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 |
 What Were We Thinking
| 3 |
 A Very Stable Genius
| 3.9 |
 Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
| 4 |
 The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
| 3 |
 People, No
| 4 |
 Pelosi
| 0 |
 One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
| 0 |
 Max Jacob
| 0 |
 The Man Who Ran Washington
| 4.5 |
 Kleptopia
| 3 |
 I You We Them : Volume 1
| 0 |
 Humankind: A Hopeful History
| 4.15 |
 Ghosting the News
| 4 |
 Galileo and the Science Deniers
| 4 |
 A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
| 4.5 |
 Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
| 4.2 |
 Dirt
| 4 |
 Deviant's War
| 4.25 |
 The Big Goodbye
| 4.05 |
 All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
| 0 |
 Abe
| 4 |
 You're Not Listening
| 4.18 |
 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
| 3.97 |
 Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
| 4.07 |
 What It's Like to Be a Bird
| 4 |
 We Have Been Harmonized
| 4.67 |
 Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
| 3.88 |
 Uncanny Valley
| 3.98 |
 Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
| 3.74 |
 Too Much and Never Enough
| 3.66 |
 The Splendid and the Vile
| 4.22 |
 Rigged
| 0 |
 Rage
| 4 |
 A Promised Land
| 4.31 |
 Minor Feelings
| 4.15 |
 Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
| 4.35 |
 How the South Won the Civil War
| 3.67 |
 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
| 4.28 |
 His Truth Is Marching On
| 4 |
 Dolly Parton, Songteller
| 3.75 |
 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
| 4.7 |
 Dark Mirror
| 0 |
 The Book of Eels
| 3.47 |
 Breath
| 3.82 |
 The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
| 4.13 |
 Begin Again
| 4.1 |
 Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
| 4.17 |
 The Art of Her Deal
| 4 |
 Active measures the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
| 4.25 |
