Year-End Lists

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2019 Books

Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

27 September 2019

Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

[see also 2010s]

  1. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
    Rachel Louise Snyder
  2. Three Women
    Lisa Taddeo
  3. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
    Jia Tolentino
  4. Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
    Carrie Goldberg
  5. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
    Rachel Monroe
  6. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
    Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
  7. Make It Scream, Make It Burn
    Leslie Jamison
  8. Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
    Jeannie Vanasco
  9. In the Dream House
    Carmen Maria Machado
  10. The Witches Are Coming
    Lindy West
  11. For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
    Liz Plank
  12. Formation: A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line
    Ryan Leigh Dostie
  13. I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
    Emily Nussbaum
  14. Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
    Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton (editors)
  15. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
    Gretchen McCulloch
  16. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
    T Kira Madden
  17. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
    Jennifer L. Eberhardt
  18. Working
    Robert A. Caro
  19. I Miss You When I Blink
    Mary Laura Philpott
  20. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
    Michele Filgate (editor)
  21. Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
    Lara Prior-Palmer

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