Washington Post Nonfiction 2020
3. 
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating — 132,020 ratings 4. 
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by:
Jon Meacham
4.50 avg rating — 6,505 ratings 5. 
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America 4.31 avg rating — 4,665 ratings
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You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
by:
Kate Murphy
4.08 avg rating — 22,035 ratings 
10. 
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by:
Thomas Rid
4.14 avg rating — 1,451 ratings 
12. 
The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump
by:
Mary C. Jordan
3.11 avg rating — 2,224 ratings 
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own 4.39 avg rating — 6,233 ratings
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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
by:
Sam Wasson
4.10 avg rating — 3,664 ratings 16. 
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
by:
Maria Konnikova
4.07 avg rating — 15,277 ratings 
18. 
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
by:
Patrik Svensson
3.92 avg rating — 21,239 ratings 19. 
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
by:
Barton Gellman
4.04 avg rating — 1,139 ratings 
21. 
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
by:
Eric Cervini
4.31 avg rating — 3,375 ratings 22. 
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
by:
Bill Buford
3.66 avg rating — 9,241 ratings 23. 
Dolly Parton Songteller: My Life in Lyrics: My Life in Lyrics
by:
Dolly Parton
4.02 avg rating — 26,761 ratings 24. 
25. 
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
by:
Eric Jay Dolin
4.07 avg rating — 1,643 ratings 
27. 
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy 3.93 avg rating — 749 ratings
28. 
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by:
Mikki Kendall
4.36 avg rating — 60,796 ratings 
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I You We Them: Volume 1: Walking into the World of the Desk Killer
by:
Dan Gretton
3.80 avg rating — 112 ratings 31. 
32. 
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
by:
Peter Baker
4.44 avg rating — 2,802 ratings 
34. 
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by:
Layla F. Saad
4.33 avg rating — 30,142 ratings 35. 
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
by:
Jia Lynn Yang
4.14 avg rating — 795 ratings 36. 
37. 
The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
by:
Adam Sisman
3.44 avg rating — 378 ratings 
39. 
Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference
by:
David Shimer
4.17 avg rating — 413 ratings 40. 
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
by:
Amy Stanley
3.77 avg rating — 2,298 ratings 41. 
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by:
Mary L. Trump
3.82 avg rating — 95,067 ratings 42. 
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
by:
Anne Applebaum
3.90 avg rating — 16,815 ratings 
44. 
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
by:
Philip Rucker
4.10 avg rating — 12,590 ratings 45. 
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
by:
Kai Strittmatter
4.14 avg rating — 3,425 ratings 46. 
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why 4.42 avg rating — 2,387 ratings
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What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
by:
Carlos Lozada
3.99 avg rating — 1,169 ratings 48. 
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
by:
Lulu Miller
4.14 avg rating — 51,782 ratings 
