NYT Notable Books (Non-Fiction) 2017
1. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 426,118 ratings 2. 
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,918 ratings 3. 
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 avg rating — 30,600 ratings 
5. 
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by:
Monica Hesse
3.79 avg rating — 16,447 ratings 
8. 
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating — 49,880 ratings 
10. 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,189 ratings
12. 
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
by:
Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating — 3,469 ratings 
14. 
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,455 ratings 15. 
17. 
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by:
Franklin Foer
3.62 avg rating — 2,238 ratings 
20. 
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
by:
Kevin Young
3.17 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 
21. 
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
by:
Graham Allison
4.20 avg rating — 7,032 ratings 21. 
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
by:
Joshua Green
3.80 avg rating — 5,934 ratings 24. 
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
by:
Richard O. Prum
4.06 avg rating — 2,787 ratings 25. 
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
by:
Lauren Elkin
3.58 avg rating — 4,032 ratings 
27. 
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.19 avg rating — 6,915 ratings 28. 
Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East
by:
Rachel Aspden
3.83 avg rating — 64 ratings 
30. 
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
by:
Yuri Slezkine
4.15 avg rating — 1,039 ratings 
32. 
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
by:
Suzy Hansen
4.06 avg rating — 2,775 ratings 33. 
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
by:
Julia Wertz
4.33 avg rating — 1,437 ratings 34. 
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
by:
Victor Sebestyen
4.24 avg rating — 2,652 ratings 
36. 
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
by:
Ganesh Sitaraman
4.12 avg rating — 387 ratings 
39. 
Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray
by:
Adam Federman
3.72 avg rating — 180 ratings 40. 
41. 
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
by:
Mike Wallace
4.34 avg rating — 361 ratings 42. 
Hamlet Globe to Globe: Two Years, 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play 3.73 avg rating — 295 ratings
45. 
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by:
James Forman Jr.
4.37 avg rating — 4,460 ratings 46. 
Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
by:
Alice Kaplan
4.12 avg rating — 311 ratings 47. 
48. 
To Siri With Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of a Machine
by:
Judith Newman
3.26 avg rating — 2,066 ratings 49. 
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by:
Michael Lewis
3.99 avg rating — 62,920 ratings 