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 49–96 of 105
No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
NPR Books We Love
Nuclear War: A Scenario
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Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
NPR Books We Love
Pass the Plate: 100 Delicious, Highly Shareable, Everyday Recipes
NPR Books We Love
Patriot: A Memoir
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Phantom Orbit: A Thriller
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Piglet
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Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
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Playground
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Reagan
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
NPR Books We Love
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
NPR Books We Love
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
NPR Books We Love
Sociopath: A Memoir
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
Sprout & Co Saladology: Fresh Ideas for Delicious Salads
NPR Books We Love
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
NPR Books We Love
Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
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The Burning Earth: A History
NPR Books We Love
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
NPR Books We Love
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
NPR Books We Love
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
NPR Books We Love
The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
NPR Books We Love
The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir
NPR Books We Love
The Mesmerist
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The Message
NPR Books We Love
The Mountains Are High
NPR Books We Love
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
NPR Books We Love
The Spamalot Diaries
NPR Books We Love
The Stardust Grail
NPR Books We Love
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
NPR Books We Love
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
On 2 lists: NPR Books We Love, The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
NPR Books We Love
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
NPR Books We Love