NON-FICTION GREAT READS
Discover the best non-fiction books with our curated list of great reads. Explore inspiring biographies, insightful histories, and thought-provoking essays for your next favorite book.
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The Day the World Came to Town
by Jim DeFede
"For the better part of a week, nearly every man, woman, and child in Gander and the surrounding smaller towns stopped what they were doing …
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America the Vulnerable
by Stephen E. Flynn
Flynn gives an alarming and authoritative view of what America still hasn't done--and what it needs to do--to provide security in the face of new …
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The Culture of Fear
by Barry Glassner
There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three …
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Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt
"Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives - how people get what they want, …
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Busting Vegas
by Ben Mezrich
The Mit Whiz kid who brought the casinos to their knees. He played the casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer …
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Outrage
by Vincent Bugliosi
A best-selling account by the author of Helter Skelter outlines the main reasons O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, from the jury's makeup to the …
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Celebration, U.S.A.
by Douglas Frantz
In 1997, after the first residents relocated to Celebration, Florida--Disney's "model" town of self-sufficiency, the authors and their two children moved in to participate and …
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Finders Keepers
by Mark Bowden
The author of Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo chronicles the true story of a longshoreman from South Philadelphia who found $1 million lost from …
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Be True to Your School
by Bob Greene
The bestselling author of Good Morning, Merry Sunshine and American Beat captures, in these high school diaries, the joys and pains of adolescence as they …
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The Paradox of Choice
by Barry Schwartz
In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. …