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The Best Books of 2024 – Nonfiction (A Year-End List Aggregation)

“What are the best Nonfiction books released in 2024?” We looked at 478 of the top Nonfiction books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 48 books, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Nonfiction” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 430 titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

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Previous Years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

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Top 48 Best Nonfiction Books From 2024



48.) A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery written by Lawrence Ingrassia

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • BookPage
  • NPR


47.) A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging written by Lauren Markham

A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham

Lists It Appears On:

  • Electric Lit
  • NPR
  • The New Yorker


46.) All Things Are Too Small Essays in Praise of Excess written by Becca Rothfeld

All Things Are Too Small Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


45.) Connie A Memoir written by Connie Chung

Connie A Memoir by Connie Chung

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • STLPR
  • Washington Post


44.) Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show written by Tommy Tomlinson

Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show by Tommy Tomlinson

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Star Tribune
  • The New Yorker


43.) I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition written by Lucy Sante

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante

Lists It Appears On:

  • Electric Lit
  • New York Times
  • The New Yorker


42.) In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife written by Sebastian Junger

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

Lists It Appears On:

  • Listener
  • NPR
  • Publishers Weekly


41.) John Lewis: A Life written by David Greenberg

John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • The New Yorker
  • The New Yorker


40.) Living on Earth written by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Living on Earth by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Lists It Appears On:

  • Listener
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


39.) Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum written by Antonia Hylton

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

Lists It Appears On:

  • BookPage
  • New York Times
  • The New Yorker


38.) Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI written by Yuval Noah Harari

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Indigo


37.) On Freedom written by Timothy Snyder

On Freedom by Timothy Snyder

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • The Globe


36.) Reagan His Life and Legend written by Max Boot

Reagan His Life and Legend by Max Boot

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


35.) Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel written by Edwin Frank

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel by Edwin Frank

Lists It Appears On:

  • STLPR
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


34.) The Achilles Trap Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq written by Steve Coll

The Achilles Trap Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


33.) The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality written by Amanda Montell

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • BookPage
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz


32.) The Backyard Bird Chronicles written by Amy Tan

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Goodreads
  • NPR


31.) The Black Utopians Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America written by Aaron Robertson

The Black Utopians Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • NYPL
  • Washington Post


30.) The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir written by Griffin Dunne

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

Lists It Appears On:

  • NPR
  • The New Yorker
  • TIME


29.) The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports written by Michael Waters

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters

Lists It Appears On:

  • BookPage
  • NPR
  • The New Yorker


28.) The Rebel’s Clinic The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon written by Adam Shatz

The Rebel's Clinic The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


27.) Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell written by Ann Powers

Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers

Lists It Appears On:

  • NPR
  • The Globe
  • Washington Post


26.) Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures written by Katherine Rundell

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures by Katherine Rundell

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Star Tribune


25.) We’re Alone: Essays written by Edwidge Danticat

We’re Alone: Essays by Edwidge Danticat

Lists It Appears On:

  • Electric Lit
  • NPR
  • Publishers Weekly


24.) Who’s Afraid of Gender? written by Judith Butler

Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Electric Lit
  • NPR


23.) Fi A Memoir of My Son written by Alexandra Fuller

Fi A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • The Globe
  • TIME
  • Washington Post


22.) Nuclear War: A Scenario written by Annie Jacobsen

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • Goodreads
  • NPR
  • NYPL


21.) Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories written by Amitav Ghosh

Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh

Lists It Appears On:

  • Listener
  • NPR
  • Publishers Weekly
  • The New Yorker


20.) Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling written by Jason De León

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • New York Times
  • NPR
  • TIME


19.) Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story written by Leslie Jamison

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Electric Lit
  • New York Times
  • The New Yorker


18.) Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection written by Charles Duhigg

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Goodreads
  • Indigo
  • NPR


17.) Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde written by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Lists It Appears On:

  • BookPage
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Electric Lit
  • NYPL


16.) Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church written by Eliza Griswold

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • NPR
  • Star Tribune
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


15.) Consent: A Memoir written by Jill Ciment

Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Electric Lit
  • NPR
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


14.) Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV written by Emily Nussbaum

Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

Lists It Appears On:

  • New York Times
  • NPR
  • STLPR
  • The Globe
  • The New Yorker


13.) Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis written by Jonathan Blitzer

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • New York Times
  • NYPL
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


12.) Patriot written by Alexei Navalny

Patriot by Alexei Navalny

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • NPR
  • The Globe
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


11.) The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi written by Wright Thompson

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson

Lists It Appears On:

  • BookPage
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • The New Yorker
  • TIME
  • Washington Post


10.) Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space written by Adam Higginbotham

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

Lists It Appears On:

  • BookPage
  • New York Times
  • NYPL
  • Star Tribune
  • The New Yorker
  • Washington Post


