Introducing the Best 20 Non-Fiction Books

Books that Will Jump-Start Your Curiosity

Are you feeling curious and ready to embark on a journey of discovery? If so, don’t worry – help is at hand! We’ve rounded up a collection of some of the most fascinating and thought-provoking non-fiction books available. Covering everything from science and politics to history and biography, these books are sure to pique your interest and leave you wanting more.

1. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari

As we approach the 2023s, our society is facing unprecedented challenges. In this book, Yuval Noah Harari offers his thoughts on the most pressing issues of our time.

2. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry – Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Have you always been fascinated by space and the cosmos? Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is an accessible introduction to the wonders of the universe. It will open your eyes to the wonders beyond our own planet.

3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot

Imagine how it would feel to learn that a part of your body was taken without your consent and used in scientific research. This is the story of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose cells have been instrumental in countless medical victories.

4. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer – Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer remains one of the most pressing health concerns of our time. This fascinating look at the history of this disease will provide some insights into what makes cancer such a stubborn and difficult foe.

5. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari takes readers on an enlightening journey through the evolution of the human species. With wit and insight, Harari challenges readers to rethink what it means to be human.

6. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi

Paul Kalanithi was a gifted neurosurgeon who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer just as his career and personal life were taking off. This beautiful memoir tells the story of his journey from doctor to patient.

7. Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker

We spend about a third of our lives sleeping, yet few of us fully understand why sleep is so vital. In this thought-provoking book, Matthew Walker reveals the hidden benefits of getting a good night’s rest.

8. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

Why do we make the decisions we do? Daniel Kahneman breaks down how your brain decides through to parallel processing thought systems dubbed system 1 and system 2 so we can understand ourselves better.

9. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander warns of “a caste system as pervasive and harmful as the one that preceded and endured after slave trade.” Alexander documents exactly why Jim Crow laws are far from being history.

10. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging – Sebastian Junger

“Something tribal”– that is what many of us crave, argues journalist and book author Sebastian Junger in his thought-provoking book. It’s about coming together as a tribe and understanding what really drives us.

11. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey

Are you finding it difficult to balance your professional and personal life? An international best-seller for over 30 years, Stephen R. Covey masterfully writes that integration is crucial; not balance.

12. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World – Peter Frankopan

Move over America: Peter Frankopan contains “a new history of the world”: focusing more on the fields of Middle Eastern histories and exchange routes for amalgamation.

13. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -Robert M. Pirsig

Grab your helmet and remember your next long drive: the classic novel takes us to a cross-country motorcycle adventure of introspection on self, life, and meaning.

14. Influence – Robert B. Cialdini

Everybody tries to persuade effectively. Recommended by numerous professors, Influence intelligently provokes readers to think along with or against it.

15. The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

Dante-Alighieri’s ‘Divine Comedy’ implies on returning to hold to a relationship with God, which both dissolves tragically in our lives as errors with love and confusion.

16. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

The short work of A Brief History of Time consists of only 200 pages or so, making it an approachable meeting with Stephen Hawking’s insightful theories on “cosmology, relativity and black hole”: the origins of the universe remain around 10 seconds after the beginning of our calendars, yet light years away from grasp.

17. The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman

This longtime hit piece takes more on how design can make or wreck industrial ideas before brilliant causes get lost in redesigns. Don Norman discovered ideas, visions and goals to chart a plausible path.

18. The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

“Rick’s swashbuckling prowess can now be improved with symbolism as allegorized fodder,” translating the famous PBS documentary into script. If you’re eager to learn and expand further academics follow up mythology.

19. Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain

For the love of chefs! Start by sampling us the craze behind Anthony Bourdain’s book, where mouths will literally water during each appetizing gloss-over on eating, skulking around far-flung regions’ kitchens, working as a beginner-chef, with the toughness on head calls, kitchen roles, bosses, frank and descriptive. Enjoy him with spunky personal anecdotes and quizzes of internal reasoning.

20. Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control – Stuart Russell

From Hollywood tropes to newsroom breakthroughs, post-conception-stresses outlining how to get too up-close to Silicon Valley startups’ star energies about robots and virtual reality. Together covering tips AI can cleanse algorithms and software towards data scientists’ reassurance they’re aware briefly of what’s good in thoughts.