Books to educate you
Thousands of book community members have contributed to this survey so far, with these 78 books being the most frequently mentioned for books that left them smarter
intellectual book recommendations
books to leave you smarter
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act - Bob Joseph || Ace - Angela Chen || An Immense World - Ed Yong || Bad Pharma - Ben Goldacre || Born a Crime - Trevor Noah || Come as you are - Emily Nagoski || Educated - Tara Westover || Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia || How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi || Know My Name - Chanel Miller || Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano || Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty || The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi || The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack || Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis || A Life on Our Planet - David Attenborough || Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa || Are Prisons Obsolete - Angela Davis || Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender - Kit Heyam || Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer || Cultish: The Language of Fanatacism by Amanda Montell || Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe || Forest Euphoria: the Abounding Queerness of Nature - Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian || Humankind: A Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman || Men Who Hate Women - Laura Bates || Our Bodies, Their Battlefields - Christina Lamb || So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo || The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green || The Five - Hallie Rubenhold || Wordslut by Amanda Montell || A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib || All about love by bell hooks || Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil Degrass Tyson || Being Mortal - Atul Gawande || Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History - Bill Schutt || Disability Visibility - Alice Wong || Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake || From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitllin Doughty || Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez || Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick || Poverty by America - Matthew Desmond || Stamped From the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi || The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk || The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben || A People's History of the United States- Howard Zinn || All in her head - Elizabeth Comen || Atomic habits by James clear || Biased - Jennifer L. Eberhardt || Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson || Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space - Amanda Leduc || Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green || Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot – Mikki Kendall || Jane Austen's Bookshelf - Rebecca Romney || On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King || Radium Girls - Kate Moore || Stiff- Mary Roach || The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein || The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot || A Short History of Almost Everything - Bill Bryson || All the Living and the Dead - Haley Campbell || Bad Blood - John Carreyrou || Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore - Char Adams || Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives - Siddharth Kara || Doppelgänger - Naomi Klein || Evicted - Matthew Desmond || How the Word is Passed - Clint Smith || Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson || One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad || Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe || Stolen Focus - Johann Hari || The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee || The Light Eaters; How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth - Zoë Schlanger || A Taste For Poison - Neil Bradbury || The Radium Girls - Kate Moore || The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte || The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein || The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson || The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio || They Called Us Enemy by George Takei || What My Bones Know - Stephanie Foo || Unmasking Autism - Devon Price || Unwell Women - Elinor Cleghorn || The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World || The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander || The New Age of Sexism - Laura Bates || Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker ||
