Best Non-Fiction of 2018
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Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits 3.61 avg rating — 35,496 ratings
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Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race 3.97 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
by:
Robert Kurson
4.53 avg rating — 11,265 ratings 
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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
by:
Tessa Fontaine
3.91 avg rating — 1,491 ratings 
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,321 ratings 113. 
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The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation
by:
Guy Hull
3.87 avg rating — 196 ratings 115. 
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Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
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Stephen Fried
4.29 avg rating — 1,213 ratings 116. 
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
by:
Lucy Jones
4.13 avg rating — 1,704 ratings 116. 
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by:
Robin DiAngelo
4.16 avg rating — 170,214 ratings 
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On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
by:
Hampton Sides
4.59 avg rating — 7,259 ratings 125. 
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
by:
Mark Dery
3.76 avg rating — 1,311 ratings 126. 
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
by:
James R. Clapper
4.11 avg rating — 2,368 ratings 126. 
Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
by:
Ndaba Mandela
4.02 avg rating — 679 ratings 128. 
All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row
by:
James Patterson
3.87 avg rating — 12,241 ratings 129. 
A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
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James D. Wright
3.43 avg rating — 289 ratings 130. 
The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools 4.31 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
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Sarah Kendzior
4.10 avg rating — 4,373 ratings 131. 
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829
by:
Antonia Fraser
3.57 avg rating — 371 ratings 134. 
Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
by:
Mike Reiss
3.91 avg rating — 4,692 ratings 135. 
The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
by:
Diana Marcum
3.63 avg rating — 12,245 ratings 135. 
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster 3.68 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
by:
Catherine Hewitt
3.91 avg rating — 456 ratings 146. 
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
by:
Michelle Dean
3.42 avg rating — 1,502 ratings 
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
by:
David E. Sanger
4.25 avg rating — 3,384 ratings 149. 
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
by:
Corey Pein
3.49 avg rating — 1,052 ratings 149. 
Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America
by:
Sharmila Sen
4.04 avg rating — 494 ratings 
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
by:
Colm Tóibín
3.67 avg rating — 881 ratings 154. 
First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power 3.97 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.15 avg rating — 247 ratings 157. 
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
by:
Brittney Cooper
4.38 avg rating — 13,757 ratings 
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Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
by:
Tilar J. Mazzeo
3.97 avg rating — 3,030 ratings 160. 
A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
by:
Frye Gaillard
4.43 avg rating — 115 ratings 
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Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
by:
Bethany McLean
3.81 avg rating — 891 ratings 
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The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
by:
C.J. Chivers
4.33 avg rating — 1,386 ratings 
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery 3.89 avg rating — 7,372 ratings
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The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
by:
Daniel Kalder
3.63 avg rating — 477 ratings 171. 
The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again 3.45 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 
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AI Performance: The Art of Live Automation: The ultimate 'how to' guide in creating stunning, technical and revolutionary live shows for any contemporary musical performer
by:
Chris Frost
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 175. 
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
by:
Bill O'Reilly
4.09 avg rating — 14,987 ratings 
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Inside the Chinese Wine Industry: The Past, Present, and Future of Wine in China
by:
Loren Mayshark
3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings 175. 
Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress: A Practical Guide
by:
Gustavo Kinrys
4.05 avg rating — 123 ratings 
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Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy
by:
Parth Detroja
4.22 avg rating — 3,341 ratings 175. 
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At Home with Dyslexia: A Parent’s Guide to Supporting Your Child
by:
Sascha Roos
4.38 avg rating — 71 ratings 
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Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies
by:
Rick Edwards
3.91 avg rating — 1,531 ratings 191. 
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The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
by:
Matthew Horace
4.17 avg rating — 922 ratings