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- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Buy on Amazon. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful history of racial violence in the United States — and what it means to be black in this country today.
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Buy on Amazon. A disarming “biography” of disease, The Emperor of All Maladies chronicles thousands of years of people grappling with the terrifying specter of cancer.
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. Buy on Amazon. When the next major mass extinction hits the planet, as scientists foretell it soon might, humanity will be the victim — and the perpetrator.
- How to Survive a Plague by David France. Buy on Amazon. David France has been one of the key chroniclers of the AIDS epidemic in the United States since its beginnings.
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou.
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser.
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time. This is one of the 305 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. The book explores the concept of the sixth extinction, suggesting that we are currently in the midst of it due to human activity.
The Guardian's list of the greatest non-fiction books of all time. here's their description: After keen debate at the Guardian's books desk, this is our list of the very best factual writing, organised by category, and then by date.
May 1, 2024 · From autobiographies to popular science, broaden your horizons with the best non-fiction books of 2023 & 2024, and the must-read non-fiction books of all time.
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The 100 best non-fiction books of all time judged by a panel of historians, authors, publishers, and experts for the National Review Magazine.
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As this decade is slowly nearing an end, recently Slate compiled a list of definitive non-fiction books published in the last 25 years. From the best of journalistic reporting to moving memoirs to expansive political commentaries, see our picks from the list below.
