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
1701 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 2010 American English
1974 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
1817 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 2010 American English
5598 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
909 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
2523 The Passage Of Power Robert Caro 2012 American English
6500 The Black Count Tom Reiss 2012 French English
1844 The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 American English
1209 Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 American English
6596 The Invention Of Nature Andrea Wulf 2015 German English
11317 The Witches Stacy Schiff 2015 American English
1027 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
4949 Dark Money Jane Mayer 2016 American English
8876 How To Survive A Plague David France 2016 American English
11515 The Other Slavery Andrés Reséndez 2016 American English
11521 All The Single Ladies Rebecca Traister 2016 American English
5808 Prairie Fires Caroline Fraser 2017 American English
2992 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight 2018 American English
8492 Underland Robert Macfarlane 2019 British English
1995 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 American English
10939 The Art Of Cruelty Maggie Nelson 2011 American English
6653 The Beast Óscar Martínez 2013 Salvadoran Spanish
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
11846 The House Of Government Yuri Slezkine 2017 American English
11846 Ghosts Of The Tsunami Richard Lloyd Parry 2017 British English
8073 How To Do Nothing Jenny Odell 2019 American English