9.) Grief Is for People written by Sloane Crosley

Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

Lists It Appears On:

  • BookPage
  • Listener
  • NPR
  • Publishers Weekly
  • TIME
  • Washington Post


8.) The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness written by Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • Goodreads
  • Independent
  • Indigo
  • New York Times
  • Washington Post


7.) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise written by Olivia Laing

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Independent
  • Listener
  • Readings
  • The Globe
  • The New Yorker


6.) The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook written by Hampton Sides

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Listener
  • New York Times
  • NPR
  • The Globe
  • The New Yorker


5.) Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder written by Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Listener
  • New York Times
  • NPR
  • The Globe
  • The New Yorker
  • TIME


4.) The Message written by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Electric Lit
  • Goodreads
  • New York Times
  • NPR
  • Readings


3.) Whiskey Tender written by Deborah Jackson Taffa

Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa

Lists It Appears On:

  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Electric Lit
  • NPR
  • Publishers Weekly
  • The New Yorker
  • TIME
  • Washington Post


2.) The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth written by Zoë Schlanger

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amazon
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Listener
  • NYPL
  • Publishers Weekly
  • The Globe
  • The New Yorker
  • TIME
  • Washington Post


1.) There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension written by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Lists It Appears On:

  • BookPage
  • BookRiot
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz
  • Electric Lit
  • New York Times
  • NPR
  • NYPL
  • Publishers Weekly
  • TIME
  • Washington Post



The 430 Additional Best Nonfiction Books Released In 2024



49) A Travel Guide To The Middle Ages – Anthony Bale List: (Listener, The New Yorker)

50) A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon – Kevin Fedarko List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, New York Times)

51) A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson – Camille Peri List: (New York Times, NPR)

52) Alphabetical Diaries – Sheila Heti List: (Electric Lit, The New Yorker)

53) Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances – Lucas Mann List: (NPR, The New Yorker)

54) Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir – Ina Garten List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

55) Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holliday’s Last Year – Paul Alexander List: (Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker)

56) Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis – Ryann Liebenthal List: (Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker)

57) By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land – Rebecca Nagle List: (NPR, The New Yorker)

58) Carson McCullers – Mary V. Dearborn List: (BookPage, The New Yorker)

59) Charlie Hustle The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball – Keith O’Brien List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

60) Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food – Michelle T. King List: (New York Times, NPR)

61) Christopher Isherwood Inside Out – Katherine Bucknell List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

62) Cocktails with George and Martha Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Philip Gefter List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

63) Didion and Babitz – Lili Anolik List: (Electric Lit, Washington Post)

64) Do Something Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York – Guy Trebay List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

65) Every Living Thing: The Great And Deadly Race To Know All Life – Jason Roberts List: (Listener, The Globe)

66) Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir – Tessa Hulls List: (NPR, Star Tribune)

67) Fierce Desires A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America – Rebecca L. Davis List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

68) Filterworld – Kyle Chayka List: (Independent, The New Yorker)

69) First Love: Essays on Friendship – Lilly Dancyger List: (Electric Lit, NPR)

70) Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions – John Grisham List: (Goodreads, Indigo)

71) Frighten the Horses – Oliver Radclyffe List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, Electric Lit)

72) Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves – Nicola Twilley List: (Amazon, The New Yorker)

73) Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See – Bianca Bosker List: (NPR, Publishers Weekly)

74) Health and Safety A Breakdown – Emily Witt List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

75) Here After – Amy Lin List: (NPR, The Globe)

76) Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich – Richard J. Evans List: (Listener, The New Yorker)

77) Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life – Richard Beck List: (Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker)

78) Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue – Sonia Purnell List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, The New Yorker)

79) Language City The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York – Ross Perlin List: (Listener, New York Times)

80) LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority – Marie Arana List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

81) Lovely One – Ketanji Brown Jackson List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

82) Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders – Vanessa Angélica Villarreal List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, NPR)

83) Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius – Carrie Courogen List: (NPR, Publishers Weekly)

84) Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People – Tiya Miles List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

85) No One Gets to Fall Apart A Memoir – Sarah LaBrie List: (New York Times, NPR)

86) Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet – Hannah Ritchie List: (Listener, NPR)

87) Other Rivers: A Chinese Education – Peter Hessler List: (Listener, The New Yorker)

88) Our Moon: A Human History – Rebecca Boyle List: (Listener, The New Yorker)

89) Out of the Darkness – Frank Trentmann List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

90) Paris In Ruins: Love, War, And The Birth Of Impressionism – Sebastian Smee List: (Listener, Washington Post)

91) Private Revolutions Four Women Face China’s New Social Order – Yuan Yang List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

92) Q A Voyage Around the Queen – Craig Brown List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

93) Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk – Kathleen Hanna List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, NPR)

94) Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering – Malcolm Gladwell List: (Amazon, Goodreads)

