Year-End Lists

BookPage: Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction

1. Notes on a Silencing
   Lacy Crawford
2. Caste

   The Origins of Our Discontents
   Isabel Wilkerson
3. Fathoms

   The World in the Whale
   Rebecca Giggs
4. Memorial Drive

   A Daughter's Memoir
   Natasha Trethewey
5. The Dead Are Arising

   The Life of Malcolm X
   Les Payne and Tamara Payne
6. Hidden Valley Road

   Inside the Mind of an American Family
   Robert Kolker
7. Is Rape a Crime?

   A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
   Michelle Bowdler
8. Conditional Citizens

   On Belonging in America
   Laila Lalami
9. Children of the Land
   Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
10. World of Wonders

    In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
    Aimee Nezhukumatathil
11. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

    A true (as told to me) story
    Bess Kalb
12. Vesper Flights
    Helen Macdonald
13. To Start a War

    How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
    Robert Draper
14. Inferno

    A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
    Catherine Cho
15. Wow, No Thank You.
    Samantha Irby
16. Just Us

    An American Conversation
    Claudia Rankine
17. Once I Was You

    A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
    Maria Hinojosa
18. Wilmington's Lie

    The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
    David Zucchino
19. Minor Feelings

    An Asian American Reckoning
    Cathy Park Hong
20. The Splendid and the Vile

    A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
    Erik Larson