“What are the best Nonfiction books released in 2019?” We looked at 371 of the top Nonfiction books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 28 books, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Nonfiction” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 325+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
Our other Best Of 2019 Articles:
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The internet isn’t the first technology to alter how we communicate, but it is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. The programmers behind the apps and platforms we use decide how our conversations are structured
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In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a ro
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WINNER OF THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE IN NONFICTION One of the most anticipated books of Fall 2019—as selected by O, The Oprah Magazine; Marie Claire; Entertainment Weekly; Time; The Millions; Refinery29; Good Housekeeping; and many more. “A moving, bracingly ho
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From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. “Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic—smart, engaging, funny, generous, and i
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER “I’ve spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one…Good news: I have finally found their successor.” —Elis
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‘I can’t wait to read it’ Dolly Alderton ‘Extraordinary woman turning pain into power. Chanel Miller, it’s a privilege to know your name, and to celebrate it’ Thandie Newton ‘You are a brave soul. You are more than the identity given to you by the media an
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land’s memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. At 28, Stephanie Land’s plans of breaking free from the roots of her hom
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“From a New York Timesbest-selling writer, psychotherapist, and advice columnist, a brilliant and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist’s world–where her patients are in crisis (and so is she)”–
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–THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER– ‘An invaluable contribution to history.’ Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard ‘Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. Midnight in Chernobyl is wonderful and chilling … written wit
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“Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory…Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy… If you could read one book to comprehend American’s foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksand
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed b
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A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin
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How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurre
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In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era. THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.WE’RE WITCHES,AND WE’RE HUNTING YOU. From the moment powerful men started falling to the
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“In these eight … explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom–award-winning professor and … author of Lower Ed–embraces her … role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much th
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An intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision: to leave their comfortable lives behind and join the Islamic State. In early 2014, the Islamic State clinched its control of Raqqa in Syria. Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, urged
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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Chapter after chapter, it’s like one shattered myth after another.” – NPR “An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait…
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“The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”–Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominate
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A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.
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Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we
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One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR – TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF THE BEST 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR – WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “Masked
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Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, Th
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “THIS IS THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. This is it. This is the one…It blew the top of my head off and I haven’t been able to stop thinking or talking about it since.” —Elizabeth Gilbert “Taddeo spent eight years reporting this g
