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Nonfiction & ideas

Order by year of first publication. You place all 41 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How the nonfiction books timeline game works

Influential nonfiction books are the cards here, with the author's name printed under each title, and you're ordering them by the year each was first published. One book is already on the timeline with its year showing. Every new card goes into a gap: before, between or after the books placed. If you pick correctly, the year appears; if you don't, the book still lands in its proper spot and you're down one of three lives.

Political philosophy, economics, science, true crime, memoir and self-help all sit on the same shelf, stretching from the classics of political thought to recent bestsellers. That recent shelf is very full. Knowing the author helps most with the older books; with modern ones, try to remember when everyone seemed to be talking about them. Popular science titles and memoirs blur together quickly, so expect close calls there.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 10 times. An average run places 3.6 cards, and 55% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 41 cards you might be dealt, with 13 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
  • The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
  • Das Kapital Karl Marx
  • The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud
  • The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes
  • The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
  • Silent Spring Rachel Carson
  • The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan
  • In Cold Blood Truman Capote
  • The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
  • The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
  • Chaos: Making a New Science James Gleick
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
  • Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
  • The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
  • Freakonomics Levitt & Dubner
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan
  • Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
  • Quiet Susan Cain
  • The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk
  • Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Why We Sleep Matthew Walker
  • Atomic Habits James Clear
  • Educated Tara Westover
  • Caste Isabel Wilkerson

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