Best Non-Fiction of 2019
101. 
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do 4.32 avg rating — 8,624 ratings
102. 
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
by:
Lynne Olson
4.22 avg rating — 8,385 ratings 
104. 
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.44 avg rating — 7,762 ratings 104. 
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More
by:
Graham Tarrant
3.56 avg rating — 829 ratings 104. 
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
by:
Dave Barry
4.10 avg rating — 6,704 ratings 107. 
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
by:
Emily Bazelon
4.31 avg rating — 1,825 ratings 107. 
109. 
The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
by:
Jeff Guinn
3.75 avg rating — 828 ratings 110. 
America the Fair: Using Brain Science to Create a More Just Nation
by:
Dan Meegan
3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings 
112. 
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After 4.10 avg rating — 10,960 ratings
113. 
The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution
by:
Michael Kaufman
3.88 avg rating — 146 ratings 114. 
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
115. 
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
by:
John Waters
3.87 avg rating — 2,917 ratings 
118. 
America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
by:
Steven M. Gillon
3.93 avg rating — 1,883 ratings 119. 
121. 
Billion Dollar Fantasy: The High-Stakes Game Between FanDuel and DraftKings That Upended Sports in America
by:
Albert Chen
3.65 avg rating — 513 ratings 123. 
The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
by:
Rich Cohen
3.63 avg rating — 2,776 ratings 
125. 
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
by:
Leah Price
3.40 avg rating — 1,253 ratings 125. 
Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice
by:
Debbie Levy
4.47 avg rating — 2,024 ratings 127. 
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
by:
Tim Alberta
4.18 avg rating — 3,640 ratings 
127. 
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
by:
S.C. Gwynne
4.35 avg rating — 1,825 ratings 127. 
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
by:
Billy Jensen
4.08 avg rating — 16,694 ratings 127. 
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
by:
Paul Tough
4.39 avg rating — 2,333 ratings 127. 
Discover The Horror: One Man's 50-Year Quest for Monsters, Maniacs, and the Meaning of it All.
by:
Jon Kitley
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 127. 
Sixty Days (Based On A True Story): A Business Trip Becomes His Worst Nightmare
by:
Hernán Jaén
4.29 avg rating — 49 ratings 127. 
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
by:
Nita Sweeney
3.72 avg rating — 1,921 ratings 136. 
Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
by:
Isabel Sun Chao
4.30 avg rating — 1,207 ratings 
136. 
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
by:
Violet Moller
3.88 avg rating — 2,141 ratings 136. 
Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom 3.85 avg rating — 121 ratings
136. 
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
by:
Nita Sweeney
3.72 avg rating — 1,921 ratings 141. 
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
by:
Lindsey Hilsum
4.42 avg rating — 4,898 ratings 141. 
Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed
by:
Gianno Caldwell
4.33 avg rating — 147 ratings 143. 
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
by:
Valerie Jarrett
4.11 avg rating — 1,542 ratings 
145. 
Notes on a Shipwreck: A Story of Refugees, Borders, and Hope
by:
Davide Enia
4.29 avg rating — 626 ratings 145. 
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by:
Clive Thompson
3.97 avg rating — 2,729 ratings 147. 
147. 
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
by:
Clay Risen
3.99 avg rating — 611 ratings 
150. 
Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
by:
Ed Morales
3.86 avg rating — 356 ratings 
150. 
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
by:
Ian Urbina
4.37 avg rating — 6,249 ratings 153. 
153. 
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
by:
Jason DeParle
4.36 avg rating — 1,513 ratings 
156. 
Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
by:
Jon Meacham
3.77 avg rating — 1,698 ratings 156. 
It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
by:
Dale Beran
4.05 avg rating — 919 ratings 
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The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation 3.70 avg rating — 462 ratings
163. 
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
by:
Emily L. Thuma
4.39 avg rating — 90 ratings 163. 
Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
by:
Robert Hutton
3.71 avg rating — 711 ratings 
167. 
Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
by:
Tony Perrottet
4.30 avg rating — 735 ratings 
170. 
170. 
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
by:
Susan Rice
4.06 avg rating — 1,954 ratings 172. 
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II 4.50 avg rating — 9,389 ratings
173. 
Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
by:
Nick de Semlyen
4.06 avg rating — 3,063 ratings 174. 
174. 
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard 3.91 avg rating — 3,884 ratings
176. 
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America
by:
Bill Geist
3.60 avg rating — 3,006 ratings 
177. 
No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture
by:
Amber J. Keyser
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 241 ratings 179. 
The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
by:
Susan Page
4.12 avg rating — 4,291 ratings 
181. 
Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
by:
Vicky Ward
3.53 avg rating — 2,073 ratings 181. 
Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
by:
Charles Lane
3.61 avg rating — 580 ratings 
184. 
Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima
by:
Jeremy Treglown
3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings 
186. 
So Here’s the Thing…: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut 3.73 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
186. 
Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter 3.70 avg rating — 410 ratings
191. 
I'm Writing You from Tehran: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future
by:
Delphine Minoui
4.13 avg rating — 944 ratings 191. 
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction 4.29 avg rating — 4,870 ratings
194. 
Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"
by:
Ramin Setoodeh
3.75 avg rating — 7,039 ratings 194. 
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
by:
Andrea Dworkin
4.37 avg rating — 477 ratings 198. 
198. 
Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
by:
Carrie Goldberg
4.31 avg rating — 1,632 ratings 200. 
An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer
by:
Julie Salamon
3.98 avg rating — 143 ratings