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The unmissable new book from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Old Ways and The Lost Words ‘You’d be crazy not to read this book’ The Sunday Times ‘Underland is a magnificent feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuine
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A breakout writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture with verve, deftness, and intellectual ferocity–for readers who’ve wondered what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the internet.
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In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION ‘A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she’d spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mes
| # | Books | Authors | Lists |
| 29 | Acid for the Children: A Memoir | Flea | Publishers Weekly |
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| 30 | Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, The World’s Greatest Rodeo, And A Hidden History Of The American West | David Wolman and Julian Smith | BookPage |
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| 31 | American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century | Amazon 2 | |
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| 32 | Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America | James Poniewozik | Publishers Weekly |
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| 33 | Axiomatic | Maria Tumarkin | Book Riot |
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| 34 | Born to Fly: The First Women’s Air Race Across America | Steve Sheinkin | Iowa Public Radio |
| School Library Journal | |||
| 35 | Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration | Emily Bazelon | Publishers Weekly |
| NPR | |||
| 36 | Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century | Charles King | City of Asylum Bookstore |
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| 37 | Good Talk | Mira Jacob | King County Library System |
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| 38 | Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law | BookPage | |
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| 39 | Horizon | Barry Lopez | NPR |
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| 40 | How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy | Jenny Odell | NPR |
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| 41 | How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States | Daniel Immerwahr | Publishers Weekly |
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| 42 | If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded The Commuting Life For A Little House On The Prairie | Christopher Ingraham | NPR |
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| 43 | Late Migrations | Margaret Renkl | Iowa Public Radio |
| City of Asylum Bookstore | |||
| 44 | Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir | T Kira Madden | Book Riot |
| Esquire | |||
| 45 | Make It Scream, Make It Burn | Leslie Jamison | Iowa Public Radio |
| Esquire | |||
| 46 | Maoism: A Global History | Julia Lovell | Five Books |
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| 47 | Moth | Isabel Thomas | Iowa Public Radio |
| School Library Journal | |||
| 48 | No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us | Rachel Louise Snyder | Esquire |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| 49 | Norco ’80: The True Story Of The Most Spectacular Bank Robbery In American History | Peter Houlahan | NPR |
| SheReads | |||
| 50 | Permanent Record | Edward Snowden | NPR |
| Toronto Star | |||
| 51 | Solitary: Unbroken By Four Decades In Solitary Confinement | Albert Woodfox | Publishers Weekly |
| NPR | |||
| 52 | Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come | Jessica Pan | King County Library System |
| SheReads | |||
| 53 | Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber | Mike Isaac | Amazon 2 |
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| 54 | The Body | Bill Bryson | BookPage |
| Iowa Public Radio | |||
| 55 | The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir | Samantha Power | Publishers Weekly |
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| 56 | The Impeachers: The Trial Of Andrew Johnson And The Dream Of A Just Nation | Brenda Wineapple | Publishers Weekly |
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| 57 | The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown | Amazon | |
| School Library Journal | |||
| 58 | The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922–1968 | William Feaver | Publishers Weekly |
| Five Books | |||
| 59 | The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World | USA Today | |
| Goodreads | |||
| 60 | The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across The Last Untamed Frontier | Ian Urbina | Amazon 2 |
| NPR | |||
| 61 | The Undefeated | Kwame Alexander | Amazon |
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| 62 | The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, And Care | Anne Boyer | Book Riot |
