Year-End Lists

Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

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