Year-End Lists

Powell's Books: The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

• How to Resist Amazon and Why
  Danny Caine
• Crying in H Mart
  Michelle Zauner
• Poet Warrior
  Joy Harjo
• Work Won't Love You Back

  How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
  Sarah Jaffe
• On Time and Water
  Andri Snær Magnason
• The Sum of Us

  What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
  Heather McGhee
• Hip-Hop (And Other Things)
  Shea Serrano
• Empire of Pain

  The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• Icebound

  Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
  Andrea Pitzer
• Islands of Abandonment

  Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
  Cal Flyn
• The Secret to Superhuman Strength
  Alison Bechdel
• A Little Devil in America

  Notes in Praise of Black Performance
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• No Planet B

  The Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis
  Lucy Diavolo (editor)
• The 1619 Project

  A New Origin Story
  Nikole Hannah-Jones (creator)