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 129
Let's Party: Recipes and Menus for Celebrating Every Day
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Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist
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Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
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Long Day? Cook This. Easy East Asian Recipes with a Twist
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Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
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Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
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Memorial Days: A Memoir
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Milk Street Backroads Italy: Finding Italy's Forgotten Recipes
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Mother Emanuel
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Mother Mary Comes to Me
On 2 lists: NPR Books We Love, The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
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Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City
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No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce
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Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President
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Notes to John
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Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart
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On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary
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Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
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Persiana Easy
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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
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Raising Hare: A Memoir
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Recipes from the American South
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Salsa Daddy: A Cookbook: Dip Your Way Into Mexican Cooking
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Self-Sabotage: And Other Ways I've Spent My Time
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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She's Under Here: A Memoir
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Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
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Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell
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Spread Me
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Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life
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The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
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The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
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