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) 4.50 avg rating — 6,202 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 4.40 avg rating — 224 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 4.39 avg rating — 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
4	Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy by Tre Johnson 4.26 avg rating — 101 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 4.04 avg rating — 174 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
6	Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 318 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 4.44 avg rating — 558 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) 4.33 avg rating — 1,811 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 — 453 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 4.19 avg rating — 324 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) 4.43 avg rating — 677 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 (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 529 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 4.05 avg rating — 881 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 3.72 avg rating — 100 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 4.22 avg rating — 50 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) 3.95 avg rating — 9,095 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
17	The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood – A Best Book of the Year Blending Intimate Memoir with Narrative History of Art and Business in Cinema by Matthew Specktor (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 288 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 4.01 avg rating — 6,152 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 3.70 avg rating — 6,539 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 3.93 avg rating — 575 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
21	The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life by Graham Watson 3.98 avg rating — 58 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 3.89 avg rating — 6,348 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) 4.22 avg rating — 4,468 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: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 3,784 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 3.72 avg rating — 58 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 4.16 avg rating — 638 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 — 27 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) 4.02 avg rating — 3,506 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 4.09 avg rating — 217 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 4.20 avg rating — 5,271 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) 4.30 avg rating — 22,535 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 4.16 avg rating — 49 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) 4.11 avg rating — 918 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 3.86 avg rating — 3,301 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 3.81 avg rating — 8,939 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) 4.61 avg rating — 36,863 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 4.68 avg rating — 310 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 4.08 avg rating — 479 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 4.37 avg rating — 21,386 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 4.13 avg rating — 1,344 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 4.41 avg rating — 39 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 4.09 avg rating — 617 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) 4.63 avg rating — 3,781 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
44	They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals by Mariah Blake (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 738 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 4.38 avg rating — 6,011 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 3.89 avg rating — 2,304 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) 4.50 avg rating — 70 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 3.63 avg rating — 441 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 4.31 avg rating — 894 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 — 346 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