1,448 ratings — published 2015, avg rating 3.43 — Ignatius isn’t the only one you follow; he’s just the head of the confederacy, so to speak. published 2010, avg rating 3.99 — Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. Hatchet is followed by Brian’s Winter, and while this was a mandatory reading assignment in American schools, it’s far more enjoyable as an adult. This curated list covers the gamut of non-fiction, from compelling war stories to key feminist texts, to unbelievable struggles for survival, to tales of life in the culinary trade. Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore's Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species.

You can’t talk about good books for men and leave out Between the World and Me. History has always been a popular form of nonfiction, largely because there are so many different kinds of history. One of the most classic books of all-time, one of the predecessors to George Orwell’s 1984, Brave New World is a symbol of foresight and a man’s ability to analyze the future, based on the present.

published 2013, avg rating 4.31 — William Golding is still revered for his decomposition of society and showing us all our true colors.

1,328 ratings — As one of the original founders of how we view technology, how we listen to music, you’ll follow his accounts and third-party observational material, constructing a vibrant, yet incomplete puzzle of this world-changing inventor and businessman. published 1982, avg rating 3.90 — You get an entirely new empathetic feel for Lenny, an appreciation for struggles, weighing necessity and mercy, and fall right into the story. 274 ratings — A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. This is one of those books that is …

You’re not only shown how to accrue wealth, but the mindset that you must adopt to make it happen. These are based on over forty public interviews that Jobs had, information collected from his family members and friends, and even his competition. Kurt Vonnegut takes a deep look into our history as a species, and showcases our shortcomings and victories in unison.

985 ratings — published 2012, avg rating 3.93 — We’re all one person, regardless of class and indifferences, and no medium like the eyes of a child can better paint the fact that we are born without prejudice or the ability to look down on another. Through comedic adventures, the lighter side of life and a look at the inner-workings of a truly hapless oaf, there’s heart and hilarity spread across every page.

It’s about as classic American comedy as you can possibly get.

Cormac McCarthy weaves an intricate tale about a fragile relationship between father and son. 529 ratings —

18,782 ratings — 26 ratings — A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain.

48 ratings — She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. isStaticPage = true; 911 ratings — If you’ve ever had the thought of dropping everything, driving off and just setting out on your own, then Into The Wild is what you need to read. It’s a short one-day read, one that will have you revisiting early American literature of the same caliber and style. Paradise Lost is specifically a classic for its hands-free, spectator’s view of this story, and all the ways that it mirrors how we’ve changed (or in truth, not really changed all that much) throughout the history of mankind. A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. published 2013, avg rating 3.77 — Welcome back.

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Our young protagonist is crash landed, but it’s not on an island, it’s in the wilderness, and he is alone.

Salinger showcases the complexities of a sixteen-year-old boy leaving his preparatory school, travelling through New York City, and understanding what it is that makes him tick. Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write.

It’s a wild ride that abandons certain grammatical standards, and that’s what makes it such an ambitious read. You want nothing more than Edmond to find his treasure, even if at times, you end up hating him. Except for you; you never let the smooth grasp of a leatherbound book spine slip from your grip. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, 20 59 ratings — If you remember reading this in high school and hating it, give it a fresh look with your adult eyes. Check out our review of the best business books for our top picks.

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Delve into the history of New York, the shaping of its democracy, the way that New York City was built, and crumbled from within.

published 2006, avg rating 3.61 — published 2016, avg rating 3.71 — Love books? This publication introduces a truer version of Plath's works, and will no doubt alter her legacy forever. 354 ratings —

1,441 ratings — Ernest Hemingway’s definitive edition of the classic novel comes with all alternate endings, which will keep your head spinning as you travel through every single possibility.

In a time where you didn’t say what was on your mind, Alexei respectfully said “Screw that,” and told these tales regardless of public opinion. In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history. Captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Anthony Burgess created a tale that preys on the fear that earnest people have of criminals, and their underground world.

214 ratings — published 2013, avg rating 3.29 — published 2003, avg rating 4.10 — In the slew of technology, reading took a backseat to phones and tablets. 617 ratings — If you’ve read T.S.

The best books to read for men speak to our own individual masculinity, but also paint a picture in empathy. Gary Paulsen’s iconic series (most people didn’t know this was a series), follows a similar structure of Lord of the Flies. published 2014, avg rating 4.09 — This is one of those books that you run through like a hot knife through butter; you’ll find yourself staying up late, entrancing yourself in every page. published 2014, The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back (Hardcover), I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover), The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century (Hardcover), We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program (Hardcover), Ready for a Brand New Beat: How Dancing in the Street Became the Anthem for a Changing America (Hardcover), Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (Hardcover), The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover), To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Hardcover), Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding (Hardcover), Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath (Hardcover), Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable (Hardcover), Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover), The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be (Hardcover), A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis (Paperback), Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press (Hardcover), Prudence Crandall's Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education (Hardcover), I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey (Paperback), Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany (Hardcover), Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Hardcover), Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (Paperback), Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Hardcover), A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism (Hardcover), The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover), I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts (Hardcover), The Best Book of Early People (Hardcover), Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors (Paperback), On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurus, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight (Hardcover), Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire (Paperback), Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (Hardcover), Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Hardcover), Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Hardcover), The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America (Hardcover), Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age (Kindle Edition), Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul (Hardcover), The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover), The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Hardcover), Drive Without Fear: The Insecure Driver's Guide to Independence (Paperback), The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House (Hardcover), The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction (Hardcover), The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover), The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 (Paperback), The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition), Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (ebook), China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa (Hardcover).

Ideals and methodic practice don’t have an expiration date, and neither will your success when you plunge yourself into his work. The riveting life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. With the pilot dead, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson takes the only tool at his disposal, a hatchet that his mother gave him, and uses it to survive. Nonfiction isnt limited to memoirs and biographies, either; it covers anything that isnt made up. Take a Step Into the Past. Now bear with us here, because this is the most critically-acclaimed love or hate book ever written. Find more great products like this by checking out our guide to the best camping books. Step in the shoes of The Stranger to follow the struggles of our young Algerian in a post-war world, and progress through his struggles as he faces a trial for murder,  relives the death of his mother, and comes to the realization that the world is a cruel place to live. Elliot, you’re going to see a major influence by his The Waste Land in this novel. The Kite Runner paints a deeper picture than the exchange between the two boys in the book, and resonates with you long after the final chapter. 6,143 ratings — We don’t simply gain friends, we win affection with our personalities, and garner favor as time goes on.

In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. Our handy guide to the best adult coloring books features more great products like this. Generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. Slaughterhouse-Five delves into history, showcasing why war has never been constructive, and putting an objective twist on how we view anti war novels. published 2011, avg rating 3.80 — published 2015, avg rating 3.79 —

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