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  1. 1A Promised LandBarack Obama · 2020 · 2 honors
  2. 2Hidden Valley Road: Inside The Mind Of An American FamilyRobert Kolker · 2020 · 2 honors
  3. 3The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XLes Payne and Tamara Payne · 2020 · 2 honors
  4. 4100 Cookies: The Baking Book For Every KitchenSarah Kieffer · 2020 · 1 honor
  5. 5A Silenced Voice: The Life Of Journalist Kim WallIngrid Wall and Joachim Wall · 2020 · 1 honor
  6. 6Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, And The Meaning Of SexAngela Chen · 2020 · 1 honor
  7. 7Alien Oceans: The Search For Life In The Depths Of SpaceKevin Hand · 2020 · 1 honor
  8. 8All The Way To The Tigers: A MemoirMary Morris · 2020 · 1 honor
  9. 9American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps, And The Marriage Of Money And PowerAndrea Bernstein · 2020 · 1 honor
  10. 10Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs Of A Neurotic FilmmakerBarry Sonnenfeld · 2020 · 1 honor
  11. 11Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, And Compromise In Putin's RussiaJoshua Yaffa · 2020 · 1 honor
  12. 12Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other CloseAminatou Sow and Ann Friedman · 2020 · 1 honor
  13. 13Blood On The River: A Chronicle Of Mutiny And Freedom On The Wild CoastMarjoleine Kars · 2020 · 1 honor
  14. 14Born To Be PublicGreg Mania · 2020 · 1 honor
  15. 15Breath: The New Science Of A Lost ArtJames Nestor · 2020 · 1 honor
  16. 16Broken Faith: Inside The Word Of Faith Fellowship, One Of America's Most Dangerous CultsMitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr · 2020 · 1 honor
  17. 17Capital And IdeologyThomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer · 2020 · 1 honor
  18. 18Caste: The Origins Of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson · 2020 · 1 honor
  19. 19Children Of The Land: A MemoirMarcelo Hernandez Castillo · 2020 · 1 honor
  20. 20Clean: The New Science Of SkinJames Hamblin · 2020 · 1 honor
  21. 21Conditional Citizens: On Belonging In AmericaLaila Lalami · 2020 · 1 honor
  22. 22Cook With Me: 150 Recipes For The Home CookAlex Guarnaschelli · 2020 · 1 honor
  23. 23Cooking For One: Scaled Recipes, No-Waste Solutions, And Time-Saving TipsAmerica's Test Kitchen · 2020 · 1 honor
  24. 24Cool Beans: The Ultimate Guide To Cooking With The World's Most Versatile Plant-Based Protein, With 125 RecipesJoe Yonan · 2020 · 1 honor
  25. 25Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music And Changed American CultureGrace Elizabeth Hale · 2020 · 1 honor
  26. 26Counterpoint: A Memoir Of Bach And MourningPhilip Kennicott · 2020 · 1 honor
  27. 27Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's JourneyBob Avian with Tom Santopietro · 2020 · 1 honor
  28. 28Desert Notebooks: A Road Map For The End Of TimeBen Ehrenreich · 2020 · 1 honor
  29. 29Dessert Person: Recipes And Guidance For Baking With ConfidenceClaire Saffitz · 2020 · 1 honor
  30. 30Dinner In French: My Recipes By Way Of FranceMelissa Clark · 2020 · 1 honor
  31. 31Dirt: Adventures In Lyon As A Chef In Training, Father, And Sleuth Looking For The Secret Of French CookingBill Buford · 2020 · 1 honor
  32. 32East: 120 Vegan And Vegetarian Recipes From Bangalore To BeijingMeera Sodha · 2020 · 1 honor
  33. 33Eat A Peach: A MemoirDavid Chang with Gabe Ulla · 2020 · 1 honor
  34. 34Eat The Buddha: Life And Death In A Tibetan TownBarbara Demick · 2020 · 1 honor
  35. 35Everything Man: The Form And Function Of Paul RobesonShana L. Redmond · 2020 · 1 honor
  36. 36Falastin: A CookbookSami Tamimi and Tara Wigley · 2020 · 1 honor
  37. 37Family In Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, An American DaughterLan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao · 2020 · 1 honor
  38. 38Father Of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest To Save Mosul's ZooLouise Callaghan · 2020 · 1 honor
  39. 39Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion ManifestoMiren Arzalluz · 2020 · 1 honor
  40. 40Ghosting The News: Local Journalism And The Crisis Of American DemocracyMargaret Sullivan · 2020 · 1 honor
  41. 41Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke The BinarySasha Geffen · 2020 · 1 honor
  42. 42God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons From The BronxDesus & Mero · 2020 · 1 honor
  43. 43Hanging Tree GuitarsFreeman Vines with Zoe van Buren, photography by Timothy Duffy · 2020 · 1 honor
  44. 44His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A LifeJonathan Alter · 2020 · 1 honor