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| 63 | This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto | Suketu Mehta | NPR |
| TIME | |||
| 64 | What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir In Essays | Damon Young | City of Asylum Bookstore |
| NPR | |||
| 65 | What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence | Michele Filgate | NPR |
| Esquire | |||
| 66 | Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? | Caitlin Doughty | BookPage |
| King County Library System | |||
| 67 | Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents And Flourishing As We Age | Mary Pipher | King County Library System |
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| 68 | Year of the Monkey | Patti Smith | Readings |
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| 69 | A Bookshop in Berlin | ||
| 70 | A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland | Booklist | |
| 71 | A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life Of Music And Cheap Lessons | Ben Folds | NPR |
| 72 | A Good American Family: The Red Scare And My Father | David Maraniss | NPR |
| 73 | A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration In The 21st Century | Jason DeParle | NPR |
| 74 | A Good Wife | Samra Zafar, with Meg Masters | CBC |
| 75 | A Mind Spread Out on the Ground | Alicia Elliott | CBC |
| 76 | A Place To Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation | School Library Journal | |
| 77 | A Polar Affair | BookPage | |
| 78 | A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past | City of Asylum Bookstore | |
| 79 | A Queer History of the United States for Young People | School Library Journal | |
| 80 | A Summer with Montaigne: On the Art of Living Well | Book Riot | |
| 81 | A True Book: | Booklist 3 | |
| 82 | A Woman Of No Importance: The Untold Story Of The American Spy Who Helped Win World War II | Sonia Purnell | NPR |
| 83 | American like Me: Reflections on Life between Cultures | Booklist | |
| 84 | An American Summer: Love And Death In Chicago | Alex Kotlowitz | NPR |
| 85 | An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People | School Library Journal | |
| 86 | Angry Queer Somali Boy | Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali | CBC |
| 87 | Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation | Andrew Marantz | Publishers Weekly |
| 88 | Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear | Marta’s Muse |
| 89 | Beastly Puzzles: A Brain-Boggling Animal Guessing Game | Rachel Poliquin, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler | Iowa Public Radio |
| 90 | Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do | Jennifer L. Eberhardt | Esquire |
| 91 | Big Wonderful Thing: A History Of Texas | Stephen Harrigan | NPR |
| 92 | Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black Is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings | Booklist | |
| 93 | Blood: A Memoir | Allison Moorer | NPR |
| 94 | Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth | Goodreads | |
| 95 | Brave Face | Shaun David Hutchinson | Chicago Public Library |
| 96 | Breathe: A Letter to My Sons | Book Riot | |
| 97 | Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World | Iowa Public Radio | |
| 98 | Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington’s Mount Vernon | Booklist 2 | |
| 99 | Call Them By Their True Names | Rebecca Solnit | TVexamined |
| 100 | Camgirl | Isa Mazzei | NPR |
| 101 | Captured Television History 4D | Booklist 3 | |
| 102 | Chop Suey Nation | Ann Hui | CBC |
| 103 | Colin McCahon: There is only one direction, Vol 1 1919-1959 | Peter Simpson | newsroom |
| 104 | Collected Schizophrenias | Esme Weijun Wang | Iowa Public Radio |
| 105 | Conservation Success Stories | Booklist 3 | |
| 106 | Cosy | BookPage | |
| 107 | Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide To Better, More Relaxed Parenting, From Birth To Preschool | Emily Oster | NPR |
| 108 | Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History | USA Today | |
| 109 | Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln | Margarita Engle | Iowa Public Radio |
| 110 | Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan | Marginal Revolution | |
| 111 | Daughter of Family G | Ami McKay | CBC |
| 112 | Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power | Book Riot | |
| 113 | Dead People I Have Known | Shayne Carter | newsroom |
| 114 | Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen | Booklist | |
| 115 | Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression | Teresa Wong | SheReads |
| 116 | Defining Documents in American History: LGBTQ+ (1923–2017) | Booklist | |
| 117 | Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World | Cal Newport | Marta’s Muse |
| 118 | Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo | City of Asylum Bookstore | |
| 119 | Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West | Amazon 2 | |
| 120 | Dreyer’s English | Benjamin Dreyer | King County Library System |
| 121 | Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through The Heart Of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom | Adam Chandler | NPR |
