Best Nonfiction of the Decade (2010-2019)
This decade is already five days old and I’m still playing catch-up with my best books lists. On New Year’s Eve I shared my selections for Best Fiction of the Decade. Before this year disappears, here are my picks for Best Nonfiction of the Decade.
As with the first installment, I’m not including my review links because it’s too time-consuming to go back through the blog to find them (and probably very few people will actually click on them anyway, if we’re being realistic). If you would like more information about a particular title, let me know in the comments.
2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2011
Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home by Caitlin Shetterly
2012
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
2013
In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
2014
Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahisi Coates
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Belief is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe by Lori Jakiela
2016
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
2017
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nahisi Coates
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro
2018
Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin and a Measure of Life by David Giffels
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Educated by Tara Westover
2019
Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death by Ady Barkan
Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love by Abby Maslin
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World by Sasha Sagan
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