Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024

• The Achilles Trap

  Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
  Steve Coll
• All Things Are Too Small

  Essays in Praise of Excess
  Becca Rothfeld
• America Last

  The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
  Jacob Heilbrunn
• The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  Jonathan Haidt
• Any Person Is the Only Self

  Essays
  Elisa Gabbert
• At the Edge of Empire

  A Family's Reckoning with China
  Edward Wong
• The Barn

  The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
  Wright Thompson
• Black Pill

  How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
  Elle Reeve
• The Black Utopians

  Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
  Aaron Robertson
• Challenger

  A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
  Adam Higginbotham
• Charlie Hustle

  The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
  Keith O’Brien
• Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
  Katherine Bucknell
• Circle of Hope

  A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
  Eliza Griswold
• Connie

  A Memoir
  Connie Chung
• Consent

  A Memoir
  Jill Ciment
• Didion and Babitz
  Lili Anolik
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

  The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
  Jonathan Blitzer
• Fi

  A Memoir of My Son
  Alexandra Fuller
• Fierce Desires

  A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
  Rebecca L. Davis
• Grief Is for People
  Sloane Crosley
• Hell Gate Bridge

  A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope
  Barrie Miskin
• Hiroshima

  The Last Witnesses
  M.G. Sheftall
• LatinoLand

  A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
  Marie Arana
• The Light Eaters

  How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
  Zoë Schlanger
• Living on Earth

  Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
  Peter Godfrey-Smith
• Lucky Loser

  How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
  Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig
• The Mango Tree

  A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
  Annabelle Tometich
• The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
  Zito Madu
• Night Flyer

  Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
  Tiya Miles
• No Road Leading Back

  An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust
  Chris Heath
• Our Kindred Creatures

  How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
  Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy
• Out of the Darkness

  The Germans, 1942-2022
  Frank Trentmann
• Paris in Ruins

  Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
  Sebastian Smee
• Patriot

  A Memoir
  Alexei Navalny
• Q

  A Voyage Around the Queen
  Craig Brown
• Radiant

  The Life and Line of Keith Haring
  Brad Gooch
• Reagan

  His Life and Legend
  Max Boot
• The Rebel's Clinic

  The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
  Adam Shatz
• Riding Like the Wind

  The Life of Sanora Babb
  Iris Jamahl Dunkle
• Selected Amazon Reviews
  Kevin Killian
• The Siege

  A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
  Ben Macintyre
• The Silenced Muse

  Emily Hale, T.S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime
  Sara Fitzgerald
• Stranger Than Fiction

  Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
  Edwin Frank
• The Survivors of the Clotilda

  The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
  Hannah Durkin
• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Traveling

  On the Path of Joni Mitchell
  Ann Powers
• Twenty Years

  Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
  Sune Engel Rasmussen
• An Unfinished Love Story

  A Personal History of the 1960s
  Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Whiskey Tender

  A Memoir
  Deborah Jackson Taffa
• We Loved It All

  A Memory of Life
  Lydia Millet