Year-End Lists

BookPage: Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

1. In the Dream House
   Carmen Maria Machado
2. Trick Mirror

   Reflections on Self-Delusion
   Jia Tolentino
3. Underland

   A Deep Time Journey
   Robert Macfarlane
4. Say Nothing

   A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
   Patrick Radden Keefe
5. Inheritance

   A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
   Dani Shapiro
6. The End of the Myth

   From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
   Greg Grandin
7. The British Are Coming

   The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
   Rick Atkinson
8. How We Fight for Our Lives
   Saeed Jones
9. Late Migrations

   A Natural History of Love and Loss
   Margaret Renkl
10. Three Women
    Lisa Taddeo
11. The Plateau
    Maggie Paxson
12. Figuring
    Maria Popova
13. Ordinary Girls
    Jaquira Díaz
14. Make It Scream, Make It Burn
    Leslie Jamison
15. Mama's Last Hug

    Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
    Frans de Waal
16. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

    Native America from 1890 to the Present
    David Treuer
17. Wild Game

    My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
    Adrienne Brodeur
18. Once More We Saw Stars
    Jayson Greene
19. The Yellow House
    Sarah M. Broom
20. No Visible Bruises

    What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
    Rachel Louise Snyder