Nonfiction Published in Year: 2024
101. 
Default: The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
by:
Gregory Makoff
4.32 avg rating — 213 ratings 101. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 
104. 
A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime
by:
Casey Sherman
3.73 avg rating — 1,613 ratings 106. 
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
by:
Chantha Nguon
4.31 avg rating — 2,659 ratings 106. 
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The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
by:
Adam Shatz
4.21 avg rating — 397 ratings 
106. 
The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History)
by:
Marjorie Feld
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 51 ratings 
111. 
Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland
by:
Alistair Moffat
3.76 avg rating — 38 ratings 111. 
The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
by:
Gísli Pálsson
3.72 avg rating — 103 ratings 111. 
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age 3.51 avg rating — 1,527 ratings
111. 
Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself
by:
Crystal Hefner
3.71 avg rating — 18,729 ratings 111. 
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
by:
Rob Henderson
4.17 avg rating — 5,428 ratings 111. 
The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics 4.15 avg rating — 279 ratings
111. 
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
by:
Manjula Martin
3.70 avg rating — 433 ratings 111. 
Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
by:
Jill Eicher
3.63 avg rating — 49 ratings 123. 
The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty 4.46 avg rating — 9,927 ratings
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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
by:
Andrea Freeman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 447 ratings 125. 
Insect Cuisine: Changing the Future of Food, Farming, and Nutrition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
125. 
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
by:
Karen Valby
4.22 avg rating — 1,730 ratings 125. 
Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
by:
Sarah Thornton
3.69 avg rating — 1,509 ratings 
130. 
Plague Ship: The Untold Story of Captain Cook and His Legacy
by:
Kirstin Downey
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 130. 
Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants
by:
Jacob Kushner
4.11 avg rating — 166 ratings 130. 
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds that Made Them
by:
Stefan Bachmann
3.70 avg rating — 254 ratings 130. 
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The Me I Was Made to Be: Helping Christian Parents Navigate the Identity Conversation 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
135. 
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
by:
Brian Klaas
4.08 avg rating — 3,338 ratings 135. 
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
by:
Amitav Ghosh
4.07 avg rating — 1,411 ratings 135. 
Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
by:
Aaron Betsky
3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 138. 
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith
by:
April Ajoy
4.50 avg rating — 2,321 ratings 
138. 
Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
by:
Craig Whitlock
4.33 avg rating — 1,287 ratings 141. 
Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
by:
Nancy A. Nichols
3.58 avg rating — 109 ratings 
141. 
Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
by:
Damon Tweedy
4.26 avg rating — 160 ratings 144. 
Environomics: How the Global Economy is Going Green
by:
Dharshini David
3.57 avg rating — 35 ratings 144. 
The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War
by:
James Shapiro
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 202 ratings 146. 
The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
by:
A.J. Jacobs
4.02 avg rating — 2,364 ratings 146. 
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
by:
Nick Corasaniti
3.99 avg rating — 316 ratings 
149. 
Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness
by:
Carrie Sheffield
3.70 avg rating — 238 ratings 149. 
The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
by:
Jim Morris
3.93 avg rating — 520 ratings 151. 
The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
by:
Rhaina Cohen
3.93 avg rating — 4,186 ratings 
151. 
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
by:
Steve Coll
4.37 avg rating — 2,541 ratings 154. 
Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
by:
Jared Cohen
4.23 avg rating — 1,335 ratings 155. 
The Book of Psychic Self-Defense: A Practical Guide to Protecting Yourself from Energetic and Supernatural Attacks
by:
Leanna Greenaway
3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings 155. 
Can Marketing Save the Planet?: 101 Practical Ways to Use Sustainable Marketing as a Force for Good
by:
Michelle Carvill
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 157. 
Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation
by:
Mark Larson
3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings 
159. 
American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again
by:
Yuval Levin
4.29 avg rating — 263 ratings 
159. 
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
by:
Fareed Zakaria
4.19 avg rating — 3,732 ratings 159. 
159. 
Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home
by:
Chris LaTray
4.28 avg rating — 394 ratings 164. 
All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women's Mental Health
by:
Misty Pratt
3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings 
164. 
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
by:
Aaron Mahnke
3.76 avg rating — 887 ratings 
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Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom: The Dangerous Allure of Censorship in the Digital Era 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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172. 
The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us 3.76 avg rating — 2,623 ratings
172. 
The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht: Voices from the Front Line of Scotland's Battle for Women's Rights
by:
Susan Dalgety
4.54 avg rating — 244 ratings 172. 
179. 
The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now
by:
Bakari Sellers
3.96 avg rating — 190 ratings 180. 
Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
by:
Ramie Targoff
3.85 avg rating — 644 ratings 180. 
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
by:
John Ganz
4.08 avg rating — 3,618 ratings 
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Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
by:
Mikita Brottman
3.44 avg rating — 3,905 ratings 
183. 
Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI
by:
Susie Alegre
3.85 avg rating — 84 ratings 187. 
Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House
by:
Dorothy Hoobler
3.38 avg rating — 88 ratings 187. 
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
by:
Wendy Pearlman
4.52 avg rating — 69 ratings 187. 
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
by:
Tiya Miles
4.08 avg rating — 1,002 ratings 
187. 
What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service 4.38 avg rating — 3,887 ratings
193. 
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by:
Kurt Wagner
4.10 avg rating — 420 ratings 193. 
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
by:
Alice Randall
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 375 ratings 193. 
There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
by:
Anna Akbari
3.57 avg rating — 7,829 ratings 
193. 
Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Laura Beers
3.65 avg rating — 110 ratings 200. 
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
by:
Charan Ranganath
3.93 avg rating — 2,485 ratings