Best Non-Fiction of 2019
202. 
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
by:
Brenda Wineapple
4.06 avg rating — 1,699 ratings 
202. 
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience 4.14 avg rating — 5,359 ratings
206. 
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
by:
Leo Damrosch
3.92 avg rating — 1,381 ratings 
206. 
206. 
The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
by:
Gina Rippon
3.88 avg rating — 2,458 ratings 
210. 
Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution
by:
Amber Tamblyn
3.90 avg rating — 1,600 ratings 
214. 
Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
by:
Reshma Saujani
3.87 avg rating — 9,356 ratings 
217. 
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by:
Bill McKibben
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,091 ratings 217. 
Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
by:
Anthony Everitt
4.04 avg rating — 1,019 ratings 217. 
Recipes for Self-Love: How to Feel Good in a Patriarchal World
by:
Alison Rachel
4.22 avg rating — 157 ratings 220. 
Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and The Future of News
by:
Jill Abramson
3.74 avg rating — 666 ratings 220. 
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 4.29 avg rating — 4,915 ratings
220. 
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
by:
DaMaris B. Hill
4.03 avg rating — 792 ratings 
224. 
224. 
Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
by:
Ayaz Virji
4.14 avg rating — 1,943 ratings 224. 
The Afterlife of King James IV: Otherworld Legends of the Scottish King 3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
224. 
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
by:
Toni Morrison
4.30 avg rating — 4,085 ratings 228. 
232. 
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
by:
Nancy Isenberg
4.05 avg rating — 300 ratings 
234. 
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by:
Rashid Khalidi
4.49 avg rating — 29,919 ratings 235. 
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by:
Benjamin Dreyer
4.34 avg rating — 9,242 ratings 235. 
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History
by:
Massoud Hayoun
4.14 avg rating — 465 ratings 
238. 
All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
by:
Darcy Lockman
4.15 avg rating — 2,557 ratings 240. 
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
by:
Susan Ware
3.90 avg rating — 934 ratings 
243. 
243. 
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World 4.49 avg rating — 4,351 ratings
245. 
Outspoken: Why Women's Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free 3.63 avg rating — 407 ratings
246. 
Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival
by:
Diane Noomin
4.35 avg rating — 654 ratings 248. 
The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
by:
Julie Satow
3.81 avg rating — 2,426 ratings 248. 
From Sabotage to Support: A New Vision for Feminist Solidarity in the Workplace
by:
Joy L. Wiggins
3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings 250. 
They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The '69 Mets, New York City, and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History
by:
Wayne Coffey
4.11 avg rating — 415 ratings 250. 
On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw 4.42 avg rating — 248 ratings
252. 
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
by:
William J. Burns
4.28 avg rating — 1,701 ratings 
254. 
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
by:
Eric J. Topol
4.02 avg rating — 2,718 ratings 254. 
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
by:
Jen Gunter
4.35 avg rating — 9,138 ratings 256. 
The Hormone Diaries: The Bloody Truth About Our Periods
by:
Hannah Witton
4.24 avg rating — 741 ratings 257. 
Inside The Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees
by:
Bob Klapisch
3.72 avg rating — 717 ratings 
259. 
Let's Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks
by:
Ron Rapoport
4.06 avg rating — 422 ratings 
261. 
261. 
New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi and K-Pop
by:
Fatima Bhutto
3.55 avg rating — 426 ratings 
263. 
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
by:
Tina Cassidy
4.19 avg rating — 459 ratings 266. 
Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
by:
Chelsea Handler
4.05 avg rating — 34,173 ratings 
269. 
269. 
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
by:
Susannah Cahalan
3.64 avg rating — 12,201 ratings 
272. 
Here's the Catch: A Memoir of the Miracle Mets and More
by:
Ron Swoboda
3.81 avg rating — 97 ratings 272. 
So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire
by:
Anna Russell
4.18 avg rating — 146 ratings 274. 
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
by:
Larry Diamond
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 267 ratings 274. 
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
by:
David Farber
4.01 avg rating — 161 ratings 274. 
277. 
Miracle in the Cave: The 12 Lost Boys, Their Coach, and the Heroes Who Rescued Them
by:
Liam Cochrane
4.24 avg rating — 195 ratings 277. 
The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity 4.32 avg rating — 255 ratings
277. 
Surrender: Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness
by:
Jessica Restaino
4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings 280. 
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
by:
Jack Fairweather
4.33 avg rating — 8,358 ratings 
283. 
For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball
by:
Bud Selig
3.86 avg rating — 734 ratings 284. 
Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
by:
Isha Sesay
3.82 avg rating — 1,766 ratings 284. 
Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism
by:
Andrew Feffer
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
287. 
Influenza: The Quest to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
by:
Jeremy Brown
3.98 avg rating — 1,774 ratings 287. 
Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot
by:
Vivien Goldman
3.77 avg rating — 763 ratings 290. 
The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Tragedy and Triumph 4.11 avg rating — 1,569 ratings
290. 
The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women: 50 Trailblazers of Comedy
by:
Sheila Moeschen
3.89 avg rating — 143 ratings 292. 
Homeland Maternity: US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
292. 
The Visual Is Political: Feminist Photography and Countercultural Activity in 1970s Britain liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
294. 
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
by:
Sam Kean
4.34 avg rating — 3,997 ratings 
297. 
The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home 3.91 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
298. 
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
by:
Amanda Montell
4.24 avg rating — 25,822 ratings 299. 
Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living
by:
Elyakim Kislev
3.84 avg rating — 205 ratings 