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Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023
15 November 2023
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50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023
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The 272
The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
Rachel L. Swarns
Affinities
On Art and Fascination
Brian Dillon
Althea
The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson
Sally H. Jacobs
American Gun
The True Story of the AR-15
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
The Art Thief
A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel
The Best Minds
A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen
The Big Break
The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind
Ben Terris
Built from the Fire
The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
Victor Luckerson
Collision of Power
Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post
Martin Baron
Correction
Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
Ben Austen
The Country of the Blind
A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland
The Critic's Daughter
A Memoir
Priscilla Gilman
Democracy Awakening
Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson
The Dictionary People
The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Sarah Ogilvie
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
A Memoir
Lucinda Williams
Fatherland
A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
Burkhard Bilger
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan
Fire Weather
A True Story from a Hotter World
John Vaillant
George
A Magpie Memoir
Frieda Hughes
Gun Country
Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America
Andrew C. McKevitt
An Inconvenient Cop
My Fight to Change Policing in America
Eric Raymond
Leg
The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Greg Marshall
Liliana's Invincible Summer
A Sister's Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza
Lives of the Wives
Five Literary Marriages
Carmela Ciuraru
Lou Reed
The King of New York
Will Hermes
Monsters
A Fan's Dilemma
Claire Dederer
Number Go Up
Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Zeke Faux
Of Time and Turtles
Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Sy Montgomery
Pageboy
Elliot Page
The People's Hospital
Hope and Peril in American Medicine
Ricardo Nuila
The Possibility of Life
Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
Jaime Green
President Garfield
From Radical to Unifier
C.W. Goodyear
The Red Hotel
Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War
Alan Philips
The Rediscovery of America
Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
Saying It Loud
1966―The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
Mark Whitaker
The Secret Gate
A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan
Mitchell Zuckoff
Spare
Prince Harry
Starkweather
The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America
Harry N MacLean
The Story of a Life
Konstantin Paustovsky
To Free the Captives
A Plea for the American Soul
Tracy K. Smith
UFO
The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There
Garrett M. Graff
Under the Eye of Power
How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
Colin Dickey
The Upside-Down World
Meetings with the Dutch Masters
Benjamin Moser
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
We Were Once a Family
A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Roxanna Asgarian
When Crack Was King
A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
Donovan X. Ramsey
Winnie and Nelson
Portrait of a Marriage
Jonny Steinberg
Without Children
The Long History of Not Being a Mother
Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
The Wounded World
W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War
Chad L. Williams
