Best Nonfiction of the Decade
This week Alice and Kim take a trip down memory lane to talk about books that appeared on best of the decade lists.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal, Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, and Book Riot’s Tailored Book Recommendations.
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Follow Up
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
New Books
A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution by David Head
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
Best Books of the Decade
Paste Magazine: The 25 Best Memoirs of the 2010s
LitHub: The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the Decade
Time: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s
Entertainment Weekly: Here are EW’s top 10 nonfiction books of the decade
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Emperor of All Maladies by Sidhartha Mukherjee
All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Dark Money by Jane Mayer
Reading Now
Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni
