Autobiography / Memoir
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Black Boy
- Dreams from My Father
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Manchild in the Promised Land
- Maus
- A Moveable Feast
- Notes of a Native Son
- On Writing
- Speak, Memory
- A Walk in the Woods
Biography
Business
- Capitalism and Freedom
- Fast Food Nation
- The General Theory
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- No Logo
- Unsafe at Any Speed
- What Color Is Your Parachute?
Culture
- The American Cinema
- A Child of the Century
- Within the Context of No Context
- Mystery Train
- The Story of Art
Essays
- Against Interpretation, and Other Essays
- A Room of One's Own
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Food Writing
Health
History
- The Best and the Brightest
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Carry Me Home
- The Fatal Shore
- The Gnostic Gospels
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- A People's History of the United States
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Ideas
- The Closing of the American Mind
- The End of History and the Last Man
- Godel, Escher, Bach
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Imagined Communities
- The Nature and Destiny of Man
- Orientalism
- Syntactic Structures
- A Theory of Justice
- Understanding Media
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Nonfiction Novels
Politics
- All the President's Men
- The Clash of Civilizations
- Conscience of a Conservative
- God & Man at Yale
- Homage to Catalonia
- The Making of the President
- The Origins of Totalitarianism
- The Paranoid Style in American Politics
- What It Takes
Science
- A Brief History of Time
- Coming of Age in Samoa
- The Double Helix by James Watson
- The Emperor of All Maladies
- The Lives of a Cell
- The Naked Ape
- On Human Nature
- The Selfish Gene
- Silent Spring
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Self-Help / Instructional
Social History
- The American Way of Death
- Animal Liberation
- The Beauty Myth
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- The Feminine Mystique
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Nickel and Dimed
- The Other America
- Why We Can't Wait
- Working



























