15 Nonfiction Books That Will Expand Your Mind

In this episode, Jordan takes viewers through his favorite nonfiction books of all time. These 15 books will change your life.
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[readbykyle]

Yesss The Righteous Mind is so good! I've read it three times and that along with Factfulness by Hans Rosling and Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker would probably be the three nonfiction books I'd recommend to just about anyone. Haidt's new book The Anxious Generation is incredibly good as well. Thanks for the list, many of these were already on my TBR and I added most of the new ones as well.

[NovemXI]

Great list. I think you’d very much enjoy Junger’s Forest Passage and Alamariu's Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy if you haven’t read them already. Selective Breeding in particular gave me a whole new view on Socrates and Plato.

[pattidoyle]

These books seem to have a conservative bent (I may have misread that, I am aware) but I really love this list. It will balance out my other readings. I love reading books that wrestle with each other! 😂
Without hearing multiple sides we can’t understand anything deeply, so thank you for this smart and interesting list.
I also appreciate the books that introduce philosophy in a big picture way, it will help me learn enough to determine where to dive deeper.
Thank you for this helpful video.

[greblaksnew]

Cool list. TY. I'll def add some. I've read The Rise and Fall... and Sexual Personae. On mind expanding, especially since you're an author, you might like Frye's Anatomy of Criticism.

[someokiedude]

"I actually really like controversial books." Really? I wouldn't have noticed until now. Lol.

Some interesting choices, even ones I've read like The Closing of The American Mind, which I read with my high school English teacher and The Existentialist Cafe, which I did a book report on when I was in high school. I also really enjoyed Bloom's last book Love and Friendship, which might have some of the best takes on Shakespeare that I've ever read, not to discount Harold Bloom anyway.

Those other books you mention sound really fascinating, I'll have to add them to the ever expanding, always growing TBR list. I always find it hard to pick non fiction books and critique them because...they're real stories and all that. But here's some I really enjoy:

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound: One of the best books about John Coltrane, and jazz, that I've read yet. This book isn't about the what, but why and how Coltrane created the music he did. It may be due for a re-read sometime soon.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Malcolm X is a gifted storyteller, and having Alex Haley to help you write it helps a lot too. It might be my favorite book about the African American experience during Jim Crow, and it's an unforgettable book once you read it.

Into The Wild: It might be my favorite nonfiction narrative book that I've read. It didn't cynically mock Chris McCandless because of how stupid he was for doing what he did (though it does acknowledge his lack of foresight). It illustrates the tragedy of Chris' desire to live a more meaningful life, and all the people he touched along the way before he made his fateful trip to Alaska. It's some great stuff.

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: An unflinching and raw take on addiction, Bill Clegg writes with the skill of a seasoned novelist and shows what it's like to lose everything to drugs, and how Clegg decided to finally get his life on track. It really affected me as an 8th grader reading this.


Great video man!