Year-End Lists

Kate Tuttle: 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2017, as published by The Boston Globe

• American Fire

  Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
  Monica Hesse
• The Blood of Emmett Till
  Timothy B. Tyson
• Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
  Jed Perl
• The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
  Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Color of Law

  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  Richard Rothstein
• Elizabeth Bishop

  A Miracle for Breakfast
  Megan Marshall
• The Extra Woman

  How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It
  Joanna Scutts
• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen
• Grant
  Ron Chernow
• Janesville

  An American Story
  Amy Goldstein
• The Kelloggs

  The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
  Howard Markel
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann
• Nine Continents

  A Memoir In and Out of China
  Xiaolu Guo
• Prairie Fires

  The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Caroline Fraser
• Priestdaddy
  Patricia Lockwood
• Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

  A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
  Kay Redfield Jamison
• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• What Happened
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
• You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
  Sherman Alexie