Andrea's votes on the list Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Non-Fiction 2025

Listopia > Andrea's votes on the list Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Non-Fiction 2025 (50 Books)

1	Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company by Patrick McGee (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 10,447 ratings	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	Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice by Rachel Kolb 4.29 avg rating — 567 ratings	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	Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs 4.35 avg rating — 1,812 ratings	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	Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy by Tre Johnson 4.18 avg rating — 139 ratings	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	Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State by Caleb Gayle 3.92 avg rating — 313 ratings Andrea added it to to-read See Review	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	Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 1,340 ratings	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	Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida by Gilbert King 4.39 avg rating — 1,389 ratings	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	Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 7,254 ratings	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	Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus 4.21 avg rating — 747 ratings	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	Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI by John Cassidy 4.20 avg rating — 563 ratings	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	Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 1,398 ratings	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	Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life by Dan Nadel 4.31 avg rating — 728 ratings	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	Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt 3.94 avg rating — 2,001 ratings	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	Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel by Frances Wilson 3.71 avg rating — 208 ratings	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	Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery by Richard Kreitner 4.21 avg rating — 91 ratings	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	Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 23,002 ratings Andrea rated it 4 stars See Review	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 Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood by Matthew Specktor (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 358 ratings	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 Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir by Neko Case really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,376 ratings Andrea added it to to-read See Review	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	How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast 3.66 avg rating — 8,434 ratings	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	Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi 3.84 avg rating — 2,790 ratings Andrea added it to did-not-finish See Review	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	The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life by Graham Watson 4.17 avg rating — 313 ratings	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	I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally 3.86 avg rating — 9,695 ratings	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	Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 8,876 ratings Andrea rated it 5 stars See Review	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	Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 7,944 ratings	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	The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s by Paul Elie 3.82 avg rating — 97 ratings	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	Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China by Emily Feng 4.14 avg rating — 1,019 ratings	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	Libraries of the Mind by William Marx 3.52 avg rating — 42 ratings	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	Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Bridget Read (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 5,753 ratings	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	Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh by Robin Givhan 4.04 avg rating — 305 ratings	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	Mark Twain by Ron Chernow 4.17 avg rating — 8,022 ratings	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	Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 28,280 ratings Andrea rated it 3 stars See Review	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	Mexico: A 500-Year History by Paul Gillingham 4.01 avg rating — 425 ratings	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
33	The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century by Tim Weiner (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 1,648 ratings	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
34	Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly 3.83 avg rating — 4,761 ratings Andrea added it to to-read See Review	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
35	Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser 3.78 avg rating — 15,307 ratings	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
36	One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 77,275 ratings Andrea rated it 5 stars See Review	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
37	Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns: Thoughts on War by Artem Chapeye 4.58 avg rating — 787 ratings	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
38	Paris Undercover by Matthew Goodman 3.93 avg rating — 754 ratings	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
39	Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton 4.26 avg rating — 47,238 ratings Andrea added it to to-read See Review	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
40	Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by Amanda Hess 4.06 avg rating — 1,833 ratings	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
41	Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Leo Damrosch 4.16 avg rating — 96 ratings	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
42	Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America by Michael Luo 4.03 avg rating — 1,055 ratings	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
43	There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 10,308 ratings Andrea rated it 5 stars See Review	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
44	They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals by Mariah Blake (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 1,303 ratings	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
45	Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li 4.33 avg rating — 17,476 ratings Andrea rated it 5 stars See Review	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
46	A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews 3.82 avg rating — 4,247 ratings Andrea rated it 5 stars See Review	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
47	True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen by Lance Richardson (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 166 ratings	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
48	We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir by Brian Buckbee 3.55 avg rating — 733 ratings	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
49	We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore 4.22 avg rating — 2,623 ratings	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
50	Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet by Edward Luce 4.58 avg rating — 571 ratings	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