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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- Lists & prizes
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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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American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
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An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
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Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling
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Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
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Biography of X
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Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity
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Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
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Chetna's Indian Feasts: Everyday meals and easy entertaining
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Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance
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Company: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others
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Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
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Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music
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Ed Mitchell's Barbeque
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Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
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Feed Them Silence
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Fire Weather
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Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World
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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
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King: A Life
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Land of Milk and Honey
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Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It
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Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives
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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
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Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
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Loot
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