Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on 100 easiest to think of off the top of his head.
I’m not a fan of ranking things, but anyway here are some non-fiction books that have made me ever so slightly little less clueless:
David Archer: The Long Thaw – How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate
Laura Bates: Everyday Sexism
Sean Carroll: From Eternity to Here – The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
Sean Carroll: The Particle at the End of the Universe – How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
Barbara Ehrenreich: Bright Sided – How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
Thomas Gilovich: How We Know What Isn’t So – The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Michelle Goldberg: Kingdom Coming – The Rise of Christian Nationalism
Michelle Goldberg: The Means of Reproduction – Sex, Power and the Future of the World
James Hansen: Storms of my Grandchildren – The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
Margaret Heffernan: Willful Blindness – Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
Susan Jacoby: The Age of American Unreason
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Bill McKibben: Eaarth – Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Naomi Oreskes / Eric Connway: Merchants of Doubt – How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Lisa Randall: Warped Passages – Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions
Daniel Simons / Christopher Chabris: The Inivisible Gorilla – And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us
Stuart Sutherland: Irrationality
Carol Tavris / Elliot Aronson: Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) – Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts