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Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021? ↗

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2021-12-10 · 71 points · 38 comments · 15 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

  1. 4Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Thomas Paine

    4 here · 7 all-time · #1045 overall

  2. 2The Dawn of Everything

    The Dawn of Everything

    David Graeber and David Wengrow

    2 here · 45 all-time · #102 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 289 ratings on Amazon
  3. 2Bullshit Jobs

    Bullshit Jobs

    David Graeber

    2 here · 11 all-time · #585 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,291 ratings on Amazon
  4. 1

    Debt: The First 5000 Years

    David Graeber

    1 here · 41 all-time · #120 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,289 ratings on Amazon
  5. 1

    How to Change Your Mind

    Michael Pollan

    1 here · 25 all-time · #241 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 10,573 ratings on Amazon
  6. 1Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

    Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

    John E. Sarno

    1 here · 21 all-time · #308 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 7,970 ratings on Amazon
  7. 1

    Why Nations Fail

    Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

    1 here · 19 all-time · #329 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 10,898 ratings on Amazon
  8. 1Flash Boys

    Flash Boys

    Michael Lewis

    1 here · 17 all-time · #368 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 18,690 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1The Courage to Be Disliked

    The Courage to Be Disliked

    Ichiro Kishimi

    1 here · 14 all-time · #456 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 27,543 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1Humankind

    Humankind

    Rutger Bregman

    1 here · 12 all-time · #555 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 8,714 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

    How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

    Bill Gates

    1 here · 9 all-time · #760 overall

  12. 1The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

    The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

    Simon Winchester

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1798 overall

  13. 1Working Backwards

    Working Backwards

    Colin Bryar, Bill Carr

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2014 overall

  14. 1The 1619 Project

    The 1619 Project

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2481 overall

  15. 1A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

    A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

    Jeff Hawkins

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2482 overall