KIB Non-Fiction Book Cloud

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Knowledge is Beautiful Non-Fiction Reading list based on Guardian, Time Literary Supplement, NYTimes.com, AskMetafilter.com, Pulitzer.org, ModernLibrary.com, NationalReview, Time, GoodReads.com
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Mere Christianity
por C. S. Lewis
26,189 membros
219 críticas
½ 4.3
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
por Jared Diamond
24,985 membros
376 críticas
4.1
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3
In Cold Blood
por Truman Capote
23,714 membros
466 críticas
4.1
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4
The Prince
por Niccolò Machiavelli
23,609 membros
253 críticas
½ 3.7
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5
The Art of War
por Sun Tzu
23,090 membros
253 críticas
3.8
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6
Confessions
por Saint Augustine
22,411 membros
157 críticas
3.9
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7
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
por Robert M. Pirsig
18,781 membros
283 críticas
3.8
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Explicações
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8
On Writing
por Stephen King
18,541 membros
516 críticas
4.2
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9
The Communist Manifesto
por Karl Marx
15,078 membros
137 críticas
½ 3.5
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10
Walden
por Henry David Thoreau
14,108 membros
191 críticas
3.8
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11
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
por Eric Schlosser
12,486 membros
171 críticas
3.9
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12
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
por Barbara Ehrenreich
10,874 membros
212 críticas
½ 3.7
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13
The Selfish Gene
por Richard Dawkins
10,830 membros
119 críticas
½ 4.3
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14
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
por Richard Feynman
9,860 membros
172 críticas
4.2
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15
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
por Malcolm X
9,779 membros
123 críticas
½ 4.3
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16
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
por Barack Obama
9,494 membros
211 críticas
3.9
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17
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
por Thomas S. Kuhn
8,079 membros
92 críticas
4
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18
A Brief History of Time
por Stephen Hawking
6,793 membros
99 críticas
4
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19
The Guns of August
por Barbara W. Tuchman
6,601 membros
125 críticas
½ 4.3
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Explicações
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20
Critique of Pure Reason
por Immanuel Kant
6,568 membros
44 críticas
3.9
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21
The Souls of Black Folk
por W. E. B. Du Bois
5,247 membros
68 críticas
4.2
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22
Out of Africa
por Isak Dinesen
5,221 membros
98 críticas
3.9
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23
Black Boy
por Richard Wright
5,199 membros
68 críticas
4
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24
The Varieties of Religious Experience
por William James
5,186 membros
36 críticas
3.9
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25
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays
por Michel de Montaigne
4,796 membros
48 críticas
½ 4.3
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26
The Origins of Totalitarianism
por Hannah Arendt
3,577 membros
36 críticas
4.2
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27
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
por Richard Rhodes
3,518 membros
53 críticas
½ 4.5
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28
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
por James D. Watson
3,026 membros
44 críticas
3.8
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29
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
por Lewis Thomas
2,069 membros
31 críticas
4.1
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Explicações
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30
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
por John Maynard Keynes
1,760 membros
12 críticas
½ 3.6
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31
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia
por Rebecca West
1,697 membros
23 críticas
4.1
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32
The Civil War: A Narrative
por Shelby Foote
1,519 membros
14 críticas
½ 4.6
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33
The Second World War
por John Keegan
1,376 membros
11 críticas
4
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34
The Constitution of Liberty
por F. A. Hayek
967 membros
10 críticas
½ 4.3
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35
The Open Society and Its Enemies
por Karl Popper
895 membros
13 críticas
½ 4.3
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36
The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play in Two Acts
por Frances Goodrich
773 membros
12 críticas
4.1
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37
Economy and Society [complete]
por Max Weber
576 membros
3 críticas
½ 4.3
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38
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
por Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
532 membros
3 críticas
4.1
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39
The Liberal Imagination
por Lionel Trilling
530 membros
5 críticas
3.8
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40
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
por Robert Coles
153 membros
½ 4.6
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41
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
por Gunnar Myrdal
140 membros
2 críticas
3.8
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