95) Rogers v. Rogers: The Battle for Control of Canada’s Telecom Empire – Alexandra Posadzki List: (Indigo, The Globe)

96) Selected Amazon Reviews – Kevin Killian List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

97) Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto – Kohei Saito List: (Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker)

98) Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout – Cal Newport List: (Independent, NPR)

99) Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right – Arlie Russell Hochschild List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

100) Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind – Annalee Newitz List: (BookRiot, Bookshop Santa Cruz)

101) The Bluestockings A History of the First Women’s Movement – Susannah Gibson List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

102) The Burning Earth – Sunil Amrith List: (NPR, The New Yorker)

103) The Haunted Wood: A History Of Childhood Reading – Sam Leith List: (Independent, Listener)

104) The Hidden Globe How Wealth Hacks the World – Atossa Araxia Abrahamian List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

105) The Impossible Man – Patchen Barss List: (The Globe, The New Yorker)

106) The Knowing: The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools – Tanya Talaga List: (Indigo, The Globe)

107) The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry – Stacey D’Erasmo List: (Electric Lit, The New Yorker)

108) The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony – Annabelle Tometich List: (NPR, Washington Post)

109) The New India The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy – Rahul Bhatia List: (New York Times, NPR)

110) The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper – Roland Allen List: (The Globe, The New Yorker)

111) The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War – James Shapiro List: (Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker)

112) The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World – Robin Wall Kimmerer List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, Indigo)

113) The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky – Simon Shuster List: (NPR, The Globe)

114) The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World – Ben Macintyre List: (Star Tribune, Washington Post)

115) The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade – Hannah Durkin List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

116) The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History – Karen Valby List: (New York Times, NPR)

117) The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels – Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans List: (BookPage, NPR)

118) The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing – Adam Moss List: (NPR, The New Yorker)

119) Twenty Years Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation – Sune Engel Rasmussen List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

120) Undivided The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church – Hahrie Han List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

121) Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia – Kate Manne List: (NPR, The New Yorker)

122) War – Bob Woodward List: (Amazon, NPR)

123) Woman of Interest – Tracy O’Neill List: (Electric Lit, The New Yorker)

124) 2020 – Eric Klinenberg List: (The New Yorker, Star Tribune)

125) 3 Shades of Blue – James Kaplan List: (Star Tribune)

126) A Body Made of Glass – Caroline Crampton List: (The New Yorker)

127) A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton – Deb Miller Landau List: (STLPR)

128) A History Of The World In Twelve Shipwrecks – David Gibbins List: (Listener)

129) A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit – Noliwe Rooks List: (The New Yorker)

130) A Termination – Honor Moore List: (Publishers Weekly)

131) A Very Private School: A Memoir – Charles Spencer List: (NPR)

132) A Voyage Around the Queen – Craig Brown List: (Listener)

133) Abortion in the Age of Unreason – Warren M. Hern List: (The New Yorker)

134) Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico – Noé Álvarez List: (NPR)

135) Adrift on a Painted Sea – Tim Bird, paintings by Sue Bird List: (NPR)

136) Alexander von Humboldt – Andreas W. Daum List: (The New Yorker)

137) All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – Elizabeth Comen List: (Goodreads)

138) All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey – Teresa Wong List: (NPR)

139) All That Glitters A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art – Orlando Whitfield List: (The New Yorker)

140) All the Campus Lawyers – Louis H. Guard Joyce P. Jacobsen List: (The New Yorker)

141) All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians – Phil Elwood List: (New York Times)

142) America Last The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators – Jacob Heilbrunn List: (Washington Post)

143) American Zion – Benjamin E. Park List: (The New Yorker)

144) An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children – Jamaica Kincaid List: (The New Yorker)

145) An Honest Woman – Charlotte Shane List: (The New Yorker)

146) An Open-Ended Run – Layne Coleman List: (The Globe)

147) An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s – Doris Kearns Goodwin List: (Washington Post)

148) Any Person Is the Only Self Essays – Elisa Gabbert List: (Washington Post)

149) Ashoka – Patrick Olivelle List: (The New Yorker)

150) At the Edge of Empire A Family’s Reckoning with China – Edward Wong List: (Washington Post)

151) Australian Gospel: A Family Saga – Lech Blaine List: (Readings)

152) Backyard Bird Chronicles – Amy Tan List: (STLPR)

153) Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up – Abigail Shrier List: (NPR)

154) Barrio Rising: The Protest That Built Chicano Park – María Dolores Águila, illustrated by Magdalena Mora List: (NPR)

155) Beautiful Shells: George Perry’s Conchology – Mark Carnall List: (STLPR)

156) Because I’m Not Myself, You See – Ariane Beeston List: (Readings)

157) Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home – Chris La Tray List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

158) Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language – Joonas Sildre, edited by Aile Tooming, translated by Adam Cullen List: (NPR)

159) Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones – Priyanka Mattoo List: (The New Yorker)

160) Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging – Eugene Rodriguez List: (NPR)

161) Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia – Santilla Chingaipe List: (Readings)

162) Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics – Elle Reeve List: (Washington Post)

163) Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health – Marty Makary M.D. List: (Amazon)

164) Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation – Jen Gunter List: (Goodreads)

165) Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class – Sarah Smarsh List: (Electric Lit)

166) Borderlines: A History Of Europe, Told From The Edges – Lewis Baston List: (Listener)

167) Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice – Barbara Bradley Hagerty List: (Amazon)

168) Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – Kara Swisher List: (NPR)

169) Byron: A Life in Ten Letters – Andrew Stauffer List: (The New Yorker)

170) Call Me Roberto! Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos – Nathalie Alonso, illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez List: (NPR)

171) Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution – Jane Kamensky List: (The New Yorker)

172) Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable – Sarah Gerard List: (NPR)

173) Catland – Kathryn Hughes List: (The New Yorker)

174) Charm – Julia Sonnevend List: (The New Yorker)

175) Cloistered: My Years as a Nun – Catherine Coldstream List: (NPR)

176) Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI – Madhumita Murgia List: (Publishers Weekly)

177) Cold Crematorium Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz – József Debreczeni List: (New York Times)

178) Combee – Edda L. Fields-Black List: (The New Yorker)

179) Coming Home – Britney Griner with Michelle Burford List: (STLPR)

180) Committed – Suzanne Scanlon List: (The New Yorker)

181) Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry – Ryan Ruby List: (Publishers Weekly)

182) Cosmic Connections – Charles Taylor List: (The New Yorker)

183) Crosses in the Sky – Mark Bourrie List: (The Globe)

184) Crunch by Natalie Whittle – List: (Independent)

185) Cull of the Wild – Hugh Warwick List: (The New Yorker)

186) Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm – Emmeline Clein List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

187) Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison – and How We Stayed Connected – Jay Jay Patton and Antoine Patton, with Kiara Valdez, illustrated by Markia Jenai List: (NPR)

188) Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America – Paola Ramos List: (NPR)

189) Devil’s Contract – Ed Simon List: (The New Yorker)

190) Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – Sable Yong List: (NPR)

191) Disillusioned – Benjamin Herold List: (The New Yorker)

192) Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire – Ashley Spencer List: (Goodreads)

193) Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging – Jessica J. Lee List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

194) Disrupted City – Manan Ahmed Asif List: (The New Yorker)

195) Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination – Sadie Dingfelder List: (NPR)

196) Double Exposure – Robert Sullivan List: (The New Yorker)

197) Edith Collier: Early Nz Modernist – Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson List: (Listener)

198) Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives – Alice Loxton List: (Listener)

199) Eliot After The Waste Land – Robert Crawford List: (Listener)

200) Erotic Vagrancy – Roger Lewis List: (The New Yorker)

201) Errand into the Maze – Deborah Jowitt List: (The New Yorker)

202) Everest, Inc: The Renegades And Rogues Who Built An Industry At The Top Of The World – Will Cockrell List: (Listener)

203) Every Valley The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah – Charles King List: (New York Times)

204) Everything and Nothing At All – Jenny Heijun Wills List: (The Globe)

205) Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End Of The World – Dorian Lynskey List: (Listener)

206) Family Romance – Jean Strouse List: (The New Yorker)

207) Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You – Ali Abdaal List: (Goodreads)

208) Fifteen Cents on the Dollar – Louise Story and Ebony Reed List: (The New Yorker)

209) Free and Equal – Daniel Chandler List: (The New Yorker)

210) Free the Land How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos – Audrea Lim List: (BookPage)

211) Frontline Surgeon – Mark Derby List: (Listener)

212) Gaslight – Jonathan Mingle List: (NYPL)

213) Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me – Glory Edim List: (NPR)

214) Getting to Know Death: A Meditation – Gail Godwin List: (NPR)

215) Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land – Russell Cobb List: (Publishers Weekly)

216) Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture – Eric Nakamura List: (The New Yorker)

217) Golden Years – James Chappel List: (The New Yorker)

218) Good Reasonable People – Keith Payne List: (The New Yorker)

219) Goodbye Russia – Fiona Maddocks List: (The New Yorker)

220) Grid: The Life And Times Of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell – Adam Claasen List: (Listener)

221) Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy – Sharon Malone M.D. List: (NPR)

222) Growth – Daniel Susskind List: (The New Yorker)

223) H Is for Hope – Elizabeth Kolbert List: (The New Yorker)

224) Hard By The Cloud House – Peter Walker List: (Listener)

225) Hell Gate Bridge A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope – Barrie Miskin List: (Washington Post)

226) Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King – Dan Jones List: (Listener)

227) Hine Toa: A Story Of Bravery – Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku List: (Listener)

228) Hip-hop Is History – Questlove, with Ben Greenman List: (Star Tribune)

229) Hiroshima The Last Witnesses – M.G. Sheftall List: (Washington Post)

230) Hockey Rants and Raves – Steven Glynn List: (Indigo)

231) Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net – Jessica Calarco List: (NPR)

232) Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike by Barbara Kingsolver – List: (Independent)

233) Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness – Jamil Zaki List: (Amazon)

234) Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch – Emily C. Hughes List: (NPR)

235) How the New World Became Old – Caroline Winterer List: (The New Yorker)

236) How The World Made The West: A 4000-Year History – Josephine Quinn List: (Listener)

237) How to Baby – Liana Finck List: (The New Yorker)

238) How to Build a Fashion Icon – Law Roach List: (The New Yorker)

239) How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir – Shayla Lawson List: (NPR)

240) How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom – Johanna Hedva List: (Goodreads)

241) How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler – Peter Pomerantsev List: (NPR)

242) I Cannot Control Everything Forever – Emily C. Bloom List: (The New Yorker)

243) I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine – Daniel J. Levitin List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

244) I Just Keep Talking A Life in Essays – Nell Irvin Painter List: (New York Times)

245) I Will Do Better – Charles Bock List: (The New Yorker)

246) I’m Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America – Rebecca Little, Colleen Long List: (Goodreads)

247) Ian Fleming – Nicholas Shakespeare List: (The New Yorker)

248) If Love Could Kill – Anna Motz List: (The New Yorker)

249) If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade And The Missing Revolution – Vincent Bevins List: (Listener)

250) If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury – Geraldine DeRuiter List: (NPR)

251) In Exile – Sadiya Ansari List: (The Globe)

252) Ingrained – Callum Robinson List: (The New Yorker)

253) Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos – Kelsey Johnson List: (Publishers Weekly)

254) Invisible Prisons – Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen List: (The Globe)

255) Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality – Renée DiResta List: (NPR)

256) It’s Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health – Karen Tang List: (Goodreads)

257) Keeping the Faith God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation – Brenda Wineapple List: (The New Yorker)

258) Kent State – Brian VanDeMark List: (The New Yorker)

259) Kubrick: An Odyssey – Robert P Kolker & Nathan Abrams List: (Listener)

260) L’ Histoire nous le dira 2: La Conquête, les bungalows et autres marqueurs de l’identité québécoise – Laurent Turcot List: (Indigo)

261) LA PAIX: Le parcours d’un guerrier – Roméo Dallaire List: (Indigo)

262) La vie secrète des arbres – BD – Peter Wohlleben List: (Indigo)

263) Land Between The Rivers: A 5000-Year History Of Iraq – Bartle Bull List: (Listener)

264) Les cobayes oubliés: L’histoire du programme MK-ULTRA à Montréal – SOPHIE-ANDRÉE BLONDIN List: (Indigo)

265) Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse” – Emily Raboteau List: (Electric Lit)

266) Letters – Oliver Sacks List: (The New Yorker)

267) Liberalism as a Way of Life – Alexandre Lefebvre List: (The New Yorker)

268) Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House – Jared Cohen List: (NPR)

269) Life and Death of the American Worker – Alice Driver List: (The New Yorker)

270) Life as No One Knows It – Sara Imari Walker List: (The New Yorker)

271) Limitarianism – Ingrid Robeyns List: (The New Yorker)

272) Linguaphile – Julie Sedivy List: (The New Yorker)

273) Little Seed – Wei Tchou List: (The New Yorker)

274) Love, Death & Other Scenes – Nova Weetman List: (Readings)

275) Loving Sylvia Plath – Emily Van Duyne List: (The New Yorker)

276) Lucky Loser How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success – Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig List: (Washington Post)

277) Madrid: A New Biography – Luke Stegemann List: (Listener)

278) Matrescence – Lucy Jones List: (The New Yorker)

279) Mean Boys: A Personal History – Geoffrey Mak List: (NPR)

280) Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey toward Personal and Ecological Healing – Jennifer Grenz List: (Indigo)

281) Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts – Oliver Burkeman List: (Goodreads)

282) Meet the Neighbors Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World – Brandon Keim List: (BookPage)

283) Melancholy Wedgwood – Iris Moon List: (The New Yorker)

284) Melting Point: Family, Memory And The Search For A Promised Land – Rachel Cockerell List: (Listener)

285) Memories of Distant Mountains – Orhan Pamuk; translated by Ekin Oklap List: (Electric Lit)

286) Metamorphoses: In Search Of Franz Kafka – Karolina Watroba List: (Listener)

287) Milk Without Honey – Hanna Harms, translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp List: (NPR)