| 122 | Edison | Edmund Morris | Publishers Weekly |
| 123 | Elizabethan Globalism: England, China And The Rainbow Portrait | Matthew Dimmock | NPR |
| 124 | Eloquent Rage | Brittney Cooper | TVexamined |
| 125 | Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity | Goodreads | |
| 126 | Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II | School Library Journal | |
| 127 | Epic Continent: Adventures In The Great Stories Of Europe | Nicholas Jubber | NPR |
| 128 | Essays One | Marginal Revolution | |
| 129 | Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope | Goodreads | |
| 130 | Fentanyl, Inc | Marginal Revolution | |
| 131 | Finding Narnia: The Story of C. S. Lewis and His Brother Warnie | Amazon | |
| 132 | Finding the Heart of the Nation | Thomas Mayor | Readings |
| 133 | First: Sandra Day O’Connor | Evan Thomas | NPR |
| 134 | Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution | Marginal Revolution | |
| 135 | Five Days Gone: The Mystery Of My Mother’s Disappearance As A Child | Laura Cumming | NPR |
| 136 | Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life | Book Riot | |
| 137 | Floating Coast: An Environmental History Of The Bering Strait | Bathsheba Demuth | NPR |
| 138 | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics | Booklist | |
| 139 | For Small Creatures Such as We | BookPage | |
| 140 | For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity | Liz Plank | Esquire |
| 141 | Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line | Ryan Leigh Dostie | Esquire |
| 142 | From the Ashes | Jesse Thistle | CBC |
| 143 | Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams | Booklist 2 | |
| 144 | Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany | Amazon | |
| 145 | Gender Queer | Maia Kobabe | King County Library System |
| 146 | Geo Facts | Booklist 3 | |
| 147 | Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals | Goodreads | |
| 148 | God Save The Queens: The Essential History Of Women In Hip-Hop | Kathy Iandoli | NPR |
| 149 | Good To Go: What The Athlete In All Of Us Can Learn From The Strange Science Of Recovery | Christie Aschwanden | NPR |
| 150 | Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness | Goodreads | |
| 151 | Gracefully You: Finding Beauty and Balance in the Everyday | Jenna Dewan | SheReads |
| 152 | Greek to Me | BookPage | |
| 153 | Grow Younger with Great Food | Dr Catherine Stone and Jessica Giljam-Brown | newsroom |
| 154 | Had It Coming | Robyn Doolittle | CBC |
| 155 | Hammering for Freedom. | Booklist 2 | |
| 156 | Happiness Is Baking | Maida Heatter | King County Library System |
| 157 | Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me | Anna Mehler Paperny | CBC |
| 158 | Her Body and Other Parties | Book Riot | |
| 159 | Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares | Aaarti Namdev Shahani | NPR |
| 160 | Hey, Water! | School Library Journal | |
| 161 | Hidden Wonders (Lonely Planet Kids) | Amazon | |
| 162 | High School | Tegan Quin & Sara Quin | CBC |
| 163 | Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz And The Secret History Of L.A. | Lili Anolik | NPR |
| 164 | Horror Stories: A Memoir | Liz Phair | NPR |
| 165 | Hot Comb | Ebony Flowers | NPR |
| 166 | How to Be a Family | BookPage | |
| 167 | How To Build A Dragon Or Die Trying: A Satirical Look At Cutting-Edge Science | Paul Knoepfler and Julie Knoepfler | NPR |
| 168 | How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems | Iowa Public Radio | |
| 169 | I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir | Malaka Gharib | NPR |
| 170 | I’m Trying to Love Math | Amazon | |
| 171 | IBM: The Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon | Marginal Revolution | |
| 172 | In My Own Moccasins | Helen Knott | CBC |
| 173 | In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle With Opioids | Travis Rieder | NPR |
| 174 | In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy | Marginal Revolution | |
| 175 | In The Country Of Women: A Memoir | Susan Straight | NPR |
| 176 | In the Headlines | Booklist 3 | |
| 177 | In Waves | A.J. Dungo | NPR |
| 178 | Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace | Amazon | |
| 179 | Inheritance | Dani Shapiro | King County Library System |
| 180 | Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Criado Perez. | Toronto Star |
| 181 | It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity | School Library Journal | |
| 182 | Janis: Her Life and Music | Holly George-Warren | Publishers Weekly |
| 183 | Jerome Robbins, By Himself: Selections From His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, And An Unfinished Memoir | Jerome Robbins, edited | NPR |
| 184 | Jewish Emancipation: A History of Five Centuries | Marginal Revolution | |
| 185 | Just Like Beverly: A Biography Of Beverly Cleary | Vicki Conrad, illustrated | NPR |
| 186 | Kid Gloves | Lucy Knisley | King County Library System |
| 187 | Kitten Lady’s Big Book of Little Kittens | Amazon | |
| 188 | Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America | Christopher Leonard | NPR |
| 189 | La Frontera: El viaje con papá / My Journey with Papa | Booklist 2 | |
