Nonfiction 91 books by José Gonçalves

Dark Alliance

ByGary Webb

1998 • 5 Readers • 592 pages • 2

#1 of 3 in Архипелаг Гулаг

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II

ByAleksandr Solzhenitsyn,Thomas P. Whitney,+1 more

1973 • 194 Readers • 676 pages • 4

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

ByWilliam L. Shirer

1960 • 364 Readers • 1,245 pages • 4.3

Lords of Finance

ByLiaquat Ahamed

2009 • 45 Readers • 564 pages • 4.4

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

ByIris Chang

1997 • 231 Readers • 290 pages • 4.2

Mao

ByJung Chang,Jon Halliday

2002 • 18 Readers • 801 pages • 4.5

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

BySiddhartha Mukherjee

2010 • 413 Readers • 571 pages • 4.2

Fermat's last theorem

BySimon Singh,John Lynch, scénariste

1997 • 155 Readers • 384 pages • 4.1

17 Anti-Procrastination Hacks: How to Stop Being Lazy, Overcome Procrastination, and Finally Get Stuff Done

ByDominic Mann

2016 • 2 Readers • 2

#10

The Naked Ape

ByDesmond Morris

1999 • 17 Readers • 260 pages • 4

#11

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

ByCaitlin Doughty

2017 • 264 Readers • 4.3

#12

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

The Third Chimpanzee

ByJared Diamond

1991 • 60 Readers • 407 pages • 4.1

#13

No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die

ByEloy Rodrigo Colombo,Lorena Souza(Translator)

1 Reader

#14

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

ByDaniel H. Pink

2009 • 375 Readers • 256 pages • 3.9

#15

#2 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Collapse

ByJared Diamond

2005 • 252 Readers • 608 pages • 3.9

#16

Decision Theory: A Brief Introduction

BySven Ove Hansson

1994 • 1 Reader • 94 pages

#17

Energy and Civilization: A History

ByVaclav Smil

2017 • 65 Readers • 568 pages • 3.6

#18

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology

ByChris Chambers

2017 • 3 Readers • 288 pages • 4

#19

#1 of 12 in Rich Dad

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

ByRobert T. Kiyosaki,Sharon L. Lechter

1 • 435 Readers • 228 pages • 3.5

#20

Economics of Criminal Law

BySteven D. Levitt(Editor),Thomas J. Miles(Editor)

1 Reader

#21

Jerusalem: The Biography

BySimon Sebag Montefiore

2011 • 52 Readers • 672 pages • 4.1

#22

The art of choosing

BySheena Iyengar

1989 • 24 Readers • 329 pages • 3

#23

#2 of 4 in Freakonomics

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

BySteven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner

2009 • 212 Readers • 270 pages • 3.8

#24

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

BySam Kean

2010 • 230 Readers • 391 pages • 4

#25

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

ByMatthew Walker

2017 • 878 Readers • 360 pages • 4.3

#26

Outliers: The Story of Success

ByMalcolm Gladwell

2008 • 987 Readers • 321 pages • 4

#27

Blink

ByMalcolm Gladwell

2004 • 698 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

#28

Life and Death in Shanghai

ByNien Cheng

1986 • 10 Readers • 668 pages • 4

#29

Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost

ByJonathan Fenby

2003 • 1 Reader

#30

#1 of 3 in People's Trilogy

Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

ByFrank Dikötter

2010 • 33 Readers • 448 pages • 3.8

#31

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

ByHerbert P. Bix

2000 • 27 Readers • 816 pages

#32

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

ByJack Weatherford

2004 • 282 Readers • 4.2

#33

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

BySteven Johnson

2006 • 218 Readers • 299 pages • 3.9

#34

Stalingrad

ByAntony Beevor,Artemis Cooper

1998 • 96 Readers • 560 pages • 4.5

#35

Jinnah of Pakistan

ByStanley Wolpert

1984 • 3 Readers • 421 pages

#36

Bonhoeffer

ByEric Metaxas

2009 • 60 Readers • 624 pages • 4.2

#37

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

ByAdrian Goldsworthy

2006 • 38 Readers • 583 pages • 4

#38

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

ByAbhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo

2019 • 118 Readers • 432 pages • 4.1

#39

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

ByYuval Noah Harari

2018 • 512 Readers • 320 pages • 4

#40

#1 of 3 in The Undercover Economist

The Undercover Economist

ByTim Harford

2005 • 93 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

#41

Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

ByTim Harford

2017 • 29 Readers • 336 pages • 3.6

#42

How to Make the World Add Up Ten Rules for Thinking Differently about Numbers

ByTim Harford

2021 • 28 Readers • 352 pages • 4.1

#43

O que os números escondem: 10 regras para aprender a decifrar informação e compreender melhor o mundo

ByTim Harford

2020 • 1 Reader

#44

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

ByBurton G. Malkiel

2020 • 81 Readers • 480 pages • 4.1

#45

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America

ByLawrence A. Cunningham,Warren E. Buffett

1 Reader

#46

Stocks for the Long Run

ByJeremy J. Siegel

2002 • 11 Readers • 424 pages • 4

#47

#396 of 1 in Wiley Finance

Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

ByBruce C. Greenwald,Judd Kahn,+3 more

2001 • 2 Readers

#48

The investment checklist

ByMichael Shearn

2011 • 2 Readers • 384 pages

#49

Factfulness

ByHans Rosling

29 • 684 Readers • 352 pages • 4.4

#50

Principles: Life and Work

ByRay Dalio

2011 • 310 Readers • 592 pages • 3.7

#51

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

ByChris Miller

2022 • 222 Readers • 352 pages • 4.2

#52

The Box

ByMarc Levinson

2006 • 71 Readers • 400 pages • 3.8

#55

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Guns, Germs and Steel

ByJared Diamond

1998 • 838 Readers • 480 pages • 3.9

#56

The Generalissimo

ByJay Taylor

2009 • 3 Readers • 737 pages

#57

Taiwan: A New History

ByMurray A. Rubinstein

1997 • 3 Readers • 650 pages

#62

Embracing Defeat

ByJohn W. Dower

1999 • 27 Readers • 676 pages • 4.2

#64

Team of Rivals

ByDoris Kearns Goodwin

2005 • 257 Readers • 1,277 pages • 4.6

#66

Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan

ByBruce Feiler

1991 • 7 Readers • 321 pages • 3

#67

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

ByTim Butcher

2014 • 18 Readers • 249 pages • 4

#69

Alexander Hamilton

ByRon Chernow

2004 • 379 Readers • 818 pages • 4.4

#70

Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Escape from India's Caste System

ByNarendra Jadhav

1993 • 2 Readers • 322 pages

#73

Napoleon

ByAndrew Roberts

2014 • 96 Readers • 926 pages • 4.5

#74

Steve Jobs

ByWalter Isaacson

2011 • 935 Readers • 656 pages • 4.2

#76

#1 of 3 in The Romanovs

Peter the Great

ByRobert K. Massie

1980 • 26 Readers • 18 pages • 3.5

#83

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings

ByPhilip A. Fisher

1957 • 20 Readers • 292 pages • 4.2

#85

The Intelligent Investor

ByBenjamin Graham

1949 • 274 Readers • 623 pages • 4

#88

Security Analysis: Principles and Technique

ByBenjamin Graham,David Dodd

1934 • 30 Readers • 784 pages • 4.8

Mountaineering

ByThe Mountaineers Club

1960 • 3 Readers • 575 pages

#1 of 4 in Freakonomics

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

BySteven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner

2005 • 979 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

Thinking, Fast and Slow

ByDaniel Kahneman

2011 • 1,458 Readers • 499 pages • 4.1

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

ByDan Ariely

2008 • 403 Readers • 304 pages • 4.1

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

ByDavid I. Kertzer

2014 • 15 Readers • 3.3

#4 of 4 in Freakonomics

When to Rob a Bank

BySteven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner

2015 • 55 Readers • 387 pages • 3.4

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

ByCarlo Rovelli

2014 • 256 Readers • 96 pages • 3.9

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

ByFrans de Waal

2016 • 147 Readers • 340 pages • 4

AATSEEL

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

ByAleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1962 • 266 Readers • 104 pages • 3.8

Empress Dowager Cixi

ByJung Chang

2013 • 26 Readers • 460 pages • 3.8

Our Inner Ape

ByFrans de Waal

2006 • 9 Readers • 320 pages

Everybody Lies

BySeth Stephens-Davidowitz

2017 • 219 Readers • 352 pages • 3.7

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

ByThomas Piketty,Arthur Goldhammer(Translator)

2013 • 251 Readers • 685 pages • 4.1

Blood River

ByTim Butcher

2007 • 34 Readers • 363 pages • 3.8

The Story of Art

ByE.H. Gombrich

1950 • 109 Readers • 688 pages • 4.1

Superforecasting

ByPhilip E. Tetlock,Dan Gardner

2015 • 132 Readers • 354 pages • 3.7

Manufacturing Consent

ByEdward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky

2002 • 248 Readers • 482 pages • 4

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

ByDouglas R. Hofstadter

1979 • 506 Readers • 832 pages • 4.4

#1 of 5 in Politics of Place

Prisoners of Geography

ByTim Marshall

2015 • 316 Readers • 256 pages • 3.9

Journey through Genius

ByWilliam Dunham

1991 • 18 Readers • 321 pages • 4.4

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

BySimon Singh

1996 • 218 Readers • 434 pages • 4.2

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

BySimon Sebag Montefiore

2016 • 101 Readers • 4.2

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

ByYuval Noah Harari

2011 • 2,177 Readers • 443 pages • 4.2

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

ByNeil Gaiman

2016 • 128 Readers • 544 pages • 3.9

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