What are the must-read classics of non-fiction? We’ve scraped, collated and summarised a selection of “all-time” book polls, prize-winners and readers’ picks to assemble a visual consensus.

We mixed high-brow and low-brow. There are Pulitzer prize winners as well as lists from Time, the Times Literary Supplement and – of course – the Guardian, as well as the wisdom of the crowd in sources such as TheGreatestBooks, GoodReads, and AskMetafilter.

Here, filterable by genre, are 64 non-fiction books you really should read. But what do you make of our data? How many of these classics have you already tackled and what are the must-read titles that we’ve missed? Explain your choices below – we’ll select the best for a readers’ chart

• This graphic is from Knowledge is Beautiful by David McCandless

• The 100 greatest non-fiction books





