Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Non Fiction 2024
1. 
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 2. 
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.34 avg rating — 134,881 ratings 3. 
LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
by:
Marie Arana
4.30 avg rating — 442 ratings 
7. 
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
by:
Hanif Abdurraqib
4.29 avg rating — 11,387 ratings 8. 
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
by:
Becca Rothfeld
3.55 avg rating — 1,127 ratings 9. 
America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
by:
Jacob Heilbrunn
3.83 avg rating — 220 ratings 
11. 
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
by:
Edward Wong
4.03 avg rating — 294 ratings 12. 
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
by:
Wright Thompson
4.33 avg rating — 6,328 ratings 13. 
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
by:
Elle Reeve
4.18 avg rating — 3,383 ratings 14. 
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
by:
Aaron Robertson
3.82 avg rating — 182 ratings 15. 
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space 4.52 avg rating — 14,516 ratings
16. 
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
by:
Keith O'Brien
4.39 avg rating — 2,671 ratings 
18. 
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
by:
Eliza Griswold
3.98 avg rating — 967 ratings 
22. 
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
by:
Jonathan Blitzer
4.47 avg rating — 6,883 ratings 
24. 
Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
by:
Rebecca L. Davis
3.95 avg rating — 154 ratings 
26. 
Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope
by:
Barrie Miskin
4.69 avg rating — 64 ratings 
28. 
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by:
Zoë Schlanger
4.28 avg rating — 6,418 ratings 29. 
Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World 3.55 avg rating — 263 ratings
30. 
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
by:
Russ Buettner
4.41 avg rating — 1,818 ratings 
33. 
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
by:
Tiya Miles
4.08 avg rating — 1,002 ratings 34. 
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of theHolocaust
by:
Chris Heath
4.43 avg rating — 249 ratings 35. 
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
by:
Bill Wasik
3.93 avg rating — 204 ratings 
37. 
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
by:
Sebastian Smee
4.13 avg rating — 997 ratings 
40. 
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
by:
Adam Shatz
4.21 avg rating — 397 ratings 41. 
43. 
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.38 avg rating — 5,354 ratings 44. 
The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime
by:
Sara Fitzgerald
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 45. 
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
by:
Edwin Frank
4.04 avg rating — 171 ratings 46. 
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
by:
Hannah Durkin
4.08 avg rating — 404 ratings 
