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Annabel Gutterman: Time: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

08 December 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021, as published by Time Magazine

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  1. A Little Devil in America
    Notes in Praise of Black Performance
    Hanif Abdurraqib
  2. Crying in H Mart
    Michelle Zauner
  3. Invisible Child
    Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
    Andrea Elliott
  4. How the Word Is Passed
    A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
    Clint Smith
  5. Aftershocks
    Nadia Owusu
  6. Empire of Pain
    The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    Patrick Radden Keefe
  7. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
    In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
    George Saunders
  8. The Copenhagen Trilogy
    Childhood; Youth; Dependency
    Tove Ditlevsen
  9. Finding the Mother Tree
    Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
    Suzanne Simard
  10. The Kissing Bug
    A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
    Daisy Hernández

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