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Curated category · 2006—2025

Best nonfiction

Award-winning and editorially recommended nonfiction across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.

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2021Nonfiction

The Prisoner: A Memoir

Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Anton Hur

NPR Books We Love

2020Nonfiction

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

On 2 lists: NPR Books We Love, The New York Times — 10 Best Books