  45. 45Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, And The Dangerous Distortion Of TruthBrian Stelter · 2020 · 1 honor
  46. 46How To Wash The DishesPeter Miller · 2020 · 1 honor
  47. 47I Got A Monster: The Rise And Fall Of America's Most Corrupt Police SquadBaynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg · 2020 · 1 honor
  48. 48I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust MemoirEsther Safran Foer · 2020 · 1 honor
  49. 49In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes And Stories Of Grandmothers From The Eight African Countries That Touch The Indian OceanHawa Hassan with Julia Turshen · 2020 · 1 honor
  50. 50Inventing Latinos: A New Story Of American RacismLaura E. Gómez · 2020 · 1 honor
  51. 51Lakewood: A NovelMegan Giddings · 2020 · 1 honor
  52. 52Larger Than Life: A History Of Boy Bands From NKOTB To BTSMaria Sherman · 2020 · 1 honor
  53. 53Later: My Life At The Edge Of The WorldPaul Lisicky · 2020 · 1 honor
  54. 54Legendary Children: The First Decade Of RuPaul’s Drag Race And The Last Century Of Queer LifeTom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez · 2020 · 1 honor
  55. 55Life Of A Klansman: A Family History In White SupremacyEdward Ball · 2020 · 1 honor
  56. 56Looking To Get Lost: Adventures In Music And WritingPeter Guralnick · 2020 · 1 honor
  57. 57Magnetized: Conversations With A Serial KillerCarlos Busqued, translated by Samuel Rutter · 2020 · 1 honor
  58. 58Me And White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change The World, And Become A Good AncestorLayla F. Saad · 2020 · 1 honor
  59. 59Memorial Drive: A Daughter's MemoirNatasha Trethewey · 2020 · 1 honor
  60. 60Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningCathy Park Hong · 2020 · 1 honor
  61. 61Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes From A Disappearing BayouMelissa M. Martin · 2020 · 1 honor
  62. 62MS-13: The Making Of America's Most Notorious GangSteven Dudley · 2020 · 1 honor
  63. 63Mutations: The Many Strange Faces Of Hardcore PunkSam McPheeters · 2020 · 1 honor
  64. 64My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers: A MemoirJenn Shapland · 2020 · 1 honor
  65. 65Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education In Protest And PowerJennifer Worley · 2020 · 1 honor
  66. 66New World Sourdough: Artisan Techniques For Creative Homemade Fermented BreadsBryan Ford · 2020 · 1 honor
  67. 67Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar And The Afghan Islamists Who Changed The WorldChris Sands with Fazelminallah Qazizai · 2020 · 1 honor
  68. 68No Filter: The Inside Story Of InstagramSarah Frier · 2020 · 1 honor
  69. 69No Rules Rules: Netflix And The Culture Of ReinventionReed Hastings and Erin Meyer · 2020 · 1 honor
  70. 70Notes On A Silencing: A MemoirLacy Crawford · 2020 · 1 honor
  71. 71Once I Was You: A Memoir Of Love And Hate In A Torn AmericaMaria Hinojosa · 2020 · 1 honor
  72. 72One LifeMegan Rapinoe and Emma Brockes · 2020 · 1 honor
  73. 73Ottolenghi Flavor: A CookbookYotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage · 2020 · 1 honor
  74. 74Owls Of The Eastern Ice: A Quest To Find And Save The World's Largest OwlJonathan C. Slaght · 2020 · 1 honor
  75. 75Pie Academy: Master The Perfect Crust And 255 Amazing FillingsKen Haedrich · 2020 · 1 honor
  76. 76Political Sign (Object Lessons)Tobias Carroll · 2020 · 1 honor
  77. 77Quick & Delicious: 100 Recipes To Cook In 30 Minutes Or LessGordon Ramsay · 2020 · 1 honor
  78. 78Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases Of The Civil Rights EraJerry Mitchell · 2020 · 1 honor
  79. 79Race For Profit: How Banks And The Real Estate Industry Undermined Black HomeownershipKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · 2020 · 1 honor
  80. 80RemembranceRita Woods · 2020 · 1 honor
  81. 81Roadside Americans: The Rise And Fall Of Hitchhiking In A Changing NationJack Reid · 2020 · 1 honor
  82. 82Rust Belt FemmeRaechel Anne Jolie · 2020 · 1 honor
  83. 83Rust: A Memoir Of Steel And GritEliese Goldbach · 2020 · 1 honor
  84. 84See You On Sunday: A Cookbook For Family And FriendsSam Sifton · 2020 · 1 honor
  85. 85Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study Of Sex, Power, And Assault On CampusJennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan · 2020 · 1 honor
  86. 86Shakespeare in a Divided AmericaJames Shapiro · 2020 · 1 honor
  87. 87Simply: Easy Everyday DishesSabrina Ghayour · 2020 · 1 honor
  88. 88Sisters In Hate: American Women On The Front Lines Of White NationalismSeyward Darby · 2020 · 1 honor
