NYT Editors’ Choice 201902
3. 
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
by:
Marlon James
3.45 avg rating — 30,281 ratings 
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6. 
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by:
Daniel Immerwahr
4.46 avg rating — 19,121 ratings 
8. 
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
by:
Katharine Smyth
3.81 avg rating — 861 ratings 
12. 
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating — 149,040 ratings
14. 
Notes from a Black Woman's Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins
by:
Kathleen Collins
3.66 avg rating — 143 ratings 15. 
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
by:
Hanif Abdurraqib
4.46 avg rating — 6,392 ratings 
18. 
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by:
Alan Rusbridger
4.23 avg rating — 730 ratings 19. 
Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and The Future of News
by:
Jill Abramson
3.74 avg rating — 666 ratings 
21. 
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 4.37 avg rating — 61,007 ratings
22. 
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by:
Stephanie Land
3.86 avg rating — 109,536 ratings 23. 
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After 4.10 avg rating — 10,960 ratings
24. 
An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex
by:
Siddharth Dube
3.81 avg rating — 54 ratings 25. 
Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
by:
Seth Fletcher
3.71 avg rating — 337 ratings 
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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 31. 
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
by:
Saidiya Hartman
4.43 avg rating — 4,693 ratings 
33. 
Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
by:
Jane Brox
3.34 avg rating — 231 ratings 34. 
If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved
by:
Michael Tomasky
3.96 avg rating — 178 ratings 35. 
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
by:
Steve Luxenberg
4.18 avg rating — 550 ratings 36. 
Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
by:
David Thomson
3.31 avg rating — 180 ratings 37. 
Notes on a Shipwreck: A Story of Refugees, Borders, and Hope
by:
Davide Enia
4.29 avg rating — 626 ratings 