22 best-selling nonfiction books like You Didn't Mention the Piranhas by Sarah Nelson Smith

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You Didn't Mention the Piranhas

By: Sarah Nelson Smith

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

How to live more bravely and successfully navigate through any disaster In 2018, award-winning lawy…

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1. Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

By: Gary Smith

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or th… read more

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2. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

By: Brian M. Fagan

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more

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3. Great North Road

By: Peter F. Hamilton

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humani… read more

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4. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times

By: George Crile

4.36

Format: 544 pages,

s/t: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress & a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the His… read more

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5. Opium: A History

By: Martin Booth

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcoti… read more

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6. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

By: Charles Seife

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it… read more

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7. Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga [Publication] #5.1-5.3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Limited edition volume. Contents: Frame story that follows Miles' time on Earth in Brothers in Arms… read more

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8. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

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9. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

By: Marie Favereau

3.84

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them―not just conquerors but also city builder… read more

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10. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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11. Butts: A Backstory

By: Heather Radke

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more

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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

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12. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

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13. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

By: Arkady Martine

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more

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"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

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14. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

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15. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

16. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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17. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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18. Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

By: Ron Cowen

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of re… read more

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19. The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants

By: Leigh Calvez

3.85

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the P… read more

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Cover of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock

20. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

By: Caroline Dodds Pennock

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more

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21. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery

By: Christie Aschwanden

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller “The definitive tour through a bewildering jungle o… read more

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22. Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

By: Marcia Bjornerud

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us hav… read more

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"Antipathy toward time clouds personal and collective thinking."

-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

"This impression is a glimpse not of timelessness but timefulness, an acute consciousness of how the world is made by - indeed, made of - time."

-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

"I emphasize that my job is not to challenge their personal beliefs but to teach the logic of geology (geo-logic?) - the methods and tools of the discipline that enables us not only to comprehend how …"

-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

"Over human timescales, however, our disruption of geography will haunt us. Soil lost to erosion, coastal areas claimed by the sea, and mountaintops sacrificed on the altar of capitalism won't be rest…"

-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

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23. Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas

By: Karen Pinchin

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

**THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the… read more

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24. Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans

By: Josh Young

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world’s oce… read more

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25. Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization

By: Brian M. Fagan

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Humanity’s last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civ… read more

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26. Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea

By: Richard J. King

3.95

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, dis… read more

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27. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

By: Joshua B. Freeman

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

"Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the nat… read more

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Cover of The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe by William Poundstone

28. The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

By: William Poundstone

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? , a fascinating look at how an equation … read more

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29. The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor

By: David L. Mearns

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This gripping memoir by the world’s foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime h… read more

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30. You Didn't Mention the Piranhas

By: Sarah Nelson Smith

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

How to live more bravely and successfully navigate through any disaster In 2018, award-winning lawy… read more

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31. The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

By: David Abulafia

4.23

Format: 1088 pages, Hardcover

A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the aw… read more

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4.45

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4.23

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