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Top 20 Nonfiction Books of all Time

  1.  The Big Short:  Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
  2.  The Glass Castle:  A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
  3.  Into Thin Air:  A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
  4.  Born to Run:  A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
  5.  Wild:  From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
  6.  Moneyball:  The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
  7.  Unbroken:  A WW II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
  8.  Helter Skelter:  The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
  9.  The Signal and the Noise:  Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t by Nate Silver
  10.  Catch Me If You Can:  The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding
  11.  Digital Gold:  Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathanial Popper
  12. Wheelmen:  Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O’Connell
  13. The Comeback:  Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France by Daniel de Vise
  14. The Secret Race:  Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle
  15. Bad Blood:  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
  16. Bitcoin Billionaires:  A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption by Ben Mezrich
  17.  Educated:  A Memoir by Tara Westover
  18.  Flash Boys:  A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
  19.  Smartest Guys in the Room:  The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McClean and Peter Elkind
  20.  Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold with David Roberts