As I detailed in my 2021 Reading – By the Numbers post, my nonfiction reads last year were pretty evenly divided between memoir and what, for a better term, I’m calling general nonfiction. My first encounter with almost all of these books was auditory, and a surprising number of them were ones I just came upon while scrolling for audiobooks that were “available now” on my Libby app. Here are the eleven that garnered five stars from me on Goodreads!

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe i...