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 97–129 of 129
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
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The Illiterate
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The Last Animal
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The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García
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The Queer Film Guide: 100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories
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The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life
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The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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The Woman in Me
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The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope
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The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother
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Thicker Than Water: A Memoir
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To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
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Transplant: A Memoir
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Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
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Whalefall
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
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Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
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Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions
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