Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023

• The 272

  The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
  Rachel L. Swarns
• Affinities

  On Art and Fascination
  Brian Dillon
• Althea

  The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson
  Sally H. Jacobs
• American Gun

  The True Story of the AR-15
  Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
• The Art Thief

  A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
  Michael Finkel
• The Best Minds

  A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
  Jonathan Rosen
• The Big Break

  The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind
  Ben Terris
• Built from the Fire

  The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
  Victor Luckerson
• Collision of Power

  Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post
  Martin Baron
• Correction

  Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
  Ben Austen
• The Country of the Blind

  A Memoir at the End of Sight
  Andrew Leland
• The Critic's Daughter

  A Memoir
  Priscilla Gilman
• Democracy Awakening

  Notes on the State of America
  Heather Cox Richardson
• The Dictionary People

  The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
  Sarah Ogilvie
• Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

  A Memoir
  Lucinda Williams
• Fatherland

  A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
  Burkhard Bilger
• A Fever in the Heartland

  The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
  Timothy Egan
• Fire Weather

  A True Story from a Hotter World
  John Vaillant
• George

  A Magpie Memoir
  Frieda Hughes
• Gun Country

  Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America
  Andrew C. McKevitt
• An Inconvenient Cop

  My Fight to Change Policing in America
  Eric Raymond
• Leg

  The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
  Greg Marshall
• Liliana's Invincible Summer

  A Sister's Search for Justice
  Cristina Rivera Garza
• Lives of the Wives

  Five Literary Marriages
  Carmela Ciuraru
• Lou Reed

  The King of New York
  Will Hermes
• Monsters

  A Fan's Dilemma
  Claire Dederer
• Number Go Up

  Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
  Zeke Faux
• Of Time and Turtles

  Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
  Sy Montgomery
• Pageboy
  Elliot Page
• The People's Hospital

  Hope and Peril in American Medicine
  Ricardo Nuila
• The Possibility of Life

  Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
  Jaime Green
• President Garfield

  From Radical to Unifier
  C.W. Goodyear
• The Red Hotel

  Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War
  Alan Philips
• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  Ned Blackhawk
• Saying It Loud

  1966―The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
  Mark Whitaker
• The Secret Gate

  A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan
  Mitchell Zuckoff
• Spare
  Prince Harry
• Starkweather

  The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America
  Harry N MacLean
• The Story of a Life
  Konstantin Paustovsky
• To Free the Captives

  A Plea for the American Soul
  Tracy K. Smith
• UFO

  The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There
  Garrett M. Graff
• Under the Eye of Power

  How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
  Colin Dickey
• The Upside-Down World

  Meetings with the Dutch Masters
  Benjamin Moser
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

  A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
  Tahir Hamut Izgil
• We Were Once a Family

  A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
  Roxanna Asgarian
• When Crack Was King

  A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
  Donovan X. Ramsey
• Winnie and Nelson

  Portrait of a Marriage
  Jonny Steinberg
• Without Children

  The Long History of Not Being a Mother
  Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
• The Wounded World

  W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War
  Chad L. Williams