| 190 | Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power | Marginal Revolution | |
| 191 | Last Boat Out Of Shanghai: The Epic Story Of The Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution | Helen Zia | NPR |
| 192 | Leading the Way: Women In Power | Amazon | |
| 193 | Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir Of Recording And Discording With Wilco, Etc. | Jeff Tweedy | NPR |
| 194 | LikeWar | P.W. Singer and Emerson T | TVexamined |
| 195 | Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History | Amazon | |
| 196 | Love Lives Here | Amanda Jetté Knox | CBC |
| 197 | Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop | Thomas Travisano | Iowa Public Radio |
| 198 | Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler | Lynne Olson | NPR |
| 199 | Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, And Our Lives Revealed | Lori Gottlieb | NPR |
| 200 | Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative | Jane Alison | Publishers Weekly |
| 201 | Medieval Bodies | BookPage | |
| 202 | Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living | Elizabeth Willard Thames | Marta’s Muse |
| 203 | Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 | Booklist 2 | |
| 204 | Mistakes to Run With | Yasuko Thanh | CBC |
| 205 | Moneyland: The Inside Story Of The Crooks And Kleptocrats Who Rule The World | Oliver Bullough | NPR |
| 206 | My Body My Choice: The Fight for Abortion Rights | School Library Journal | |
| 207 | Mythologica: An encyclopedia of gods, monsters and mortals from ancient Greece | Amazon | |
| 208 | Natalia Goncharova | Marginal Revolution | |
| 209 | Nature’s Superheroes | Booklist 3 | |
| 210 | Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared To Run Away | School Library Journal | |
| 211 | Never Enough: the neuroscience and experience of addiction | Marginal Revolution | |
| 212 | No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power Of Embracing Emotions At Work | Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy | NPR |
| 213 | No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference | USA Today | |
| 214 | Nobody’s Looking At You: Essays | Janet Malcolm | NPR |
| 215 | Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls | Carrie Goldberg | Esquire |
| 216 | Notes From A Young Black Chef: A Memoir | Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein | NPR |
| 217 | Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. | Jenny Heijun Wills | CBC |
| 218 | On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons | Laura Cumming | Five Books |
| 219 | On the Clock | Emily Guendelsberger | King County Library System |
| 220 | On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey | Amazon 2 | |
| 221 | One Day: The Extraordinary Story Of An Ordinary 24 Hours In America | Gene Weingarten | NPR |
| 222 | One Drum | Richard Wagamese | CBC |
| 223 | One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew us to the Moon | Marginal Revolution | |
| 224 | Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration | Marginal Revolution | |
| 225 | Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities | Marginal Revolution | |
| 226 | Ordinary Hazards | Nikki Grimes | Chicago Public Library |
| 227 | Our Women on the Ground | Arab Women Reporting From the Arab World | King County Library System |
| 228 | Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | Marta’s Muse |
| 229 | Overview, Young Explorer’s Edition: A New Way of Seeing Earth | Amazon | |
| 230 | Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir | Deirdre Bair | Publishers Weekly |
| 231 | Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist | Booklist 2 | |
| 232 | Penny Wong: Passion and Principle | Margaret Simons | Readings |
| 233 | Places And Names: On War, Revolution, And Returning | Elliot Ackerman | NPR |
| 234 | Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré | School Library Journal | |
| 235 | Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required | Kristy Shen | Marta’s Muse |
| 236 | Rage Becomes Her | Soraya Chemaly | TVexamined |
| 237 | Range | David J. Epstein | King County Library System |
| 238 | Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World | David J. Epstein | NPR |
| 239 | Reaching for the Moon: An Autobiography of a NASA Mathematician | Katherine Johnson | Iowa Public Radio |
| 240 | Republic Of Shame: Stories From Ireland’s Institutions For ‘Fallen Women’ | Caelainn Hogan | NPR |
| 241 | Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race | Lara Prior-Palmer | Esquire |
| 242 | Sand Talk | Tyson Yunkaporta | Readings |
| 243 | Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession | Rachel Monroe | Esquire |
| 244 | Save Me the Plums | Ruth Reichl | King County Library System |
| 245 | Screen Tests: Stories and Other Writing | Book Riot | |
| 246 | Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami On America’s Shores | Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey | NPR |
| 247 | Sea People | BookPage | |
| 248 | Searchlight Books: | Booklist 3 | |
| 249 | Seattle Prohibition | Brad Holden | King County Library System |
