The 20 Best Non Fiction of the Decade (2010s)

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Literary Hub, 26 Books

The 20 Best Non Fiction of the Decade (2010-2019) chosen by the Literary Hub staff.
Total came to 26 as they also had some dissenting opinions - those are left unranked.

This list was originally published in 2019 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1699 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 2010 American English
1969 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
1816 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 2010 American English
5589 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
908 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
2518 The Passage Of Power Robert Caro 2012 American English
6489 The Black Count Tom Reiss 2012 French English
1843 The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 American English
1207 Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 American English
6582 The Invention Of Nature Andrea Wulf 2015 German English
11286 The Witches Stacy Schiff 2015 American English
1024 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
4939 Dark Money Jane Mayer 2016 American English
8860 How To Survive A Plague David France 2016 American English
11489 The Other Slavery Andrés Reséndez 2016 American English
11495 All The Single Ladies Rebecca Traister 2016 American English
5797 Prairie Fires Caroline Fraser 2017 American English
2985 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight 2018 American English
8473 Underland Robert Macfarlane 2019 British English
1990 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 American English
10909 The Art Of Cruelty Maggie Nelson 2011 American English
6639 The Beast Óscar Martínez 2013 Salvadoran Spanish
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
11821 The House Of Government Yuri Slezkine 2017 American English
11821 Ghosts Of The Tsunami Richard Lloyd Parry 2017 British English
8058 How To Do Nothing Jenny Odell 2019 American English