Curated category · 2006—2025
Best nonfiction
Award-winning and editorially recommended nonfiction across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.
- Selections
- 1591
- Authors
- 1442
- Lists & prizes
- 4
Showing 49–80 of 80
Slice Harvester: A Memoir In Pizza
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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga
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The Argonauts
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The Art Of Memoir
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The Big Green Tent: A Novel
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The Dark Net: Inside The Digital Underworld
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The Fly Trap
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The Invention of Nature
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Jemima Code: Two Centuries Of African American Cookbooks
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The Light Of The World: A Memoir
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The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook
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The New Tsar: The Rise And Reign Of Vladimir Putin
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Speechwriter: A Brief Education In Politics
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
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The Wright Brothers
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True Thai: Real Flavors For Every Table
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Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
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We Were Brothers
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Welcome To Braggsville
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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
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Words Without Music: A Memoir
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