17 must-read nonfiction books like In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book by Joel Stein

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In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book

By: Joel Stein

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Thurber finalist and former star Time columnist Joel Stein comes a " brilliant exploration" (W…

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1. The Road to Character

By: David Brooks

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nur…"

-David Brooks, The Road to Character

"We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don't know how to react in such situations, but others do. In the first place, they just show up. They prov…"

-David Brooks, The Road to Character

Cover of The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark Treharne

2. The Guermantes Way

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Format: 619 pages, Paperback

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more

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  • audiobook
"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش می‌آید، چون تخیل با توست"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک می‌شناسد"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

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3. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

By: Tom Nichols

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The rise of the internet and other technology has made information more easily-accessible than ever… read more

Similar categories in Tom Nichols's The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters book and Joel Stein's In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • education
Cover of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard

4. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

By: Colin Woodard

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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5. The Cloud of Unknowing

By: Anonymous , James Walsh

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely considered a hallmark of Western literature and spirituality, The Cloud of Unknowing is an a… read more

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  • nonfiction

6. Interior Castle

By: Teresa de Ávila

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A cornerstone book on mystical theology, Interior Castledescribes the seven stages of union with Go… read more

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7. The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

By: Simon Winchester

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

In illuminating detail, Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor & the Madman("Elegant & scr… read more

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8. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swisher's Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book and Joel Stein's In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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10. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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11. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

By: Emmanuel Acho

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom by Sam Dogen

12. Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom

By: Sam Dogen

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

SPEND YOUR WAY TO FREEDOM LIKE A TRUE FINANCIAL SAMURAI   Sam Dogen, creator of the Financial Samur… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

14. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

By: Carl T. Bergstrom

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misin… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Перефразовуючи Алена Ґінзберґа, програміст і бізнесмен Джеф Гаммербахер 2011 року гірко зауважив, що «найсвітліші голови мого покоління думають, як змусити людей клацати на оголошення в інтернеті, — …"

-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

"People worry that AI has surpassed humans, but we doubt AI will claim this award anytime soon. One might think that the TED brand of bullshit is just a cocktail of sound-bite science, management-spea…"

-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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16. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

By: Michelle Dowd

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Book of Ayn

By: Lexi Freiman

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The B… read more

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  • politics
  • humor
"I met Ming at an old run-down bistro in Santa Monica. My friend had been writing her great McLuhanesque horror film for the last nine years—"The Medium Is the Monster." Each time she finished a draft…"

-Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn

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18. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

By: Douglas Rushkoff

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"

-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

19. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks by Charlamagne Tha God

20. Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks

By: Charlamagne Tha God

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book by Joel Stein

21. In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book

By: Joel Stein

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Thurber finalist and former star Time columnist Joel Stein comes a " brilliant exploration" (W… read more

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  • humor
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • education
  • sociology
  • comedy
  • audiobook

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3.65

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4.27

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3.99

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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Erik Larson

4.24

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Liz Cheney

4.60

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