Informative books
Books that teach something while telling a good story: science, history, medicine, economics and society, explained clearly. Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything covers the whole of science with humour, Atul Gawande's Being Mortal looks at how we care for the dying, and Hans Rosling's Factfulness corrects our picture of the world with data. Matthew Desmond's Evicted and Carl Sagan's Cosmos are here too.
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- 1One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
8.98.9 / 10 - 2Cosmos
8.98.9 / 10 - 3The New Jim Crow
8.88.8 / 10 - 4Empire of Pain
8.88.8 / 10 - 5Evicted
8.88.8 / 10 - 6Being Mortal
8.78.7 / 10 - 7Shoe Dog
8.78.7 / 10 - 8Factfulness
8.68.6 / 10 - 9A Short History of Nearly Everything
8.58.5 / 10 - 10The Message
8.58.5 / 10 - 11Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
8.58.5 / 10 - 12We Should All Be Feminists
8.58.5 / 10 - 13Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
8.58.5 / 10 - 14Bring Up the Bodies
8.58.5 / 10 - 15El Deafo
8.58.5 / 10 - 16Pachinko
8.58.5 / 10 - 17A Promised Land
8.58.5 / 10 - 18Entangled Life
8.48.4 / 10 - 19How to Be an Antiracist
8.48.4 / 10 - 20Brief Answers to the Big Questions
8.48.4 / 10 - 21The Righteous Mind
8.48.4 / 10 - 22Wild Swans
8.48.4 / 10 - 23Pale Blue Dot
8.48.4 / 10 - 24Steve Jobs
8.48.4 / 10 - 25The Selfish Gene
8.48.4 / 10 - 26Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
8.48.4 / 10 - 27Kitchen Confidential
8.48.4 / 10 - 28The Ancestor's Tale
8.48.4 / 10 - 29On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
8.48.4 / 10 - 30Mere Christianity
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