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What is the best non-fiction book you've ever read?

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  • Jan 5, 2023
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What is the best non-fiction book you've ever read? Especially interested in non-business books.

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Man's Search for Meaning
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    Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope wit
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Jeffrey Lebowski 1 month ago

I reread this every year on my birthday.

Rob Picard 1 month ago

Might be Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

Joshua Levy 1 month ago

“Best” is essentially impossible to choose. But when it comes to the most important question of meaning in life, I (and I’m sure many others) would probably pick Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.

Recommended by Jonathan Brun Cerys Burcher and Mitul
Book May 9, 1997
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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    Jared Diamond
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."<br /><br />Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas
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Jonathan Brun 1 month ago

Guns, Germs and Steel - by Jared Diamond - helps understand why the world is the way it is and why certain countries/people were inevitably going to be poor.

Cerys Burcher 1 month ago

Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond Fascinating on why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences

Recommended by Nobody and Lisa G
Book Jan 1, 2011
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Yuval Noah Harari
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human r
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Lisa G 1 month ago

Sapiens:A Brief History of Humankind and its follow up, Homo Deus, both by Yuval Novah Harari. I was so affected by these books I had to ask several friends to read so I could discuss, and discuss ad nauseam. Seriously. Deeply thought provoking is an understatement.

Recommended by Ishita7077.eth and Vaibhav Puranik
Book May 28, 2019
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • by
    David Epstein
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabb
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Ishita7077.eth 1 month ago

Range by David Epstein topped my 2022 list. @anishmohammed which was your favourite ?

Recommended by Matt Clifford and Tyler Golato
Book Sep 18, 1986
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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    Richard Rhodes
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly
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Recommended by Megan and Joey Mezzatesta
Book Jan 12, 2016
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When Breath Becomes Air
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    Paul Kalanithi
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?' At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a
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Megan 1 month ago

I recently recommended this one

Recommended by Krish and Pierce
Book 1959
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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    Alfred Lansing , Ernest Shackleton
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shac
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Krish 1 month ago

+1 Endurance is a fantastic read.

Pierce 1 month ago

Off the top of my head I'd say: Endurance by Alfred Lansing (about the Endurance expedition to the south pole, wild story)

Recommended by Tyler and Joey Daoud
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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    Ed Catmull , Amy Wallace
“What does it mean to manage well?” From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive book about creativity in business—sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers wh
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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    Oliver Sacks
*Description from Goodreads:* If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neu
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Megan 1 month ago

oh and this one got me interested in neuropsychology.

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Book 2009
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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    Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, t
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Recommended by Alli Young and Michael Hoeksema
Book Nov 1, 2018
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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    Patrick Radden Keefe
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone i
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Alli Young 1 month ago

Read this one recently and it was so eye-opening.

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Book Oct 16, 2018
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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    James Clear
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to rem
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