| 250 | Seattle Walk Report | Seattle Walk Report | King County Library System |
| 251 | See What You Made Me Do | Jess Hill | Readings |
| 252 | Semicolon | Cecelia Watson | King County Library System |
| 253 | Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays | Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton | Esquire |
| 254 | Share Your Smile: Raina’s Guide to Telling Your Own Story | Amazon | |
| 255 | Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 | James Donovan | Publishers Weekly |
| 256 | Shout | Laurie Halse Anderson | Chicago Public Library |
| 257 | Sister Outsider | Audre Lorde | TVexamined |
| 258 | Slime | BookPage | |
| 259 | Slime-inators & Other Slippery Tricksters | Booklist 3 | |
| 260 | Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air | School Library Journal | |
| 261 | Socialist Realism | Book Riot | |
| 262 | Somebody’s Wife | Linda Burgess | newsroom |
| 263 | Someone like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream | Booklist 2 | |
| 264 | Sontag: Her Life and Work | Benjamin Moser | Iowa Public Radio |
| 265 | Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly | Jim DeRogatis | NPR |
| 266 | Southern Nights: The story of New Zealand’s night sky | Naomi Arnold | newsroom |
| 267 | Spotify Teardown: Inside The Black Box Of Streaming Music | Maria Eriksson, Rasmus Fleischer, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars, | NPR |
| 268 | Spying On The South: An Odyssey Across The American Divide | Tony Horwitz | NPR |
| 269 | Stamped From the Beginning | Book Riot | |
| 270 | Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide | Goodreads | |
| 271 | Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse | Shane Burcaw | Chicago Public Library |
| 272 | Supreme Glamour | Mary Wilson with Mark Bego | NPR |
| 273 | Survival Math: Notes On An All-American Family | Mitchell S. Jackson | NPR |
| 274 | Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know | Goodreads | |
| 275 | The (other) F Word | Chicago Public Library | |
| 276 | The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, And The Pillage Of An Empire | William Dalrymple | NPR |
| 277 | The Art of Happy Moving: How to Declutter, Pack, and Start Over While Maintaining Your Sanity and Finding Happiness | Ali Wenzke | SheReads |
| 278 | The Art of Leaving | Ayelet Tsabari | CBC |
| 279 | The Art Of Statistics: How To Learn From Data | David Spiegelhalter | NPR |
| 280 | The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor. | Booklist 2 | |
| 281 | The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, And The Story Of My Father | Janny Scott | NPR |
| 282 | The Body Papers: A Memoir | Grace Talusan | SheReads |
| 283 | The Body: A Guide for Occupants | USA Today | |
| 284 | The Book of Delights: Essays | City of Asylum Bookstore | |
| 285 | The Book of Eating | BookPage | |
| 286 | The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777 | Rick Atkinson | Publishers Weekly |
| 287 | The Broken Road: George Wallace And A Daughter’s Journey To Reconciliation | Peggy Wallace Kennedy | NPR |
| 288 | The Castle On Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, And Scandal At Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont | Shawn Levy | NPR |
| 289 | The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age | Leo Damrosch | Publishers Weekly |
| 290 | The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America | Margaret O’Mara | Publishers Weekly |
| 291 | The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando | William J. Mann | Publishers Weekly |
| 292 | The Crimes of ISIS | Booklist 3 | |
| 293 | The Elephant In The Room: One Fat Man’s Quest To Get Smaller In A Growing America | Tommy Tomlinson | NPR |
| 294 | The Empire And The Five Kings: America’s Abdication And The Fate Of The World | Bernard-Henri Lévy | NPR |
| 295 | The Far Away Brothers | Lauren Markham | Chicago Public Library |
| 296 | The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Hallie Rubenhold | Five Books |
| 297 | The Food of Sichuan | Marginal Revolution | |
| 298 | The Ghosts of Eden Park | BookPage | |
| 299 | The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness | Amazon 2 | |
| 300 | The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un | Marginal Revolution | |
| 301 | The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life | Chris Guillebeau | Marta’s Muse |
| 302 | The Heartland: An American History | Kristin L. Hoganson | NPR |
| 303 | The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary | Marginal Revolution | |
| 304 | The History of Philosophy | A.C. Grayling | Iowa Public Radio |
| 305 | The Invisible Load: A guide to overcoming stress | Dr Libby Weaver | newsroom |
| 306 | The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting | Marginal Revolution | |
| 307 | The LGBT Rights Movement. | Booklist 2 | |
| 308 | The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini | BookPage | |
| 309 | The Man They Wanted Me To Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own making | Book Riot | |
| 310 | The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. | Evan Ratliff | NPR |
| 311 | The Meaning of Trees: The history and use of New Zealand’s native plants | Robert Vennell | newsroom |
