Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2020
1. 
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by:
Robert Kolker
4.15 avg rating — 139,613 ratings 2. 
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by:
Mary L. Trump
3.82 avg rating — 95,045 ratings 3. 
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by:
Mikki Kendall
4.36 avg rating — 60,781 ratings 
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating — 131,987 ratings 
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Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus 4.48 avg rating — 1,199 ratings
8. 
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
by:
Phuc Tran
4.29 avg rating — 9,603 ratings 9. 
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
by:
Jon Billman
3.68 avg rating — 8,065 ratings 10. 
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by:
Layla F. Saad
4.33 avg rating — 30,140 ratings 
13. 
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America 4.23 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
15. 
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
by:
Michael Chabon
4.22 avg rating — 1,504 ratings 16. 
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Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office
by:
Susan Hennessey
4.27 avg rating — 449 ratings 18. 
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
by:
Emily Bazelon
4.31 avg rating — 1,825 ratings 19. 
Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House 4.41 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
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Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
by:
David Enrich
3.97 avg rating — 5,454 ratings 21. 
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
by:
Candace Owens
4.40 avg rating — 14,691 ratings 
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
by:
Ariana Neumann
4.33 avg rating — 7,251 ratings 26. 
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 329,263 ratings 27. 
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
by:
Helen Pluckrose
4.11 avg rating — 5,797 ratings 28. 
Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
by:
Nikki Khanna
3.97 avg rating — 119 ratings 29. 
Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb 3.66 avg rating — 487 ratings
30. 
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
by:
Emmanuel Saez
4.30 avg rating — 1,421 ratings 31. 
You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love 4.16 avg rating — 9,814 ratings
33. 
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
by:
Cassie Chambers
3.95 avg rating — 8,461 ratings 
35. 
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
by:
Vivian Gornick
3.73 avg rating — 1,144 ratings 36. 
Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline
by:
Loretta Lynn
4.30 avg rating — 2,952 ratings 37. 
The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
by:
Ravi Somaiya
3.69 avg rating — 640 ratings 
41. 
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
by:
Ilhan Omar
4.26 avg rating — 3,228 ratings 
43. 
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
by:
Tiffany Jewell
4.39 avg rating — 7,349 ratings 
45. 
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana 4.25 avg rating — 53 ratings
47. 
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
by:
Eben Kirksey
3.83 avg rating — 318 ratings 47. 
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by:
Jon Meacham
4.50 avg rating — 6,505 ratings 49. 
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl 4.19 avg rating — 6,057 ratings
50. 
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
by:
Mab Segrest
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings 
53. 
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
by:
Priyamvada Gopal
4.17 avg rating — 292 ratings 54. 
Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics: My Life in Lyrics
by:
Dolly Parton
4.02 avg rating — 26,757 ratings 55. 
No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements
by:
Hilary Moore
4.25 avg rating — 63 ratings 56. 
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think 4.23 avg rating — 3,953 ratings
58. 
What You Need to Know About Voting—and Why (Legal Expert Series)
by:
Kim Wehle
3.74 avg rating — 182 ratings 59. 
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
by:
Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating — 752 ratings 
61. 
Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life
by:
Jeffrey Rediger
4.51 avg rating — 1,315 ratings 62. 
American Daughter: A Memoir of Intergenerational Trauma, a Mother's Dark Secrets, and a Daughter's Quest for Redemption 4.19 avg rating — 3,958 ratings
63. 
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
by:
Lulu Miller
4.14 avg rating — 51,760 ratings 
65. 
Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
by:
Sarah Weinman
3.58 avg rating — 3,183 ratings 66. 
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.12 avg rating — 3,968 ratings 
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False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All
by:
Sally C. Pipes
3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings 
73. 
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
by:
Noé Álvarez
3.50 avg rating — 4,587 ratings 74. 
The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World
by:
Janice Kaplan
3.85 avg rating — 771 ratings 74. 
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI 3.66 avg rating — 10,270 ratings
78. 
My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide
by:
Jessica Stern
2.92 avg rating — 173 ratings 79. 
How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions
by:
Susan Eisenhower
4.32 avg rating — 654 ratings 80. 
How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos
by:
David Pogue
4.13 avg rating — 626 ratings 
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Privileged Victims: How America's Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People
by:
Eddie Scarry
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings 
85. 
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
by:
Michael J. Fox
4.12 avg rating — 23,834 ratings 86. 
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
by:
Eric Jay Dolin
4.07 avg rating — 1,642 ratings 87. 
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
by:
Anne Applebaum
3.90 avg rating — 16,804 ratings 
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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
by:
Jonathan Kaufman
4.27 avg rating — 4,819 ratings 91. 
Mind over Weight: Curb Cravings, Find Motivation, and Hit Your Number in 7 Simple Steps
by:
Ian K. Smith
3.40 avg rating — 658 ratings 91. 
Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
by:
Karen Blumenthal
4.33 avg rating — 1,088 ratings 91. 
Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential
by:
Roman Russo
4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings 94. 
Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
by:
Melissa Maerz
4.40 avg rating — 2,893 ratings 95. 
The Quick and the Dead: True Stories of Life and Death from a New Zealand Pathologist 4.19 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
by:
Jeff Pearlman
4.28 avg rating — 4,230 ratings 99. 
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
by:
Philip Rucker
4.10 avg rating — 12,588 ratings 100. 
Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima
by:
Martha MacCallum
3.90 avg rating — 2,834 ratings