Year-End Lists

BookPage: The Best Nonfiction of 2025

• A Flower Traveled in My Blood

  The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
  Haley Cohen Gilliland
• A Truce That Is Not Peace
  Miriam Toews
• Baldwin

  A Love Story
  Nicholas Boggs
• Black in Blues

  How a Color Tells the Story of My People
  Imani Perry
• Bread of Angels

  A Memoir
  Patti Smith
• Dark Renaissance

  The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
  Stephen Greenblatt
• Everything Is Tuberculosis

  The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
  John Green
• Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time

  How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power
  Jennifer Wright
• Mother Mary Comes to Me
  Arundhati Roy
• Motherland

  A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  Julia Ioffe
• Paper Girl

  A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
  Beth Macy
• Positive Obsession

  The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
  Susana M. Morris
• Raising Hare

  A Memoir
  Chloe Dalton
• The Dry Season

  A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
  Melissa Febos
• The Gales of November

  The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
  John U. Bacon
• The Hollow Half

  A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
  Sarah Aziza
• The Perfect Tuba

  Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work
  Sam Quinones
• There Is No Place for Us

  Working and Homeless in America
  Brian Goldstone
• Tigers Between Empires

  The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
  Jonathan C. Slaght
• We the People

  A History of the U.S. Constitution
  Jill Lepore