Best Non-Fiction books I read in 2004
Discover the best non-fiction books of 2004 with my top reads list. Explore insightful, award-winning, and must-read titles that captivated readers this year.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that …
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In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia. His previous excursion along the Appalachian …
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Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in …
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Opening Skinner's Box
by Lauren Slater
Traces developments in human psychology over the course of the twentieth century, beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of the child raised in …
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The Blank Slate
by Steven Pinker
Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them.".
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The Age of Sacred Terror
by Daniel Benjamin
Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations From two of the world’s foremost experts on the new terrorism …
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The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester
Mysterious (mistîe · ries), a. [f. L. mystérium Mysteryi + ous. Cf. F. mystérieux.] 1. Full of or fraught with mystery; wrapt in mystery; hidden …
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The New Work of Dogs
by Jon Katz
The author uses twelve human-dog relationships to explore the changing role of dogs in American life, examining the current need for dogs to provide emotional …