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Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

27 September 2019

Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

[see also The 25 Best Books of 2024 • The 20 Best Books of 2023 • The Best Books of 2022 • The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 • The 50 Best Books of 2021 • The Best Books of the 2010s]

  1. No Visible Bruises
    What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
    Rachel Louise Snyder
  2. Three Women
    Lisa Taddeo
  3. Trick Mirror
    Reflections on Self-Delusion
    Jia Tolentino
  4. Nobody's Victim
    Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
    Carrie Goldberg
  5. Savage Appetites
    Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
    Rachel Monroe
  6. She Said
    Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
    Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
  7. Make It Scream, Make It Burn
    Leslie Jamison
  8. Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
    Jeannie Vanasco
  9. In the Dream House
    Carmen Maria Machado
  10. The Witches Are Coming
    Lindy West
  11. For the Love of Men
    A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
    Liz Plank
  12. Formation
    A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line
    Ryan Leigh Dostie
  13. I Like to Watch
    Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
    Emily Nussbaum
  14. Shapes of Native Nonfiction
    Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
    Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton (editors)
  15. Because Internet
    Understanding the New Rules of Language
    Gretchen McCulloch
  16. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
    T Kira Madden
  17. Biased
    Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
    Jennifer L. Eberhardt
  18. Working
    Robert A. Caro
  19. I Miss You When I Blink
    Mary Laura Philpott
  20. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
    Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
    Michele Filgate (editor)
  21. Rough Magic
    Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
    Lara Prior-Palmer

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