Kirkus Reviews Starred Nonfiction 2020
1. 
Silence of Shame: A Child Caring for Her Bedridden Mother
by:
Wendy J. Menara
3.98 avg rating — 81 ratings 2. 
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
by:
Mab Segrest
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings 
5. 
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating — 132,002 ratings 
10. 
Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage 4.12 avg rating — 137 ratings
11. 
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
by:
Phuc Tran
4.29 avg rating — 9,605 ratings 12. 
13. 
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Jerry Mitchell
4.43 avg rating — 2,080 ratings 14. 
Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office
by:
Susan Hennessey
4.27 avg rating — 449 ratings 15. 
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
by:
Vivian Gornick
3.73 avg rating — 1,144 ratings 16. 
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
by:
Jon Billman
3.68 avg rating — 8,068 ratings 
18. 
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
by:
Walter Johnson
4.39 avg rating — 1,915 ratings 19. 
20. 
21. 
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
by:
Edward Ball
3.76 avg rating — 986 ratings 22. 
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl 4.19 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
23. 
The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment
by:
Linda M. Scott
4.29 avg rating — 577 ratings 24. 
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
by:
David Eagleman
4.16 avg rating — 4,960 ratings 25. 
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code 3.83 avg rating — 105 ratings
26. 
Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
by:
George Dyson
3.40 avg rating — 205 ratings 27. 
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump
by:
James A. Morone
4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings 28. 
Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir
by:
Judith G. Coffin
3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings 
31. 
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
by:
Ernest Freeberg
4.16 avg rating — 180 ratings 32. 
The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
by:
Delphine Minoui
4.13 avg rating — 2,728 ratings 33. 
34. 
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
by:
Hugh Raffles
4.05 avg rating — 238 ratings 
36. 
42. 
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
by:
Xiaowei Wang
4.03 avg rating — 1,975 ratings 43. 
44. 
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
by:
Matthew Yglesias
3.87 avg rating — 2,475 ratings 
