Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022

• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• American Midnight

  The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
  Adam Hochschild
• Ancestor Trouble

  A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
  Maud Newton
• As It Turns Out

  Thinking About Edie and Andy
  Alice Sedgwick Wohl
• Because Our Fathers Lied

  A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
  Craig McNamara
• Cheap Land Colorado

  Off-Gridders at America's Edge
  Ted Conover
• Come Back in September

  A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
  Darryl Pinckney
• Confidence Man

  The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
  Maggie Haberman
• Desperate Remedies

  Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
  Andrew Scull
• Diary of a Misfit

  A Memoir and a Mystery
  Casey Parks
• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Eliot After "The Waste Land"
  Robert Crawford
• Esmond and Ilia

  An Unreliable Memoir
  Marina Warner
• Finding Me
  Viola Davis
• Free

  A Child and a Country at the End of History
  Lea Ypi
• Getting Lost
  Annie Ernaux
• The Great Stewardess Rebellion

  How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
  Nell McShane Wulfhart
• His Name Is George Floyd

  One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
• Imagining the End

  Mourning and Ethical Life
  Jonathan Lear
• The Impossible City

  A Hong Kong Memoir
  Karen Cheung
• Index, A History of the

  A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
  Dennis Duncan
• The Inheritors

  An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
  Eve Fairbanks
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• Lady Justice

  Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
  Dahlia Lithwick
• Lessons from the Edge

  A Memoir
  Marie Yovanovitch
• A Life Of Picasso: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943
  John Richardson
• Lost & Found

  A Memoir
  Kathryn Schulz
• Magnificent Rebels

  The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
  Andrea Wulf
• Newsroom Confidential

  Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life
  Margaret Sullivan
• The Palace Papers

  Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
  Tina Brown
• Path Lit by Lightning

  The Life of Jim Thorpe
  David Maraniss
• README.txt
  Chelsea Manning
• Reality+

  Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
  David J. Chalmers
• Rickey

  The Life and Legend of an American Original
  Howard Bryant
• River of the Gods

  Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
  Candice Millard
• Sandy Hook

  An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
  Elizabeth Williamson
• Shy

  The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
  Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Tasha

  A Son's Memoir
  Brian Morton
• This Body I Wore

  A Memoir
  Diana Goetsch
• Truly, Madly

  Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century
  Stephen Galloway
• Under the Skin

  The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
  Linda Villarosa
• The War of Nerves

  Inside the Cold War Mind
  Martin Sixsmith
• Watergate

  A New History
  Garrett M. Graff
• Ways and Means

  Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
  Roger Lowenstein
• We Don't Know Ourselves

  A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  Fintan O'Toole
• When McKinsey Comes to Town

  The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
  Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe
• You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  Zora Neale Hurston