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The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

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.

Abe

Abe
ByDavid S. Reynolds

2020 • 5 Readers • 1,088 pages 4

Active measures the secret history of disinformation and political warfare

2020 • 21 Readers • 528 pages 4.3

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

2020 • 10 Readers 4.5

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

2020 • 4 Readers • 304 pages

A Promised Land

A Promised Land
ByBarack Obama

2020 • 509 Readers • 768 pages 4.3

A Very Stable Genius

A Very Stable Genius
ByPhilip Rucker,Carol Leonnig

2021 • 23 Readers • 513 pages 3.9

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
ByDuchess Goldblatt,Anonymous

2020 • 22 Readers • 239 pages 4.2

Begin Again

Begin Again
ByEddie S. Glaude (Jr.)

2020 • 29 Readers • 269 pages 4.1

Breath

Breath
ByJames Nestor

302 Readers 3.8

Dark Mirror

Dark Mirror
ByBarton Gellman

2020 • 8 Readers • 704 pages

Deviant's War

Deviant's War
ByEric Cervini

2020 • 15 Readers • 512 pages 4.3

Dirt

Dirt
ByBill Buford

2020 • 36 Readers • 410 pages 4

Dolly Parton, Songteller

Dolly Parton, Songteller
ByDolly Parton,Robert K. Oermann

2020 • 45 Readers • 368 pages 3.8

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

2020 • 26 Readers 4.3

Galileo and the Science Deniers

2020 • 4 Readers • 304 pages 4

Ghosting the News

Ghosting the News
ByMargaret Sullivan

2020 • 6 Readers • 105 pages 4

His Truth Is Marching On

His Truth Is Marching On
ByJon Meacham,John Lewis

2020 • 17 Readers • 614 pages 4

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

2020 • 317 Readers • 289 pages 4.3

How the South Won the Civil War

How the South Won the Civil War
ByHeather Cox Richardson

2020 • 14 Readers • 272 pages 3.7

Humankind: A Hopeful History

2019 • 196 Readers • 498 pages 4.1

I You We Them : Volume 1

2020 • 3 Readers • 1,104 pages

Kleptopia

Kleptopia
ByTom Burgis

2021 • 21 Readers • 480 pages 3

Max Jacob

Max Jacob
ByRosanna Warren

2020 • 2 Readers • 720 pages

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

2020 • 114 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

Minor Feelings

Minor Feelings
ByCathy Park Hong

2020 • 151 Readers • 209 pages 4.1

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

2020 • 6 Readers • 384 pages

Pelosi

Pelosi
ByMolly Ball

2020 • 7 Readers • 336 pages

People, No

People, No
ByThomas Frank

2020 • 8 Readers • 224 pages 4

Rage

Rage
ByBob Woodward

2020 • 62 Readers • 475 pages 4

Rigged

Rigged
ByDavid Shimer

2020 • 6 Readers • 384 pages

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

2020 • 16 Readers • 352 pages 4

The Art of Her Deal

The Art of Her Deal
ByMary C. Jordan

2020 • 3 Readers • 352 pages 4

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

2021 • 85 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

The Big Goodbye

The Big Goodbye
BySam Wasson

2020 • 22 Readers • 416 pages 4.1

The Book of Eels

The Book of Eels
ByPatrik Svensson,Agnes Broomé(Translator)

2019 • 60 Readers • 256 pages 3.5

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

2020 • 42 Readers • 612 pages 4.7

The Man Who Ran Washington

The Man Who Ran Washington
ByPeter Baker,Susan Glasser

2020 • 5 Readers • 720 pages 4.5

The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking

2019 • 4 Readers • 256 pages 3

The Splendid and the Vile

2020 • 269 Readers • 546 pages 4.2

Too Much and Never Enough

2020 • 116 Readers • 225 pages 3.5

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

2020 • 57 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Valley
ByAnna Wiener

2020 • 194 Readers • 304 pages 4

Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living

2020 • 375 Readers • 9 pages 3.9

We Have Been Harmonized

We Have Been Harmonized
ByKai Strittmatter

2020 • 10 Readers • 368 pages 4.7

What It's Like to Be a Bird

What It's Like to Be a Bird
ByDavid Allen Sibley

2020 • 16 Readers • 240 pages 4

What Were We Thinking

What Were We Thinking
ByCarlos Lozada

2021 • 3 Readers • 272 pages 3

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

2020 • 279 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

2020 • 142 Readers • 319 pages 4

Wuhan Diary Dispatches from a Quarantined City

Wuhan Diary Dispatches from a Quarantined City
ByFang Fang,Michael Berry(Translator)

2020 • 10 Readers • 380 pages 3.5

You're Not Listening

2020 • 124 Readers • 278 pages 4.2