Year-End Lists

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2018

• And Now We Have Everything

  On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
  Meaghan O'Connell
• Dead Girls

  Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
  Alice Bolin
• Fear

  Trump in the White House
  Bob Woodward
• Give People Money

  How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
  Annie Lowrey
• Heavy

  An American Memoir
  Kiese Laymon
• Heart Berries
  Terese Marie Mailhot
• How to Change Your Mind

  What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
  Michael Pollan
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

  One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  Michelle McNamara
• Impossible Owls
  Brian Phillips
• I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
  Tim Kreider
• The Line Becomes a River

  Dispatches from the Border
  Francisco Cantú
• On Desperate Ground

  The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle
  Hampton Sides
• Playing Changes

  Jazz for the New Century
  Nate Chinen
• Priestdaddy
  Patricia Lockwood
• Rising Out of Hatred

  The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
  Eli Saslow
• So You Want to Talk About Race
  Ijeoma Oluo
• The Third Reich

  A History of Nazi Germany
  Thomas Childers
• Vanishing Twins

  A Marriage
  Leah Dieterich
• What Is Real?

  The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
  Adam Becker