10 Great Non-Fiction Books

Discover 10 great non-fiction books that educate, inspire, and captivate. Explore top picks across history, science, self-help, and more for your next must-read.

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In Search of the Miraculous

by Petr Demʹi︠a︡novich Uspenskiĭ

The record of Ouspensky's eight years of work as Gurdjieff's pupil.
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections

by Carl G. Jung

An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. "An important, firsthand …
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And There was Light

by Jacques Lusseyran

The gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran. Through faith in the connection between vivid inner sight and outer events, the young …
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A Distant Mirror

by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

This is a story of the 14th century, when the whole world seemed to be spinning to its doom, and yet when our modern world …
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The Snow Leopard

by Peter Matthiessen

When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week …
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Godel, Escher, Bach

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with …
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All 14 Eight-thousanders

by Reinhold Messner

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Learn to Play Go

by Soo-hyun Jeong

LEARN TO PLAY GO is an integrated learning book series about the Asian game called Go. Go is 4,000 years old & has approximately 100 …
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Gods Chinese Son

by Jonathan D Spence

A powerful account of the largest uprising in human history--the Taiping rebellion (1845-64)--in which 20 million Chinese were left dead, God's Chinese Son tells "a …
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Warriors of God

by James Reston, Jr.

Acclaimed author James Reston, Jr.'s Warriors of God is the rich and engaging account of the Third Crusade (1187-1192), a conflict that would shape world …