The Ten Best Nonfiction Books of All Time You Need to Check Out

Everyone has a different genre that they prefer reading and one of those genres is nonfiction. That is why we decided to list the ten best nonfiction books of all time that you need to check out!

If you are anything like me, then you don’t often find yourself reading a nonfiction book. I enjoy fantasy novels, a good mystery, and most fiction genres. There is something magical about creating a world out of nothing and that’s usually what you will find me reading.

But I do enjoy a good nonfiction book here and there. I have made an effort to read more nonfiction this year and enjoyed the ones I did read. You just have to find the right books and the genre of the book won’t matter.

This list of the best nonfiction books was created by The Greatest Books and used data from over 600 book lists to make this list. The method used is interesting and my only problem with it is that these lists only work depending on what books the person who created the list has read.

I can tell you right now that I haven’t read most of these books and wouldn’t have included them on my list for that reason. With that said, you can see the full list below!

The Best Nonfiction Books of All Time 

• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Essays by Michel de Montaigne
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
• If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is a great book and one that everyone should read. It is hard to argue that it is not one of the greatest nonfiction books of all time. 

My one complaint with this list is that In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is not a complete nonfiction. People interviewed in the novel have come out and said that Capote “changed facts to suit the story, added scenes that never took place, and manufactured dialogue.”

That should disqualify this book as nonfiction in my opinion. I understand that Capone and this book started the true fiction genre and deserves all the credit. But we can’t pretend that Capone broke the one rule of journalism which is to make up stuff. 

Conclusion

Besides that book, I don’t have any complaints with this list. Walden by Henry David Thoreau is a great book and I am glad it made this list. How many books on this list have you read? What do you think of this list? Let us know in the comments below!

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