2024 NPR Non Fiction Staff Pick
2. 
A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
by:
Camille Peri
3.93 avg rating — 621 ratings 3. 
Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances
by:
Lucas Mann
3.89 avg rating — 82 ratings 
6. 
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
by:
Sunil Amrith
4.01 avg rating — 314 ratings 
8. 
Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America
by:
Paola Ramos
4.46 avg rating — 2,004 ratings 
10. 
Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
by:
Sadie Dingfelder
4.12 avg rating — 711 ratings 11. 
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
by:
Bianca Bosker
4.11 avg rating — 3,375 ratings 12. 
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
by:
Jessica Calarco
4.17 avg rating — 818 ratings 13. 
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler 4.10 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
14. 
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
by:
Sebastian Junger
3.82 avg rating — 7,996 ratings 15. 
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
by:
Renee DiResta
4.07 avg rating — 714 ratings 16. 
Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
by:
Jared Cohen
4.23 avg rating — 1,335 ratings 17. 
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
by:
Rahul Bhatia
3.57 avg rating — 168 ratings 18. 
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
by:
Hannah Ritchie
4.24 avg rating — 5,944 ratings 
20. 
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
by:
Michael Waters
4.43 avg rating — 827 ratings 21. 
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
by:
Gretchen Sisson
4.35 avg rating — 1,118 ratings 
23. 
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
by:
Cal Newport
3.68 avg rating — 20,846 ratings 
26. 
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
by:
Jason De León
4.30 avg rating — 2,228 ratings 27. 
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
by:
Charles Duhigg
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31,676 ratings 28. 
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 29. 
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
by:
Pamela Prickett
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,523 ratings 
32. 
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by:
Hampton Sides
4.46 avg rating — 15,148 ratings