Non Fiction Books to Read Sophomore Year

How is this list generated?

This list is generated from 130 "all-time of" book lists from a variety of great sources. An algorithm is used to create a primary list based on how many lists a detail volume appears on. Some lists count more than others. I generally trust "best of all time" lists voted by authors and experts over user-generated lists. On the lists that are actually ranked, the volume that is 1st counts a lot more than the book that's 100th. If you lot're interested in the details about how the rankings are generated and which lists are the most important(in my optics) please check out the listing details folio.

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ane . Angela's Ashes: A Memoir past Frank McCourt

Angela's Ashes is a memoir by Irish-American author Frank McCourt and tells the story of his babyhood in Brooklyn and Ireland. It was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or ...
iii . The Making of the Atomic Flop by Richard Rhodes

The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book written by Richard Rhodes, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. The 900-page bo...
4 . Wild Swans: Iii Daughters of China by Jung Chang

The story of three generations in twentieth-century Communist china that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of bystander history—a bestselling classic in xxx languages with more than t...
5 . The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the mail service–Earth War Ii period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the developm...
half-dozen . The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Twelvemonth of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, is an account of the yr following the decease of the writer'south husband John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003). Published by Knopf in October 2005, the book was ...
vii . On Writing by Stephen Male monarch

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is an autobiography and writing guide by Stephen King, published during 2000. It is a book nigh the prolific author's experiences as a writer. Although he discuss...
eight . Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the American Civil War published in 1988 by James Yard. McPherson. Writing for the The New York Times, historian Hugh Br...
10 . Maus past Art Spiegelman

Maus: A Survivor'due south Tale is an autobiography by Art Spiegelman, told using the comics form. Parts of the story were originally published in the magazine RAW betwixt 1980 to 1991. The consummate story ...
13 . Modern Times past Paul Johnson

The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.
14 . The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell defines a tipping betoken every bit a sociological term: "the moment of disquisitional mass, the threshold, the boiling signal." The book seeks to explain and draw the "mysterious" sociological change...
15 . Man'south Search for Pregnant by Victor Frankl

Viktor Frankl's 1946 book Man's Search for Meaning chronicles his experiences as a concentration military camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live. According to Fra...
16 . And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

And the Ring Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a nonfiction book written past San Francisco Relate journalist Randy Shilts, published in 1987. It chronicles the discovery and south...
17 . The Looming Belfry by Lawrence Wright

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a historical expect at the way in which Al-Qaeda came into beingness, the groundwork for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated, and ...
eighteen . Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at Academy of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998 information technology won a Pulitze...
19 . The Mismeasure of Human being past Stephen Jay Gould

The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 volume written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002). The volume is a history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological det...
20 . A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan

A Bright Shining Lie is a book by Neil Sheehan, a former New York Times reporter who covered the Vietnam State of war. It is about U.Due south. Army retired Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States i...
22 . A Heartbreaking Piece of work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger blood brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the ...
23 . Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

Mitchell explored a New York City that has now vanished in his four books and his archetype reportage for The New Yorker. Mitchell's eccentrics live over again in this omnibus volume that contains all of ...
24 . In the Centre of the Sea past Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Centre of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a National Book Award winning piece of work of maritime history by Nathaniel Philbrick. It tells the story of the Whaleship Essex from the poin...
25 . Common Footing past J. Anthony Lukas

The book traces the history of 3 families: the African-American Twymons, the Irish McGoffs and the Yankee Defined. It gives brief genealogical histories of each families, focusing on how the eve...
26 . Freakonomics past Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. T...
27 . Me Talk Pretty One Day past David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Twenty-four hour period, published in 2000, is a bestselling collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris. The book is separated into two parts. The first consists of essays about Sedaris...
28 . The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to written report on the conflict there. In the following jump she returned to live with an Afghan family for southward...
30 . Altogether Letters past Ted Hughes

Birthday Letters, published in 1998 (ISBN 0-374-52581-1), is a collection of poetry by English language poet and children's author Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won ...
31 . Future Daze: The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

Explores the nature and implications of a 3rd wave of change that is now creating a new civilization with its own life-styles, jobs, sexual attitudes, concepts of family and dearest, economic struct...
32 . Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots & Leaves is a non-fiction book written past Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC Radio 4's Cut a Dash programme. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctua...
34 . The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking nearly love, linguistic communication, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-angle memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierc...
35 . This Male child's Life by Tobias Wolff

This Boy's Life is a memoir by Tobias Wolff beginning published in 1989. Information technology describes the author'south adolescence as he wanders the continental U.s.a. with his afoot mother. The first leg of th...
36 . The Ants by Due east. O. Wilson, Bert Hölldobler

This book is primarily aimed at academics as a reference work, detailing the beefcake, physiology, social organization, environmental, and natural history of ants. The Ants is a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
37 . Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster is a 2005 book by Svetlana Alexievich. Alexievich was a journalist living in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, at the time of the Chernoby...
38 . Centesimus Annus past Pope John Paul Two

Centesimus Annus (which is Latin for "hundredth year") was an encyclical written by Pope John Paul 2 in 1991, on the hundredth anniversary of Rerum Novarum. It is part of a larger body of writings...
40 . The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression is a 2001 memoir written by Andrew Solomon. Information technology examines the personal, cultural, and scientific aspects of low through Solomon'south published interviews...
44 . The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow

The winner of the National Volume Award and now considered a classic, The Business firm of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written nearly an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Jo...
47 . James Joyce by Richard Ellmann

This acclaimed biography has won both the James Tait Black and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prizes, and is considered by many to be the definitive account of Joyce's life and piece of work. The fresh materia...
48 . The Liars' Order by Mary Karr

The Liars' Order is the childhood memoir of American author Mary Karr. Published in 1995 and a New York Times bestseller for over a year it tells the story of Mary Karr's childhood in the 1960s in a...