Best Independent Creative Nonfiction (24 books)

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1	Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World's Oldest Drinking Culture by Derek Sandhaus (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 77 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Malibu Burning: The Real Story Behind LA's Most Devastating Wildfire by Robert Kerbeck (Goodreads Author) 4.51 avg rating — 115 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession by Cameron Dezen Hammon (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 231 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers: A Gallery of Memorable Southerners by Hal Crowther 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	America Deconstructed by Chaithanya Sohan (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Balance Point: A Missing Link in Human Consciousness by Joseph C. Jenkins 4.47 avg rating — 36 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	And There Was Evening and There Was Morning: Essays on Illness, Loss, and Love by Mike Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	I'll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphorisms by David Lazar (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport by Hannah S. Palmer (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 369 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Pittsburgh That Stays Within You by Samuel Hazo 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Sublime Physick: Essays by Patrick Madden (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Lost Wax: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.) by Jericho Parms 4.28 avg rating — 71 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	An Earlier Life by Brenda Miller 4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays by David Lazar (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine by Lee Gutkind (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 151 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	A Year of Days by Myrl Coulter (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book by Ted Kooser 4.54 avg rating — 185 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Only Sounds We Make by Lee Zacharias (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Driving Backwards by Jessica Lander (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles by Jeet Heer 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura 4.13 avg rating — 127 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Heaven by Emerson Whitney 4.13 avg rating — 550 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Lampblack Blue of Memory: My Mother Echoes by Sarah Adleman (Goodreads Author) 4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Slow Arrow: Unearthing The Frail Children by Kathryn Winograd (Goodreads Author) 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars