Editors' Top Picks
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam HigginbothamSay Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Five by Hallie RubenholdHow to Hide an Empire by Daniel ImmerwahrCode Name by Larry Loftis
History Published in Year: 2019
3rd out of 393 books — 115 voters
How to Be a Victorian by Ruth GoodmanInside the Victorian Home by Judith FlandersThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonVictorian London by Liza PicardThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold
Nonfiction Books on the Victorian Era
5th out of 404 books — 109 voters

Wild Life by Keena RobertsMaid by Stephanie LandThe Five by Hallie RubenholdWhat You Have Heard Is True by Carolyn ForchéThe Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara
Women's biographies 2019
3rd out of 271 books — 125 voters
The Five by Hallie RubenholdThe Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate SummerscaleThe Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable by Carol BaxterDid She Kill Him? by Kate ColquhounMurder by the Book by Claire Harman
Victorian True Crime
1st out of 78 books — 26 voters

The Alice Network by Kate QuinnThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather MorrisLilac Girls by Martha Hall KellyAnxious People by Fredrik BackmanThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold
52 Book Club 2021: #48 A Cover With A Woman Who Is Facing Away
5th out of 357 books — 61 voters
The Five by Hallie RubenholdThe Library Book by Susan OrleanVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisAn Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Reading Women Challenge 2020 #6 A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian
1st out of 77 books — 26 voters

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleGator Country by Rebecca RennerAmerican Predator by Maureen CallahanThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold
True Crime by Women and POC
5th out of 209 books — 30 voters
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado PérezStiff by Mary RoachWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals ... by Caitlin DoughtyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
[ATY 2021] - Nonfiction That's Not A Memoir or Biography
24th out of 934 books — 118 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachWorking Stiff by Judy MelinekSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyThe Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor HermanThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
morbid curiosity nonfiction
10th out of 251 books — 21 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonQuiet by Susan CainThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
156th out of 2,091 books — 1,464 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Wright Brothers by David McCulloughUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
History Published in Decade: 2010s
7th out of 324 books — 28 voters
The Testaments by Margaret AtwoodEducated by Tara WestoverMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteWhat If It's Us by Becky AlbertalliRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Popsugar 2020 - A Book that Won an Award in 2019
22nd out of 138 books — 102 voters

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraStay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered by Karen KilgariffIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Murderino Reading List!
18th out of 197 books — 74 voters
The Five by Hallie RubenholdThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootCode Girls by Liza MundySingled Out by Virginia Nicholson
Rediscovered history
1st out of 208 books — 16 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi NajjarThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe You Beyond You by Ramzi Najjar
Unique Nonfiction Books
24th out of 316 books — 173 voters
The Five by Hallie RubenholdThe Outlaw Ocean by Ian UrbinaOn Chapel Sands by Laura CummingThe Anarchy by William DalrympleGuest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni
Baillie Gifford Prize 2019 Longlist
1st out of 12 books — 5 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherJourney to the West by Biao WangThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Vote For Your 100 Favorite Non-Fiction Books of All Time
19th out of 419 books — 104 voters
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeCatch and Kill by Ronan FarrowKnow My Name by Chanel MillerShe Said by Jodi KantorShortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg
Best Non-Fiction of 2019
51st out of 333 books — 190 voters

The Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPostwar by Tony JudtThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
European History
109th out of 788 books — 160 voters
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensBecoming by Michelle ObamaEducated by Tara WestoverEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanDaisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
2019: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2019
592nd out of 6,622 books — 866 voters

The Warner Loughlin Technique by Warner LoughlinThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootActor for Life by Connie de VeerBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Nonfiction by Female Authors
16th out of 365 books — 64 voters
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeMaybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori GottliebKnow My Name by Chanel MillerThe Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun WangThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold
2020 BookTube Prize Nonfiction Longlist
5th out of 48 books — 8 voters

Broadway General Manager by Peter BogyoThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver SacksHappy Returns by Benedict MaynardInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerShakespeare by Bill Bryson
Best Non-fiction
13th out of 248 books — 53 voters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersThe Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher by E.M. AndersonThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneThe Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
[ATY 2021] - 6+ Words in Title
101st out of 952 books — 105 voters

A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensGreat Expectations by Charles DickensForever Amber by Kathleen WinsorOliver Twist by Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
London In Fact And Fiction
12th out of 174 books — 21 voters
The Five by Hallie RubenholdDevil in the Grove by Gilbert KingReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonWitness to the Revolution by Clara Bingham
Nonfiction books that should be a film or show
1st out of 40 books — 8 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloot RebeccaThe Five by Hallie RubenholdBetty by Tiffany McDanielFast Girls by Elise HooperThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
the cost of being a woman
2nd out of 48 books — 7 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold1984 by George OrwellOne of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Books With Titles Including Numbers
3rd out of 435 books — 11 voters

Mudlark by Lara MaiklemThe Ravenmaster by Christopher SkaifeThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLondon Under by Peter AckroydThe Five by Hallie Rubenhold
Best History of London Books
5th out of 49 books — 14 voters
The Five by Hallie RubenholdA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanAladdin's Lamp by John FreelyGenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
AP World: Modern Recommended Reading
1st out of 45 books — 2 voters

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