Nonfiction Books in English
Browse 55 nonfiction books in English to learn English with tap-to-translate in the Clue app. Reading in a single genre is one of the fastest ways to expand vocabulary.
55 books in Nonfiction · Page 1 of 2
A General View of Positivism
Auguste Comte
Advanced (C1–C2)
A Voice from the South
Anna Julia Cooper
Advanced (C1–C2)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
Advanced (C1–C2)
Aspects of the Novel
E. M. Forster
Advanced (C1–C2)
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Advanced (C1–C2)
Culture and Anarchy
Matthew Arnold
Advanced (C1–C2)
Darkwater
W. E. B. Du Bois
Advanced (C1–C2)
Democracy and Education
John Dewey
Advanced (C1–C2)
Democracy and Social Ethics
Jane Addams
Advanced (C1–C2)
Dialogues
Seneca
Advanced (C1–C2)
Dialogues
Plato
Advanced (C1–C2)
Essays
Henry David Thoreau
Advanced (C1–C2)
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advanced (C1–C2)
Human Nature and Conduct
John Dewey
Advanced (C1–C2)
In Darkest London
Ada Elizabeth Chesterton
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Mutual Aid
Peter Kropotkin
Advanced (C1–C2)
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Advanced (C1–C2)
No Treason
Lysander Spooner
Advanced (C1–C2)
On the Art of Reading
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Advanced (C1–C2)
Philosophical Works
René Descartes
Advanced (C1–C2)
Polynesian Mythology
George Grey
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Principia Ethica
G. E. Moore
Advanced (C1–C2)
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
R. H. Tawney
Advanced (C1–C2)
Representative Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advanced (C1–C2)
Roads to Freedom
Bertrand Russell
Advanced (C1–C2)
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
John Locke
Advanced (C1–C2)
Sticks and Stones
Lewis Mumford
Advanced (C1–C2)
Table-Talk
William Hazlitt
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Acquisitive Society
R. H. Tawney
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Book of Tea
Okakura Kakuzō
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Crowd
Gustave Le Bon
Advanced (C1–C2)
The End of the World
Geoffrey Dennis
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Hashish Eater
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Humbugs of the World
P. T. Barnum
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Middle Five
Francis La Flesche
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Mirror of the Sea
Joseph Conrad
Advanced (C1–C2)
The National Being
George William Russell
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
George Gissing
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Story of Utopias
Lewis Mumford
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm
Advanced (C1–C2)
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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