Napoleon: A Life
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Permanent Record
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And the Pursuit of Happiness
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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3.94 avg rating — 47,671 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
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Nancy Goldstone (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 4,579 ratings
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
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4.04 avg rating — 4,285 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 10,558 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
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Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
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4.23 avg rating — 4,799 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
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William Kuhn (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 955 ratings
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 42,931 ratings
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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4.03 avg rating — 139,425 ratings
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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David Attenborough (Author/Narrator)
4.50 avg rating — 33,460 ratings
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
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Brother, I'm Dying
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
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4.44 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
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David O. Stewart (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 2,572 ratings
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Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
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3.94 avg rating — 709 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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4.38 avg rating — 30,677 ratings
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We Are Water Protectors
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Carole Lindstrom (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 8,631 ratings
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
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Jenny Nordberg (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 14,080 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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Blaine Harden (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 71,209 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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Liza Mundy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 29,437 ratings
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Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
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Leslie Maitland (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,105 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.66 avg rating — 139,074 ratings
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SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
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4.06 avg rating — 18,062 ratings
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
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3.82 avg rating — 1,701 ratings
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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Sam Kean (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 13,549 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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4.43 avg rating — 9,776 ratings
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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David Grann (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 191,431 ratings
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
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John Medina (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 34,259 ratings
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The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 58,031 ratings
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Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
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Tom Carter (Editor)
3.59 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Spirit Filled Words: To Awaken the Sleeping Giant
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Jessica Cager (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Constant Longing - Memoirs of a Palestinian Woman
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The Masculine Mind: Alpha Male Life Lessons on Careers, Money, Relationships & Women
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Dylan Thrasher (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad
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Saqib Noor (Goodreads Author)
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Poems from a Runaway
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Ben Westwood (Goodreads Author)
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Machine Learning with Neural Networks: An In-depth Visual Introduction with Python: Make Your Own Neural Network in Python: A Simple Guide on Machine Learning with Neural Networks.
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Letters From The Universe: The Framework of Everything and a Cosmic Guidance to Love, Life and Beyond
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Geo Douglas (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
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David A. Taylor (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Fluid: The Approach Applied by Geniuses Over Centuries
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Ashish Jaiswal (Goodreads Author)
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Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy
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Parth Detroja (Goodreads Author)
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Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus
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Just Be: Transform Your Life and Live as Infinity
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Suresh Ramaswamy (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Power of the Socratic Classroom: Students. Questions. Dialogue. Learning.
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Charles Ames Fischer (Goodreads Author)
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Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential
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Roman Russo (Goodreads Author)
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Strong
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
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Rebecca Renner (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 3,177 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel, despite being terrific, was first published in 1997.
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Removed for being first published before 2000:Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela (1990)
Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand (1999)
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (1980)
Natasha's Story, by Michael Nicholson (1997)
Song for the Blue Ocean, by Carl Safina (1998)
Gay New York, by George Chauncey (1994)
In Pursuit of Happiness, by Mark Kingwell (1998)
We Die Alone, by David Howarth (1955)
Removed for being fiction:
11/22/63, by Stephen King
Honolulu, by Alan Brennert
Killing Rommel, by Steven Pressfield
I have removed six books from the top 100 that were ineligible by virtue of publication dates before January 1st, 2001.
I removed The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Homicide. Both were published prior to 1/1/2001. Read them both and they are great books!
Removed, for not being published in the 21st century:Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995)
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 (1999)
Removed for not being first published in the 21st century:A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1918)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1991)
Letters, 1925-1975 (1998)
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000)
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (2000)
Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg (1999)
George Eliot: The Last Victorian (1999)
Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama (1977)
The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot (1996)
The True History of the Elephant Man (1980)
The Great Escape (1950)
Lakota Woman (1990)
Means of Ascent (1990)
A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn (1985)
The Life of Elizabeth I (1996)
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (1988)
King Leopold's Ghost (1998)
Paris to the Moon (2000)
James Joyce (1959)
The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (2000)
Anne Frank Remembered (1987)
Warranted Christian Belief (1999)
Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (1998)
The Lost Daughters of China (2000)
The Animal Rights Handbook: Everyday Ways to Save Animal Lives (1990)
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (1999)
Discipline Without Punishment: The Proven Strategy That Turns Problem Employees into Superior Performers (1995)
Herk: Hero of the Skies: The Story of the Lockheed C-130 and Its Adventures Around the World ... (1983)
Knowledge and Its Limits (2000)
Multiple Sclerosis: A Guide for Patients and Their Families (1983)
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe (2000)
The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1991)
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (1985)
The Eat Right 4 Your Type (1991)
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (1994)
Yoga Mind and Body (1996)
The Lost Wolves of Japan (2000)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1996)
From Difficult to Disturbed: Understanding and Managing Dysfunctional Employees (1905)
Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics (1956)
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine (1990)
Tracking The Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery (1994)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (1997)
Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences (1993)
Historia de la Economia (1987)
A Measure of Danger (1991)
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998)
The Art of Happiness (1998)
The description clearly says "Books originally published in 2000 or before are not eligible."
Booklovinglady wrote: "Removed for not being first published in the 21st century:Booklovinglady - Thank you for all your hard work! I think this is an important list and your diligence is appreciated.
Elyse wrote: "Booklovinglady wrote: "Removed for not being first published in the 21st century:Booklovinglady - Thank you for all your hard work! I think this is an important list and your diligence is apprecia..."
Thanks Elyse 😊
Consider yourself reported for spam, "Kardi."
Consider yourself flagged, you disgusting spammer.
#1180 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman = great book, but published in 1985.Also, A Visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer for fiction, thus doesn't belong here.
Duplicates #339 & #366: The God Delusion (and/or #1455)
Vicki wrote: "#1180 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman = great book, but published in 1985.Also, A Visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer for fiction, thus doesn't belong here."
Thank you for the information. Deleted both.
The system found and removed 4 duplicates
Deleted Desert Flower - originally published 1998
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