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 193–240 of 1591
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
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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
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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
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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
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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives
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The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
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The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
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The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir
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The Mesmerist
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The Message
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The Mountains Are High
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The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
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The Spamalot Diaries
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The Stardust Grail
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The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
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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
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
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Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
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Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
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War
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What Goes with What: 100 Recipes, 20 Charts, Endless Possibilities
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What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life
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Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
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A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
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A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard
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A Splash of Soy: Everyday Food from Asia
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All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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