Past presidents, gambling champions, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, country music royalty Dolly Parton—the gang's all here. Prepare to dive into these 50 notable works of nonfiction as selected by The Washington Post.
 Wuhan Diary Dispatches from a Quarantined City
| 3.5 | 2 reads | |
 What Were We Thinking
| 3 | 1 read | |
 A Very Stable Genius
| 3.91 | 13 reads | |
 Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
| 4 | 1 read | |
 The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
| 3 | 1 read | |
 People, No
| 4 | 3 reads | |
 Pelosi
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Max Jacob
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Man Who Ran Washington
| 4.5 | 1 read | |
 Kleptopia
| 3 | 4 reads | |
 I You We Them : Volume 1
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Humankind: A Hopeful History
| 4.21 | 60 reads | |
 Ghosting the News
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Galileo and the Science Deniers
| 4 | 1 read | |
 A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
| 4.5 | 5 reads | |
 Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
| 4.2 | 11 reads | |
 Dirt
| 4.05 | 16 reads | |
 Deviant's War
| 4.25 | 4 reads | |
 The Big Goodbye
| 4.14 | 13 reads | |
 All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Abe
| 4 | 1 read | |
 You're Not Listening
| 4.15 | 32 reads | |
 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
| 3.94 | 68 reads | |
 Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
| 4.04 | 123 reads | |
 What It's Like to Be a Bird
| 4.33 | 4 reads | |
 We Have Been Harmonized
| 4.67 | 4 reads | |
 Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
| 3.87 | 211 reads | |
 Uncanny Valley
| 3.93 | 112 reads | |
 Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
| 3.74 | 33 reads | |
 Too Much and Never Enough
| 3.7 | 89 reads | |
 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
| 4.21 | 119 reads | |
 Rigged
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Rage
| 3.97 | 36 reads | |
 A Promised Land
| 4.29 | 271 reads | |
 Minor Feelings
| 4.09 | 62 reads | |
 Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
| 4.35 | 51 reads | |
 How the South Won the Civil War
| 3.67 | 4 reads | |
 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
| 4.29 | 97 reads | |
 His Truth Is Marching On
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 Dolly Parton, Songteller
| 3.84 | 30 reads | |
 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
| 4.7 | 8 reads | |
 Dark Mirror
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Book of Eels
| 3.48 | 29 reads | |
 Breath
| 3.82 | 146 reads | |
 The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
| 4.1 | 45 reads | |
 Begin Again
| 4.1 | 7 reads | |
 Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
| 4 | 11 reads | |
 The Art of Her Deal
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Active measures the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
| 4.25 | 4 reads |
