55 Nonfiction Books to Read in a Lifetime

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The Zookeeper's Wife (2007) (tekijä: Diane Ackermann)
Tiistaisin Morrien luona (1997) (tekijä: Mitch Albom)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) (tekijä: Maya Angelou)
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living (2017) (tekijä: Tim Bauerschmidt)
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust (1999) (tekijä: Edith Hahn Beer)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (2013) (tekijä: Daniel James Brown)
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (2014) (tekijä: Peter C. Brown)
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998) (tekijä: Bill Bryson)
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens (2014) (tekijä: Benedict Carey)
Happiness for Beginners (2015) (tekijä: Katherine Center)
Between the World and Me (2015) (tekijä: Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Maagisen ajattelun aika (2005) (tekijä: Joan Didion)
Tapojen voima : miksi käyttäydymme niin kuin käyttäydymme (2012) (tekijä: Charles Duhigg)
The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me (2010) (tekijä: Bruce Feiler)
Nuoren tytön päiväkirja (1947) (tekijä: Anne Frank)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (2014) (tekijä: Atul Gawande)
Omaa tietä etsimässä Italiassa, Intiassa ja Indonesiassa (2006) (tekijä: Elizabeth Gilbert)
I Can't Make This Up (2017) (tekijä: Kevin Hart)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010) (tekijä: Laura Hillenbrand)
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League (2014) (tekijä: Jeff Hobbs)
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (2016) (tekijä: Nathalia Holt)
When Breath Becomes Air (2016) (tekijä: Paul Kalanithi)
The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life (2015) (tekijä: Janice Kaplan)
Scrappy Little Nobody (2016) (tekijä: Anna Kendrick)
My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag . . . and Other Things You Can't Ask Martha (2014) (tekijä: Jolie Kerr)
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (2013) (tekijä: Denise Kiernan)
KonMari : siivouksen elämänmullistava taika (2011) (tekijä: Marie Kondo)
Erämaan armoille (1996) (tekijä: Jon Krakauer)
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015) (tekijä: Erik Larson)
Furiously Happy (2015) (tekijä: Jenny Lawson)
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto (2016) (tekijä: Tilar J. Mazzeo)
Live Fast Die Hot (2016) (tekijä: Jenny Mollen)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) (tekijä: Siddhartha Mukherjee)
Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destruc tive Behavior (2014) (tekijä: Richard O'Connor)
Jäähyväisluento (2008) (tekijä: Randy Pausch)
Yes Please (2014) (tekijä: Amy Poehler)
It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too) (2016) (tekijä: Nora McInerny Purmort)
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person (2015) (tekijä: Shonda Rhimes)
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (2015) (tekijä: J. K. Rowling)
Onnellisuusprojekti (2009) (tekijä: Gretchen Rubin)
Gratitude (2015) (tekijä: Oliver Sacks)
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy (2017) (tekijä: Sheryl Sandberg)
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (2016) (tekijä: Amy Schumer)
Elämän mittainen lukupiiri (2012) (tekijä: Will Schwalbe)
I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool (2017) (tekijä: Lisa Scottoline)
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016) (tekijä: Margot Lee Shetterly)
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare (2017) (tekijä: Gabourey Sidibe)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) (tekijä: Rebecca Skloot)
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (2012) (tekijä: Cheryl Strayed)
Villi vaellus (2012) (tekijä: Cheryl Strayed)
Pianisti (1946) (tekijä: Władysław Szpilman)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (2016) (tekijä: J. D. Vance)
Lasilinna (2005) (tekijä: Jeannette Walls)
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing (2016) (tekijä: Jennifer Weiner)
Yö (1956) (tekijä: Elie Wiesel)

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