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 97–122 of 122
The Loneliest Americans
NPR Books We Love
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
NPR Books We Love
The Prisoner: A Memoir
NPR Books We Love
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
NPR Books We Love
The Twisted Soul Cookbook: Modern Soul Food with Global Flavors
NPR Books We Love
This is Your Mind on Plants
NPR Books We Love
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
NPR Books We Love
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
NPR Books We Love
Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire
NPR Books We Love
We Are Bridges: A Memoir
NPR Books We Love
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
NPR Books We Love
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction