Year-End Lists

BookPage: The Best Nonfiction of 2023

• A Fever in the Heartland

  The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
  Timothy Egan
• A Man of Two Faces

  a Memoir, a History, a Memorial
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Gator Country

  Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
  Rebecca Renner
• Goodbye, Eastern Europe

  An Intimate History of a Divided Land
  Jacob Mikanowski
• I Saw Death Coming

  A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
  Kidada E. Williams
• King

  A Life
  Jonathan Eig
• Our Migrant Souls

  A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
  Héctor Tobar
• Owner of a Lonely Heart
  Beth Nguyen
• Rough Sleepers
  Tracy Kidder
• Still Life with Bones

  Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
  Alexa Hagerty
• The Kneeling Man

  My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
  Leta McCollough Seletzky
• The Quickening

  Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
  Elizabeth Rush
• The Underworld

  Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
  Susan Casey
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

  A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
  Tahir Hamut Izgil