| 312 | The National Team: The Inside Story Of The Women Who Changed Soccer | Caitlin Murray | NPR |
| 313 | The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander | TVexamined |
| 314 | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | Booklist | |
| 315 | The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System | Marginal Revolution | |
| 316 | The North-West is Our Mother | Jean Teillet | CBC |
| 317 | The Old Ways | Book Riot | |
| 318 | The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 | Amazon 2 | |
| 319 | The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead In A Reckless Age | Bina Venkataraman | NPR |
| 320 | The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan | Marginal Revolution | |
| 321 | The Plaza: The Secret Life Of America’s Most Famous Hotel | Julie Satow | NPR |
| 322 | The Political Years | Marilyn Waring | newsroom |
| 323 | The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me | Book Riot | |
| 324 | The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students | Anthony Abraham Jack | NPR |
| 325 | The Push for Social Change | Booklist 3 | |
| 326 | The Ride Of A Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years As CEO Of The Walt Disney Company | Robert Iger | NPR |
| 327 | The Salt Path | Raynor Winn | NPR |
| 328 | The Season: A Social History Of The Debutante | Kristen Richardson | NPR |
| 329 | The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys With The Hustlers And Rebels Of The New China | Frank Langfitt | NPR |
| 330 | The Source Of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, And Meditations | Toni Morrison | NPR |
| 331 | The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You | City of Asylum Bookstore | |
| 332 | The Unwinding of the Miracle | Book Riot | |
| 333 | The Wake | Linden MacIntyre | CBC |
| 334 | The Wonders of Nature | Amazon | |
| 335 | They Called Us Enemy | George Takei, Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott, illustrated | NPR |
| 336 | They Will Have To Die Now: Mosul And The Fall Of The Caliphate | James Verini | NPR |
| 337 | Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir | Jeannie Vanasco | Esquire |
| 338 | This One Looks Like a Boy | Lorimer Shenher | CBC |
| 339 | This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story | Jackie Shannon Hollis | SheReads |
| 340 | Thurgood | Jonah Winter, illustrated by Bryan Collier | Iowa Public Radio |
| 341 | To the River | Don Gillmor | CBC |
| 342 | Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality | Booklist | |
| 343 | Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More like America | Booklist | |
| 344 | Trainwreck | Book Riot | |
| 345 | Trans Mission | Alex Bertie | Chicago Public Library |
| 346 | Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington | School Library Journal | |
| 347 | Truth Be Told | Beverley McLachlin | CBC |
| 348 | Underground: A Human History Of The Worlds Beneath Our Feet | Will Hunt | NPR |
| 349 | Unexampled Courage: The Blinding Of Sgt. Isaac Woodard And The Awakening Of President Harry S. Truman And Judge J. Waties Waring | Richard Gergel | NPR |
| 350 | Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely | Lysa TerKeurst | Marta’s Muse |
| 351 | United Tastes of America: An Atlas of Food Facts & Recipes from Every State! | Amazon | |
| 352 | Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice | Booklist 2 | |
| 353 | VIRAL: The Fight Against AIDS in America | School Library Journal | |
| 354 | Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire | Marginal Revolution | |
| 355 | Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories Of Social Upheaval | Saidiya Hartman | NPR |
| 356 | We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World | School Library Journal | |
| 357 | We Have Always Been Here | Samra Habib | CBC |
| 358 | Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, And Other Hacks From The Parenting Trenches | Hillary Frank | NPR |
| 359 | Whale Oil: One man’s fight to save his reputation, then his life | Margie Thomson | newsroom |
| 360 | What Miss Mitchell Saw | Hayley Barrett, illustrated by Diana Sudyka | Iowa Public Radio |
| 361 | What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir Of Witness And Resistance | Carolyn Forché | NPR |
| 362 | When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book | Book Riot | |
| 363 | When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History | Massoud Hayoun | NPR |
| 364 | Whiitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Māori in the First World War | Monty Soutar | newsroom |
| 365 | White Tears, Brown Scars | Ruby Hamad | Readings |
| 366 | Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities | Marginal Revolution | |
| 367 | Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, And Me | Adrienne Brodeur | NPR |
| 368 | Working | Robert Caro | Esquire |
| 369 | You Can’t Touch My Hair/Everything is Trash but It’s Okay | Phoebe Robinson | TVexamined |
| 370 | You Look Like a Thing and I Love You | BookPage | |
| 371 | Yummy Yoga: Playful Poses and Tasty Treats | Amazon |
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