Year-End Lists

BookPage: The Best Nonfiction of 2024

• A Fatal Inheritance

  How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
  Lawrence Ingrassia
• Carson McCullers

  A Life
  Mary V. Dearborn
• Challenger

  A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
  Adam Higginbotham
• Free the Land

  How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos
  Audrea Lim
• Grief Is for People
  Sloane Crosley
• Madness

  Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
  Antonia Hylton
• Meet the Neighbors

  Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
  Brandon Keim
• Slow Noodles

  A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
  Chantha Nguon
• Survival Is a Promise

  The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
  Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• The Age of Magical Overthinking

  Notes on Modern Irrationality
  Amanda Montell
• The Barn

  The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
  Wright Thompson
• The Other Olympians

  Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
  Michael Waters
• The Slow Road North

  How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
  Rosie Schaap
• The Unclaimed

  Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
  Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans
• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib