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Rating
Readers Count
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#2
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Anne Frank
4.05932 reads
#3
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle
  • Jeannette Walls
4.18275 reads
#4
Stop Pretending
Stop Pretending
  • Sonya Sones
44 reads
#5
Trailing
Trailing
  • Kristin Louise Duncombe
41 read
#6
At the Heart of the White Rose
At the Heart of the White Rose
  • Hans Scholl
  • Sophie Scholl
  • J. Maxwell Brownjohn (Translator)
00 reads
#7
Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
  • Martin Pistorius
  • Megan Lloyd Davies
01 read
#8
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
  • Anne Lamott
4.19167 reads
#9
Not Without My Sister
Not Without My Sister
  • Kristina Jones
  • Celeste Jones
  • Juliana Buhring
33 reads
#10
The Wilder life my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie
The Wilder life my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie
  • Wendy McClure
3.756 reads
#11
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  • Anne Fadiman
4.1133 reads
#12
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
  • Susannah Cahalan
3.98113 reads
#13
Raising Abel
Raising Abel
  • Carolyn Nash
41 read
#14
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking
  • Julia Bascom
4.52 reads
#15
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
  • Randall Munroe
4.24436 reads
#16
A Midwife's Tale
A Midwife's Tale
  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
4.334 reads
#17
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Bill Bryson
4.23393 reads
#18
Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon
  • S. C. Gwynne
4.0235 reads
#19
Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View
Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View
  • Jill Elizabeth Nelson
4.52 reads
#20
Adulthood Is a Myth
Adulthood Is a Myth
  • Sarah Andersen
4.23114 reads
#21
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
  • John Barylick
00 reads
#22
The Ship: Retracing Cook's Endeavor Voyage
The Ship: Retracing Cook's Endeavor Voyage
  • Simon Baker
41 read
#23
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
  • Sue Klebold
4.1826 reads
#24
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
  • J.D. Vance
3.48229 reads
#25
The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty
The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty
  • Elizabeth L. Silver
41 read
#26
When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air
  • Paul Kalanithi
4.41395 reads
#27
Happiness: A Memoir
Happiness: A Memoir
  • Heather Harpham
00 reads
#28
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
  • Allie Brosh
4.19216 reads
#29
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
  • Julie Sondra Decker
4.334 reads
#30
Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
  • Ben Reiter
3.755 reads
#31
It's Not Yet Dark
It's Not Yet Dark
  • Simon Fitzmaurice
00 reads
#32
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood
  • Truman Capote
4.14343 reads
#33
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
  • Douglas Preston
3.9860 reads
#34
Life on Mars
Life on Mars
  • Tracy K. Smith
3.3820 reads
#35
The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City
  • Erik Larson
4.03390 reads
#36
Devotions
Devotions
  • Mary Oliver
4.4232 reads
#37
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  • Michelle McNamara
4.06249 reads
#38
The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
  • Peter Brannen
3.7924 reads
#39
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  • Elizabeth Kolbert
4.0195 reads
#40
The Hidden Life of Trees
The Hidden Life of Trees
  • Peter Wohlleben
3.55 reads
#41
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
  • Elizabeth M. Norman
41 read
#42
An American Sunrise: Poems
An American Sunrise: Poems
  • Joy Harjo
3.8914 reads
#43
Night
Night
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.34531 reads
#44
Breath
Breath
  • James Nestor
3.81115 reads
#45
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Maya Angelou
4.15197 reads
#46
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Rebecca Skloot
4.1638 reads
#47
Cover 6

The Day the World Ended

The Day the World Ended
  • Gordon Thomas
  • Max Morgan-Witts
00 reads
#48
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
  • Erik Larson
42 reads
#49
The Barefoot Woman
The Barefoot Woman
  • Scholastique Mukasonga
  • Jordan Stump (Translator)
51 read
#50
A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
  • Adam Rutherford
3.7327 reads
#51
I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died
  • Jennette McCurdy
4.51,069 reads
#52
I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography
I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography
  • Jackie Robinson
43 reads
#53
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
  • Suzanne Simard
4.52 reads
#54
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
  • Annalee Newitz
42 reads
#55
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
  • Philip Plait
4.673 reads
#56
Cover 7

1177 B.C.

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated
  • Eric H. Cline
31 read
#57
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
  • Cynthia Barnett
34 reads
#58
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
  • Mike Duncan
4.1922 reads
#59
Cover 4

Otherlands

Otherlands: A World in the Making
  • Thomas Halliday
00 reads
#60
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
  • Jonathan Kennedy
3.9114 reads
#61
Cover 5

The Salt Path

The Salt Path: A Memoir
  • Raynor Winn
4.333 reads
#62
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The Art of Taking It Easy

The Art of Taking It Easy
  • Brian King
3.334 reads
#63
Cover 5

The Wild Silence

The Wild Silence: A Memoir
  • Raynor Winn
00 reads
#64
Unruly Places
Unruly Places
  • Alastair Bonnett
3.55 reads
#65
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
  • Gaia Vince
41 read
#66
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
  • Edward Humes
4.52 reads
#67
Four Lost Cities
Four Lost Cities
  • Annalee Newitz
3.7522 reads
#68
Real Queer America
Real Queer America
  • Samantha Allen
4.334 reads
#69
What My Bones Know
What My Bones Know
  • Stephanie Foo
4.5575 reads
#70
Why We Swim
Why We Swim
  • Bonnie Tsui
3.8615 reads
#71
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
  • Riley Black
3.718 reads
#72
Cover 7

We Are Each Other's Harvest

We Are Each Other's Harvest
  • Natalie Baszile
00 reads
#73
City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town
City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town
  • Susan Hartman
41 read
#74
Mudlark
Mudlark
  • Lara Maiklem
4.55 reads
#75
Work:  A History of How we spend our Time
Work: A History of How we spend our Time
  • James Suzman
41 read
#76
Cover 6

Queering SF

Queering SF: Readings
  • Ritch Calvin
51 read
#77
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves
  • Arik Kershenbaum
00 reads
#78
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
  • Amanda H. Podany
3.673 reads
#79
Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens
Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens
  • James Boyce
41 read
#80
Fabric of Civilization
Fabric of Civilization
  • Virginia Postrel
43 reads
#81
They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
  • James Verini
51 read
#82
Things That Are
Things That Are
  • Amy Leach
51 read
#83
Cover 3

God Is An Octopus

God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature
  • Ben Goldsmith
41 read
#84
Happy City
Happy City
  • Charles Montgomery
4.3515 reads
#85
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
  • Emma Southon
3.756 reads
#86
A Paradise Built in Hell
A Paradise Built in Hell
  • Rebecca Solnit
4.255 reads
#87
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
  • Matthieu Aikins
4.147 reads
#88
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
  • Sherronda J. Brown
4.110 reads
#89
A Brief History of Earth
A Brief History of Earth
  • Andrew H. Knoll
4.388 reads
#90
Underground
Underground
  • Will Hunt
3.52 reads