Best Non-Fiction of 2019
1. 
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating — 148,977 ratings
2. 
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.40 avg rating — 101,058 ratings 
4. 
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by:
Jodi Kantor
4.34 avg rating — 43,154 ratings 5. 
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
by:
Pete Buttigieg
4.21 avg rating — 16,405 ratings 
7. 
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 329,271 ratings 
10. 
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
by:
Andrew G. McCabe
4.17 avg rating — 7,358 ratings 
13. 
The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
by:
Tommy Tomlinson
4.15 avg rating — 3,582 ratings 14. 
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by:
Stephanie Land
3.86 avg rating — 109,528 ratings 
21. 
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by:
Cal Newport
4.06 avg rating — 91,763 ratings 22. 
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by:
Daniel Immerwahr
4.46 avg rating — 19,103 ratings 23. 
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
by:
Helen Zia
4.47 avg rating — 5,195 ratings 
25. 
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
by:
Katharine Smyth
3.81 avg rating — 861 ratings 
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.52 avg rating — 83,049 ratings 31. 
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
by:
Brad Meltzer
3.82 avg rating — 13,572 ratings 
34. 
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
by:
Preet Bharara
4.27 avg rating — 5,816 ratings 
36. 
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
by:
Maureen Callahan
4.08 avg rating — 45,968 ratings 37. 
The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
by:
Shawn Levy
3.67 avg rating — 4,466 ratings 37. 
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating — 25,707 ratings 
40. 
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
by:
Adam Makos
4.53 avg rating — 6,472 ratings 41. 
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
by:
Giles Milton
4.36 avg rating — 1,133 ratings 
43. 
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
by:
Oprah Winfrey
3.96 avg rating — 17,205 ratings 44. 
Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution
by:
Jennifer Block
4.15 avg rating — 840 ratings 45. 
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
by:
Kevin M. Kruse
4.06 avg rating — 1,237 ratings 46. 
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
by:
Garrett M. Graff
4.72 avg rating — 41,750 ratings 47. 
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
by:
Carolyn Forché
4.42 avg rating — 3,266 ratings 48. 
When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back
by:
David Kirby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 64 ratings 49. 
Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election 4.04 avg rating — 3,094 ratings
51. 
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
by:
Emily Nussbaum
3.97 avg rating — 6,551 ratings 52. 
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
by:
Karen Kilgariff
4.07 avg rating — 75,183 ratings 
54. 
Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
by:
Lisa Damour
4.30 avg rating — 3,891 ratings 55. 
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
by:
Amber Scorah
3.81 avg rating — 4,986 ratings 56. 
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
by:
Mallory O'Meara
3.96 avg rating — 6,505 ratings 57. 
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us 4.50 avg rating — 8,098 ratings
58. 
Be Kind: You Can Make the World a Happier Place! 125 Kind Things to Say & Do
by:
Naomi Shulman
4.39 avg rating — 149 ratings 59. 
Just Peachy: Comics About Depression, Anxiety, Love, and Finding the Humor in Being Sad
by:
Holly Chisholm
3.89 avg rating — 1,347 ratings 
61. 
Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever
by:
Gavin Edwards
4.19 avg rating — 3,086 ratings 62. 
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
by:
David McCullough
3.82 avg rating — 26,711 ratings 
63. 
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
by:
Thomas Lockley
3.77 avg rating — 1,699 ratings 65. 
What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics 4.61 avg rating — 6,754 ratings
68. 
Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics
by:
Chris Christie
3.77 avg rating — 1,389 ratings 69. 
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by:
Will Hunt
3.81 avg rating — 2,620 ratings 70. 
Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
by:
Irshad Manji
3.68 avg rating — 633 ratings 70. 
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
by:
Josh Levin
3.70 avg rating — 2,090 ratings 72. 
Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
by:
Cliff Sims
3.07 avg rating — 2,014 ratings 
76. 
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
by:
Brian Jay Jones
4.20 avg rating — 1,678 ratings 77. 
A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers
by:
Sari Solden
3.64 avg rating — 3,619 ratings 
77. 
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir
by:
Jeannie Vanasco
3.91 avg rating — 3,104 ratings 
81. 
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime
by:
Claire Harman
3.20 avg rating — 1,447 ratings 82. 
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
by:
Liz Plank
4.28 avg rating — 7,279 ratings 83. 
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,213 ratings 
84. 
Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
by:
Jonathan Mooney
4.17 avg rating — 1,407 ratings 84. 
Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
by:
Azadeh Moaveni
4.03 avg rating — 2,465 ratings 
88. 
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
by:
Anthony Harkins
3.84 avg rating — 735 ratings 89. 
A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
by:
Kerri Rawson
3.46 avg rating — 13,721 ratings 90. 
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by:
Tom O'Neill
4.04 avg rating — 32,211 ratings 
92. 
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice 4.30 avg rating — 116 ratings
93. 
Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
by:
Jeffrey Rosen
4.15 avg rating — 4,039 ratings 93. 
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by:
Sarah Rose
3.77 avg rating — 6,236 ratings 95. 
Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
by:
Sam Dagher
4.32 avg rating — 1,278 ratings 96. 
According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday
by:
Chris Enss
3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings 
97. 
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by:
Dani Shapiro
3.89 avg rating — 45,331 ratings 99. 
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
by:
Tony Platt
3.69 avg rating — 72 ratings 99. 
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
by:
Eric Foner
4.23 avg rating — 2,541 ratings