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
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A Ghost in the Throat
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A Singing Army: Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School
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Aftershocks: A Memoir
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Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
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Amoralman: A True Story and Other Lies
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Appleseed: A Novel
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Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir
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Broken Horses: A Memoir
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Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai
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Certain and Impossible Events
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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Chetna's 30 Minute Indian: Quick and Easy Everyday Meals
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Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
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Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
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Cook Real Hawai'i
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Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach & Recipes to Repeat
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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Versus the Latino Resistance
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Eat, Habibi, Eat!: Fresh Recipes for Modern Egyptian Cooking
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
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Folklorn
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
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Gentrifier: A Memoir
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House of Sticks: A Memoir
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How the Word Is Passed
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Hummingbird Salamander: A Novel
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Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
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I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
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Invisible Child
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch
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Just as I Am: A Memoir
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