The Best Nonfiction Books of 2024
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
Bloomberg, 14 Books
In an outstanding year for serious nonfiction, these writers excelled at shedding light on complex and underexplored topics.
Selected by Stephen L. Carter, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”
First book ranked, rest unranked
This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10380 | Nuclear War | Annie Jacobsen | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 14986 | The Invention Of Prehistory | Stefanos Geroulanos | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | Combee | Edda L. Fields-Black | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | The Right To Oblivion | Lowry Pressly | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | Silk | Aarathi Prasad | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | Naples 1925 | Martin Mittelmeier | 2024 | Unknown | German | |
| 17168 | Life As No One Knows It | Sara Imari Walker | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | Four Points Of The Compass | Jerry Brotton | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | The Notebook | Roland Allen | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | Why Machines Learn | Anil Ananthaswamy | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10587 | The Rebel's Clinic | Adam Shatz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | Savings And Trust | Justene Hill Edwards | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | The Roads To Rome | Catherine Fletcher | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17168 | Cosmic Connections | Charles Taylor | 2024 | Unknown | English |