(Serious) New Cook: Recipes, Tips, and Techniques
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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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A Good Day to Bake: Simple Baking Recipes for Every Mood
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A House Between Earth and the Moon: A Novel
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Acceptance: A Memoir
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Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career
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America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir
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An Immense World
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Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
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Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
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Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
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Chinese-Ish: Home Cooking Not Quite Authentic, 100% Delicious
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Colu Cooks: Easy Fancy Food
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
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Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew
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Delicious Gatherings: Recipes to Celebrate Together
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Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir
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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
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Fruit Punch: A Memoir
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Glory: A Novel
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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
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I Am From Here: Stories and Recipes From a Southern Chef
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
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I'm Not Broken: A Memoir
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Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World
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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
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In Sensorium: Notes for My People
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction