Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

• Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
  Jeannie Vanasco
• Ordinary Girls
  Jaquira Díaz
• How to Be an Antiracist
  Ibram X. Kendi
• Go Ahead in the Rain

  Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Know My Name
  Chanel Miller
• What You Have Heard Is True

  A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
  Carolyn Forché
• Furious Hours

  Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
  Casey Cep
• How We Fight for Our Lives
  Saeed Jones
• Good Talk

  A Memoir in Conversations
  Mira Jacob
• Rough Magic

  Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
  Lara Prior-Palmer
• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
  T Kira Madden
• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom
• The Collected Schizophrenias
  Esmé Weijun Wang
• Trick Mirror

  Reflections on Self-Delusion
  Jia Tolentino
• In the Dream House
  Carmen Maria Machado