  89. 89Swimming In The Dark: A NovelTomasz Jedrowski · 2020 · 1 honor
  90. 90The Apple Lover's Cookbook: Revised And UpdatedAmy Traverso · 2020 · 1 honor
  91. 91The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas IllustratedGertrude Stein, illustrated by Maira Kalman · 2020 · 1 honor
  92. 92The Book Collectors: A Band Of Syrian Rebels And The Stories That Carried Them Through A WarDelphine Minoui, translated by Lara Vergnaud · 2020 · 1 honor
  93. 93The Book Of Atlantis Black: The Search For A Sister Gone MissingBetsy Bonner · 2020 · 1 honor
  94. 94The Care and Feeding Of Waspish WidowsOlivia Waite · 2020 · 1 honor
  95. 95The Chiffon Trenches: A MemoirAndré Leon Talley · 2020 · 1 honor
  96. 96The Deepest South Of All: True Stories From Natchez, MississippiRichard Grant · 2020 · 1 honor
  97. 97The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of AmericaGreg Grandin · 2020 · 1 honor
  98. 98The Full Plate: Flavor-Filled, Easy Recipes For Families With No Time And A Lot To DoAyesha Curry · 2020 · 1 honor
  99. 99The Human Cosmos: Civilization And The StarsJo Marchant · 2020 · 1 honor
  100. 100The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRueV.E. Schwab · 2020 · 1 honor
  101. 101The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade And The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our WorldVincent Bevins · 2020 · 1 honor
  102. 102The Journeys Of Trees: A Story About Forests, People, And The FutureZach St. George · 2020 · 1 honor
  103. 103The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons From World War To Cold WarDavid Nasaw · 2020 · 1 honor
  104. 104The Look Of The Book: Jackets, Covers, And Art At The Edges Of LiteraturePeter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth · 2020 · 1 honor
  105. 105The Meaning Of Mariah CareyMariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis · 2020 · 1 honor
  106. 106The Mirror & The LightHilary Mantel · 2020 · 1 honor
  107. 107The Mountains SingNguyễn Phan Quế Mai · 2020 · 1 honor
  108. 108The New Map: Energy, Climate And The Clash Of NationsDaniel Yergin · 2020 · 1 honor
  109. 109The Night WatchmanLouise Erdrich · 2020 · 1 honor
  110. 110The Riches Of This LandJim Tankersley · 2020 · 1 honor
  111. 111The Shadow KingMaaza Mengiste · 2020 · 1 honor
  112. 112The Splendid And The Vile: A Saga Of Churchill, Family, And Defiance During The BlitzErik Larson · 2020 · 1 honor
  113. 113The Sprawl: Reconsidering The Weird American SuburbsJason Diamond · 2020 · 1 honor
  114. 114The Things They FanciedMolly Young · 2020 · 1 honor
  115. 115The Undocumented AmericansKarla Cornejo Villavicencio · 2020 · 1 honor
  116. 116The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and CareAnne Boyer · 2020 · 1 honor
  117. 117The Wax Pack: On The Open Road In Search Of Baseball's AfterlifeBrad Balukjian · 2020 · 1 honor
  118. 118To Calais, In Ordinary TimeJames Meek · 2020 · 1 honor
  119. 119Transcendent Kingdom: A NovelYaa Gyasi · 2020 · 1 honor
  120. 120Trouble The Saints: A NovelAlaya Dawn Johnson · 2020 · 1 honor
  121. 121Uncanny ValleyAnna Wiener · 2020 · 1 honor
  122. 122Uncanny Valley: A MemoirAnna Wiener · 2020 · 1 honor
  123. 123Unspeakable Acts: True Tales Of Crime, Murder, Deceit, And ObsessionSarah Weinman (editor) · 2020 · 1 honor
  124. 124Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession Of Native Americans And The Road To Indian TerritoryClaudio Saunt · 2020 · 1 honor
  125. 125Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, And The Birth Of 24-Hour NewsLisa Napoli · 2020 · 1 honor
  126. 126Wagnerism: Art And Politics In The Shadow Of MusicAlex Ross · 2020 · 1 honor
  127. 127WarMargaret MacMillan · 2020 · 1 honor
  128. 128What Can A Body Do?: How We Meet The Built WorldSara Hendren · 2020 · 1 honor
  129. 129Whistleblower: My Journey To Silicon Valley And Fight For Justice At UberSusan Fowler · 2020 · 1 honor
  130. 130Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story Of Loss, Love, And The Hidden Order Of LifeLulu Miller · 2020 · 1 honor
  131. 131Why We SwimBonnie Tsui · 2020 · 1 honor
  132. 132Wintering: The Power Of Rest And Retreat In Difficult TimesKatherine May · 2020 · 1 honor
  133. 133X+Y: A Mathematician's Manifesto For Rethinking GenderEugenia Cheng · 2020 · 1 honor
  134. 134Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, And A Woman's Search For Justice In Indian CountrySierra Crane Murdoch · 2020 · 1 honor
  135. 135You Never Forget Your First: A Biography Of George WashingtonAlexis Coe · 2020 · 1 honor