Best Narrative Nonfiction
101. 
Breaking Up with Anxiety: A Journey to Reclaim My Life
by:
Whitney Rose
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 101. 
A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa
by:
Tony Bartelme
4.39 avg rating — 352 ratings 101. 
Diary of a H.O. (House Officer): A Collection of Short Stories from a Surgeon's First Year of Training.
by:
Brandon Green
4.12 avg rating — 342 ratings 
101. 
The Impact of Implants: My Journey Going from an A-Cup to a DD-Cup
by:
A.B. Higgins
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 101. 
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
by:
William Neuman
4.12 avg rating — 979 ratings 101. 
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by:
John Vaillant
4.12 avg rating — 12,029 ratings 
101. 
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
by:
Saidiya Hartman
4.43 avg rating — 4,693 ratings 
115. 
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by:
Caroline Weber
4.17 avg rating — 3,562 ratings 115. 
A Gospel of Shame: Children, Sexual Abuse, and the Catholic Church
by:
Frank Bruni
3.68 avg rating — 40 ratings 115. 
The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office
by:
Gary Delsohn
3.58 avg rating — 149 ratings 
115. 
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
by:
Kathryn Mannix
4.57 avg rating — 7,568 ratings 
122. 
Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent
by:
Mary Laven
3.72 avg rating — 266 ratings 122. 
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
by:
Jacqueline Dinan
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 
122. 
The Town That Died: A Chronicle of the Halifax Explosion
by:
Michael J. Bird
3.88 avg rating — 140 ratings 
122. 
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
by:
Siddharth Kara
4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings 122. 
The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning 4.13 avg rating — 1,515 ratings
130. 
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
by:
Joshua Zeitz
3.84 avg rating — 3,433 ratings 
130. 
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by:
Elif Batuman
3.71 avg rating — 5,946 ratings 130. 
The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
136. 
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography
by:
Clifton Crais
3.61 avg rating — 183 ratings 
136. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,029 ratings 136. 
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath
by:
Åsne Seierstad
4.42 avg rating — 12,704 ratings 136. 
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
by:
James Holland
4.44 avg rating — 2,542 ratings 142. 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating — 220,454 ratings 
142. 
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
by:
Dava Sobel
3.75 avg rating — 30,046 ratings 142. 
142. 
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World 4.18 avg rating — 540 ratings
147. 
Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story 3.59 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
147. 
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917
by:
Sally M. Walker
3.84 avg rating — 2,042 ratings 
147. 
Beyond the Game: The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith
by:
Gary Smith
4.41 avg rating — 154 ratings 
147. 
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
by:
Hampton Sides
4.25 avg rating — 38,785 ratings 154. 
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 
157. 
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
by:
Gavin Maxwell
3.70 avg rating — 285 ratings 158. 
The Castle on Sunset: Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
by:
Shawn Levy
3.67 avg rating — 4,470 ratings 158. 
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
by:
Matthew Goodman
3.73 avg rating — 6,475 ratings 
162. 
The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family
by:
Walt Harrington
4.40 avg rating — 131 ratings 163. 
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
by:
Ron Suskind
3.96 avg rating — 4,478 ratings 
165. 
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by:
Eric Schlosser
3.75 avg rating — 206,251 ratings 166. 
Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters
by:
William Finnegan
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings 
168. 
Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
by:
Richard Rhodes
4.01 avg rating — 1,460 ratings 
170. 
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by:
Neil Sheehan
4.24 avg rating — 12,399 ratings 171. 
The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms
by:
Ron Rosenbaum
4.32 avg rating — 144 ratings 172. 
The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism
by:
Madeleine Blais
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings 173. 
174. 
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People
by:
Susan Orlean
3.80 avg rating — 1,462 ratings 175. 
Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life
by:
Walt Harrington
4.34 avg rating — 50 ratings 176. 
The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft 4.04 avg rating — 753 ratings
177. 
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
by:
Kevin Kerrane
4.18 avg rating — 289 ratings