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Curated category · 2006—2025
Best nonfiction
Award-winning and editorially recommended nonfiction across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.
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Wave
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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Wilson
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Zen Confidential: Confessions Of A Wayward Monk
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Far From the Tree
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Passage of Power
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Patriarch
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
A World on Fire
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Arguably
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Malcolm X
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Boy in the Moon
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Apollo's Angels
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Cleopatra
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Finishing the Hat
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Just Kids
National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Emperor of All Maladies
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Warmth of Other Suns
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Lit
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Lords of Finance
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Raymond Carver
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Age of Wonder
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Good Soldiers
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Dark Side
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Forever War
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
National Book Award for Nonfiction
The World Is What It Is
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
This Republic of Suffering
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Little Heathens
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Nine
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Rest Is Noise
The New York Times — 10 Best Books