Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

• Abe

  Abraham Lincoln in His Times
  David S. Reynolds
• Active Measures

  The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
  Thomas Rid
• All I Ever Wanted

  A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
  Kathy Valentine
• The Art of Her Deal

  The Untold Story of Melania Trump
  Mary Jordan
• Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
  Anonymous
• Begin Again

  James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• The Big Goodbye

  Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
  Sam Wasson
• The Biggest Bluff

  How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
  Maria Konnikova
• Breath

  The New Science of a Lost Art
  James Nestor
• The Book of Eels

  Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
  Patrik Svensson
• Dark Mirror

  Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
  Barton Gellman
• The Dead Are Arising

  The Life of Malcolm X
  Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• The Deviant's War

  The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
  Eric Cervini
• Dirt

  Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
  Bill Buford
• Dolly Parton, Songteller

  My Life in Lyrics
  Dolly Parton
• Eat the Buddha

  Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
  Barbara Demick
• A Furious Sky

  The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
  Eric Jay Dolin
• Galileo

  And the Science Deniers
  Mario Livio
• Ghosting the News

  Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
  Margaret Sullivan
• His Truth Is Marching On

  John Lewis and the Power of Hope
  Jon Meacham
• Hood Feminism

  Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
  Mikki Kendall
• How the South Won the Civil War

  Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
  Heather Cox Richardson
• Humankind

  A Hopeful History
  Rutger Bregman
• I You We Them: Volume 1: Walking into the World of the Desk Killer
  Dan Gretton
• Kleptopia

  How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
  Tom Burgis
• The Man Who Ran Washington

  The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
  Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
• Max Jacob

  A Life in Art and Letters
  Rosanna Warren
• Me and White Supremacy

  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
  Layla Saad
• Minor Feelings

  An Asian American Reckoning
  Cathy Park Hong
• One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

  The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
  Jia Lynn Yang
• Pelosi
  Molly Ball
• The People, No

  A Brief History of Anti-Populism
  Thomas Frank
• The Professor and the Parson

  A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
  Adam Sisman
• A Promised Land
  Barack Obama
• Rage
  Bob Woodward
• Rigged

  America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference
  David Shimer
• The Splendid and the Vile

  A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
  Erik Larson
• Stranger in the Shogun's City

  A Japanese Woman and Her World
  Amy Stanley
• Too Much and Never Enough

  How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
  Mary L. Trump
• Twilight of Democracy

  The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
  Anne Applebaum
• Uncanny Valley
  Anna Wiener
• Untamed
  Glennon Doyle
• A Very Stable Genius

  Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
  Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
• We Have Been Harmonized

  Life in China's Surveillance State
  Kai Strittmatter
• What It's Like to Be a Bird

  From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why
  David Allen Sibley
• What Were We Thinking

  A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
  Carlos Lozada
• Why Fish Don't Exist

  A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
  Lulu Miller
• Wow, No Thank You.
  Samantha Irby
• Wuhan Diary

  Dispatches from a Quarantined City
  Fang Fang
• You're Not Listening

  What You're Missing and Why It Matters
  Kate Murphy