Year-End Lists

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2023

• A Living Remedy
  Nicole Chung
• Raw Dog

  The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
  Jamie Loftus
• Pageboy
  Elliot Page
• Small Fires

  An Epic in the Kitchen
  Rebecca May Johnson
• Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
  Jane Wong
• How to Protect Bookstores and Why

  The Present and Future of Bookselling
  Danny Caine
• The Loneliness Files

  A Memoir in Essays
  Athena Dixon
• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein
• Shitty Craft Club

  A Club for Gluing Beads to Trash, Talking about Our Feelings, and Making Silly Things
  Sam Reece
• Leg

  The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
  Greg Marshall
• Practicing New Worlds

  Abolition and Emergent Strategies
  Andrea Ritchie
• Extremely Online

  The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
  Taylor Lorenz
• To Free the Captives

  A Plea for the American Soul
  Tracy K. Smith
• Poverty, by America
  Matthew Desmond
• Quietly Hostile

  Essays
  Samantha Irby
• Our Migrant Souls

  A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
  Héctor Tobar
• Monsters

  A Fan's Dilemma
  Claire Dederer
• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  Ned Blackhawk
• The Upstairs Delicatessen

  On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
  Dwight Garner
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Wolfish

  Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
  Erica Berry
• Sink
  Joseph Earl Thomas
• Palo Alto

  A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
  Malcolm Harris