150th web banner

Our Favorite Nonfiction

 

B
Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

C
Conundrum by Jan Morris
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner

D
Doppelganger: A Trip Into The Mirror World by Naomi Klein
Dreyer's English : An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer

F
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Freedom Dreams by Robin D. G. Kelley
Farmacology by Daphne Miller

H
Hollywood Causes Cancer: The Tom Green Story by Tom Green
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

I
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya

L
Lost in place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia by Mark Salzmann

M
Meet Me at The Biltmore

N
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century by Perry Miller
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen

O
On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor

P
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
The Prince of Providence by Mike Stanton

S
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong

T
Think Like a Horse by Grant Golliher

W
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellose and Alexandre Montagu
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Writer's House in Wales by Jan Morris

Y
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson