Best Nonfiction of 2024

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31 books
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Accidentally Wes Anderson

Wally Koval, 2020

Book and Dagger

How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Elyse Graham, 2024

By the Fire We Carry

The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Rebecca Nagle, 2024

CABIN

Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
Patrick Hutchison, 2024

Cher

The Memoir, Part One
Cher, 2024

Didion and Babitz

Lili Anolik, 2024

Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook (Core Rulebook, D&D Roleplaying Game)

Dungeons & Dragons, 2014

Every Valley

The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
Charles King, 2024

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem

How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
Rob Sheffield, 2024

Forest of Noise

Poems
Mosab Abu Toha, 2024

John Lewis

A Life
David Greenberg, 2024

Kingmaker

Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell, 2024

Lifeform

Jenny Slate, 2024

Living on Earth

Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2024

Meditations for Mortals

Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, 2024

Nexus

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, 2024

On Freedom

Timothy Snyder, 2024

Revenge of the Tipping Point

Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, 2024

Roman Year

A Memoir
André Aciman, 2024

Still Life with Remorse

Maira Kalman, 2024

The Basketball 100

The Athletic, David Aldridge, John Hollinger, 2024

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2024

The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.

A Biography
Peter Ames Carlin, 2024

The Northwomen

Untold Stories from the Other Half of the Viking World
Heather Pringle, 2024

The Serviceberry

Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2024

The Siege

A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
Ben Macintyre, 2024

The Small and the Mighty

Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Sharon McMahon, 2024

The World Atlas of Honey

C. Marina Marchese, 2024

Want

Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
2024

Water, Water

Poems
Billy Collins, 2024

What the Chicken Knows

A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
Sy Montgomery, 2024