2024 NPR Non Fiction Staff Pick (32 books)

The NPR 2024 Nonfiction Staff Picks showcases 68 outstanding books across memoir, history, science, culture, and more. This diverse collection offers thought-provoking insights and inspiring stories, making it a must-read for curious minds.

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1	The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing by Adam Moss 4.21 avg rating — 579 ratings score: 169, and 2 people 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	A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri 3.92 avg rating — 738 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
3	Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances by Lucas Mann 3.86 avg rating — 94 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
4	Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier 3.97 avg rating — 14,135 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
5	Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher 3.95 avg rating — 15,159 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
6	The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years by Sunil Amrith 3.99 avg rating — 417 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
7	Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream 3.62 avg rating — 2,876 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
8	Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America by Paola Ramos 4.45 avg rating — 2,445 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
9	Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong 3.53 avg rating — 798 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
10	Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination by Sadie Dingfelder 4.11 avg rating — 803 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
11	Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 3,751 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
12	Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net by Jessica Calarco 4.17 avg rating — 1,006 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
13	How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev 4.10 avg rating — 1,511 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
14	In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 8,595 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
15	Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renee DiResta 4.07 avg rating — 807 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
16	Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 1,429 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
17	The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy by Rahul Bhatia 3.61 avg rating — 193 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
18	Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie 4.23 avg rating — 6,610 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
19	Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 43,454 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
20	The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 940 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
21	Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 1,302 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
22	The Showman by Simon Shuster 4.22 avg rating — 2,365 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
23	Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport 3.67 avg rating — 23,114 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
24	Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh 4.06 avg rating — 1,616 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
25	Sociopath by Patric Gagne 3.75 avg rating — 95,772 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
26	Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 2,767 ratings score: 76, 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
27	Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 35,440 ratings score: 75, 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
28	The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish Studies) by Marjorie Feld 4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings score: 74, 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
29	The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett 3.99 avg rating — 1,679 ratings score: 73, 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
30	Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 2,225 ratings score: 72, 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
31	War by Bob Woodward 4.23 avg rating — 12,598 ratings score: 71, 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
32	The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides 4.46 avg rating — 19,040 ratings score: 70, 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