288) Monet – Jackie Wullschläger List: (The New Yorker)

289) Montreal Standard Time – Mavis Gallant List: (The Globe)

290) My Antarctica: True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More – G. Neri, illlustrated by Corban Wilkin List: (NPR)

291) My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future – Alice Randall List: (NPR)

292) My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir – Sarah Moss List: (NYPL)

293) Naples 1925 – Martin Mittelmeier List: (The New Yorker)

294) Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA – Patrick Winn List: (Amazon)

295) Natural Magic – Renée Bergland List: (The New Yorker)

296) Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom by Vanessa Kisuule – Vanessa Kisuule List: (Independent)

297) New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West – David E. Sanger List: (NPR)

298) No Judgment – Lauren Oyler List: (The New Yorker)

299) No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape From the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust – Chris Heath List: (Washington Post)

300) Nostalgia – Agnes Arnold-Forster List: (Independent)

301) On Call – Anthony Fauci M.D. List: (The New Yorker)

302) On Giving Up – Adam Phillips List: (The New Yorker)

303) On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything – Nate Silver List: (The New Yorker)

304) One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In – Kate Kennedy List: (Goodreads)

305) Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church – Gareth Gore List: (Publishers Weekly)

306) Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century – Laura Beers List: (The New Yorker)

307) Our Crumbling Foundation – Gregor Craigie List: (The Globe)

308) Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity – Michele Norris List: (Amazon)

309) Our Kindred Creatures How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals – Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy List: (Washington Post)

310) Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance – Victoria Blanco List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

311) Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown – Andreas Malm and Wim Carton List: (Publishers Weekly)

312) Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough – Ian Frazier List: (The New Yorker)

313) Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy – Sacha Mardou List: (NPR)

314) Pax Economica – Marc-William Palen List: (The New Yorker)

315) Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays – Daniel Saldaña París, trans. from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman List: (Publishers Weekly)

316) Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment – Jason Schreier List: (NPR)

317) Playing Possum – Susana Monsó List: (The New Yorker)

318) Playing with Reality How Games Have Shaped Our World – Kelly Clancy List: (The New Yorker)

319) POURQUOI LES KEVIN NE DEVIENNENT PAS MÉDECINS: Et autres phénomènes de société expliqués – ÉTIENNE Guertin-Tardif List: (Indigo)

320) Q&A – Adrian Tomine List: (The New Yorker)

321) Question 7 – Richard Flanagan List: (Publishers Weekly)

322) Rabbit Heart – Kristine S. Ervin List: (The New Yorker)

323) Radiant The Life and Line of Keith Haring – Brad Gooch List: (Washington Post)

324) Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton List: (The Globe)

325) Rat City – Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden List: (NYPL)

326) Reading Genesis – Marilynne Robinson List: (The New Yorker)

327) Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale – Paul Yamazaki List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

328) Réfléchir pour mourir moins cave: 35 questions philosophiques à se mettre sous la dent – LOUIS Dugal List: (Indigo)

329) Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood – Gretchen Sisson List: (NPR)

330) Remembering Peasants – Patrick Joyce List: (The New Yorker)

331) Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World – David Van Reybrouck List: (The New Yorker)

332) Riding Like the Wind The Life of Sanora Babb – Iris Jamahl Dunkle List: (Washington Post)

333) Salvage Readings from the Wreck – Dionne Brand List: (New York Times)

334) Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank – Justene Hill Edwards List: (Publishers Weekly)

335) Sea Level – Wilko Graf von Hardenberg List: (The New Yorker)

336) Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Reinventing Your Life – Henry Oliver List: (Listener)

337) Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon by Lauren Sherman and Chantal Fernandez – Lauren Sherman Chantal Fernandez List: (Independent)

338) Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery – Annie Liontas List: (Electric Lit)

339) Shakespeare’s Sisters – Ramie Targoff List: (The New Yorker)

340) Shakespeare’s Tragic Art – Rhodri Lewis List: (The New Yorker)

341) Shepherd’s Sight: A Farming Life – Barbara McLean List: (The Globe)

342) Sidetracks – Bei Dao, translated by Jeffrey Yang List: (NPR)

343) Sing Like Fish – Amorina Kingdon List: (The Globe)

344) Sir John A. Macdonald and the Apocalyptic Year 1885 – Patrice Dutil List: (The Globe)

345) Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss and Family Recipes – Chantha Nguon List: (BookPage)

346) Smarter by E. M. Austen – List: (Independent)

347) Sociopath: A Memoir – Patric Gagne List: (NPR)

348) Sonny Boy – Al Pacino List: (The New Yorker)

349) Spinoza – Ian Buruma List: (The New Yorker)

350) Still as Bright – Christopher Cokinos List: (The Globe)

351) Still Life with Remorse – Maira Kalman List: (NPR)

352) Strong Passions – Barbara Weisberg List: (Star Tribune)

353) Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water – Vicki Valosik List: (NPR)

354) Ta langue – List: (Indigo)

355) Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power – Timothy W. Ryback List: (The New Yorker)

356) Taming Silicon Valley – Gary F. Marcus List: (The New Yorker)

357) Tchaikovsky’S Empire: A New Life Of Russia’S Greatest Composer – Simon Morrison List: (Listener)

358) Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism – Yanis Varoufakis List: (NYPL)

359) Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse – Brontez Purnell List: (Electric Lit)

360) Ten Trips: A Psychedelic Adventure – Andy Mitchell List: (Listener)

361) Thank You Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South – Kate Medley List: (NPR)

362) The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters – Begoña Gómez Urzaiz, translated by Lizzie Davis List: (NPR)

363) The Age of Revolutions – Nathan Perl-Rosenthal List: (The New Yorker)

364) The Art of Dying – Peter Schjeldahl List: (The New Yorker)

365) The Beautiful Afternoon – Airini Beautrais List: (Listener)

366) The Big Freeze: 
A Reporter’s Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility – Natalie Lampert List: (Publishers Weekly)

367) The Black Box Writing the Race – Henry Louis Gates Jr. List: (New York Times)

368) The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays – Joan Acocella List: (The New Yorker)

369) The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore – Evan Friss List: (The New Yorker)

370) The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory – Thomas Fuller List: (Amazon)

371) The Brothers Grimm – Ann Schmiesing List: (The New Yorker)

372) The C.I.A. – Hugh Wilford List: (The New Yorker)

373) The Chthonic Cycle – Una Cruickshank List: (Listener)

374) The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages – Shane Bobrycki List: (The New Yorker)

375) The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit – Julian Randall List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

376) The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty – Valerie Bauerlein List: (Goodreads)

377) The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War – Nick Lloyd List: (Listener)

378) The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II – Candace Fleming List: (NPR)

379) The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power – Dana Mattioli List: (Publishers Weekly)

380) The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without – John Oakes List: (Publishers Weekly)

381) The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport – Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg List: (NPR)

382) The Freaks Came Out to Write The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture – Tricia Romano List: (The New Yorker)

383) The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World – William Dalrymple List: (Listener)

384) The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War – Carl Sciacchitano List: (STLPR)

385) The Icon and the Idealist – Stephanie Gorton List: (The New Yorker)

386) The Importance of Being Educable – Leslie Valiant List: (The New Yorker)

387) The Indian Card – Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz List: (The New Yorker)

388) The Invention of Prehistory – Stefanos Geroulanos List: (The New Yorker)

389) The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914–1924 – John O’Beirne Ranelagh List: (The New Yorker)

390) The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism – Tim Alberta List: (Goodreads)

391) The Last Dream – Pedro Almodóvar List: (The New Yorker)

392) The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History – Manjula Martin List: (NPR)

393) The Last Secret Agent – Pippa Latour with Jude Dobson List: (Listener)

394) The Lasting Harm by Lucia Osborne-Crowley – List: (Independent)

395) The Letters of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell List: (NPR)

396) The Letters of Seamus Heaney – Seamus Heaney Christopher Reid List: (The New Yorker)

397) The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration – Frank Abe Floyd Cheung List: (The New Yorker)

398) The Lucky Ones – Zara Chowdhary List: (TIME)

399) The Manicurist’s Daughter – Susan Lieu List: (NPR)

400) The Men Who Killed the News – Eric Beecher List: (Readings)

401) The Minotaur at Calle Lanza – Zito Madu List: (Washington Post)

402) The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World – Daisy Dunn List: (The New Yorker)

403) The Mountains Are High – Alec Ash List: (NPR)

404) The New York Game Baseball and the Rise of a New City – Kevin Baker List: (New York Times)

405) The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place – Kate Summerscale List: (Independent)

406) The Picnic: An Escape To Freedom And The Collapse Of The Iron Curtain – Matthew Longo List: (Listener)

407) The Place of Tides – James Rebanks List: (Readings)

408) The Return of Great Powers Russia, China, and the Next World War – Jim Sciutto List: (New York Times)

409) The Riddles of the Sphinx – Anna Shechtman List: (The New Yorker)

410) The Right to Oblivion – Lowry Pressly List: (The New Yorker)

411) The Salt of the Universe – Amy Leach List: (The New Yorker)

412) The Season – Helen Garner List: (Readings)

413) The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster – John O’Connor List: (NPR)

414) The Secret Life of the Universe – Nathalie A. Cabrol List: (The New Yorker)

415) The Secret Public: How Lgbtq Performers Shaped Popular Culture – Jon Savage List: (Listener)

416) The Silenced Muse Emily Hale, T.S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime – Sara Fitzgerald List: (Washington Post)

417) The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice – Dan Slepian List: (Goodreads)

418) The Slow Road North How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country – Rosie Schaap List: (BookPage)

419) The Spamalot Diaries – Eric Idle List: (NPR)

420) The Spirit of Hope – Byung-Chul Han List: (The New Yorker)

421) The Story Game – Shze-Hui Tjoa List: (Electric Lit)

422) The Struggle for Taiwan – Sulmaan Wasif Khan List: (The New Yorker)

423) The Taft Court – Robert C. Post List: (The New Yorker)

424) The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism – Marjorie N. Feld List: (NPR)

425) The Traitor’s Daughter – Roxana Spicer List: (The Globe)

426) The Use of Photography – Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie List: (The New Yorker)

427) The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII – Nahlah Ayed List: (The Globe)

428) The Wealth Money Can’t Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life – Robin Sharma List: (Indigo)

429) The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards – Jessica Waite List: (The Globe)

430) The Wisdom of Sheep – Rosamund Young List: (The New Yorker)

431) The Wonderful Wisdom of Ants – Philip Bunting List: (NPR)

432) They Called It Peace – Lauren Benton List: (The New Yorker)

433) They Came for the Schools: One Town’s Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America’s Classrooms – Mike Hixenbaugh List: (The New Yorker)

434) This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life – Lyz Lenz List: (Electric Lit)

435) Thom Gunn – Michael Nott List: (The New Yorker)

436) Thunder Song: Essays – Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe List: (BookRiot)

437) Tiger, Tiger: The Prince Harry of Sports – James Patterson List: (Indigo)

438) Tits Up – Sarah Thornton List: (The New Yorker)

439) To Be a Jew Today – Noah Feldman List: (The New Yorker)

440) Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History Of Māori Art – Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis, with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki List: (Listener)

441) Traces of Enayat – Iman Mersal List: (The New Yorker)

442) Tripping on Utopia – Benjamin Breen List: (The New Yorker)

443) Triumph of the Yuppies – Tom McGrath List: (The New Yorker)

444) Troubled: A Memoir Of Foster Care, Family, And Social Class – Rob Henderson List: (Listener)

445) Turning to Stone – Marcia Bjornerud List: (The New Yorker)

446) Twinkind – William Viney List: (The New Yorker)

447) UN MONDE IMMENSE – COMMENT LES ANIMAUX PERCOIVENT LE MONDE: comment les animaux perçoivent le monde – Ed Yong List: (Indigo)

448) Undue Burden Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America – Shefali Luthra List: (The Globe)

449) Une (très) brève histoire de la vie sur Terre: 4,6 milliards d’années en 12 chapitres – Henry Gee List: (Indigo)

450) Unruly – David Mitchell List: (Listener)

451) Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back – Ruth Chan List: (NPR)

452) Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London – Oskar Jensen List: (The New Yorker)

453) Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight For Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal Catastrophe – Jared Sullivan List: (The New Yorker)

454) Venice: The Remarkable History Of The Lagoon City – Dennis Romano List: (Listener)

455) Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice – David S. Tatel List: (NPR)

456) Vox Ex Machina – Sarah A. Bell List: (The New Yorker)

457) Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous – Gillian Anderson List: (Goodreads)

458) Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America – Stephanie Kiser List: (Amazon)

459) We Loved It All A Memory of Life – Lydia Millet List: (Washington Post)

460) What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life – Billy Dee Williams List: (NPR)

461) What In Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade – Orlando Reade List: (Independent)

462) What She Said – Elizabeth Renzetti List: (The Globe)

463) What the Wild Sea Can Be – Helen Scales List: (The Globe)

464) When the Clock Broke Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s – John Ganz List: (New York Times)

465) When the Ice Is Gone – Paul Bierman List: (The New Yorker)

466) Where Rivers Part – Kao Kalia Yang List: (Star Tribune)

467) Who Owns This Sentence? – Alexandre Montagu David Bellos List: (The New Yorker)

468) Why Animals Talk – Arik Kershenbaum List: (The New Yorker)

469) Why We Die: The New Science Of Ageing And The Quest For Immortality – Venki Ramakrishnan List: (Listener)

470) Why We Read – Shannon Reed List: (The New Yorker)

471) Wild Thing: A Life Of Paul Gauguin – Sue Prideaux List: (Listener)

472) Witchcraft – Marion Gibson List: (The New Yorker)

473) Woman, Life, Freedom – Marjane Satrapi List: (NPR)

474) Women and the Piano – Susan Tomes List: (The New Yorker)

475) Wrong Is Not My Name – Erica N. Cardwell List: (Electric Lit)

476) Yesterday: A New History Of Nostalgia – Tobias Becker List: (Listener)

477) You Get What You Pay for: Essays – Morgan Parker List: (Electric Lit)

478) Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir – Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Costantini List: (NPR)



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