Top 12 Nonfiction Books – 2018

Collected via:

• Our 10 Best Books of 2018: From ‘Boom Town’ to ‘Douglass’ to ‘Overstory,’ seeing the big in everything – Chicago Tribune
• More Books We Loved in 2018 | The New Yorker
• The Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018 – WSJ
• Amazon Book Review
• Favourite Nonfiction of 2018 | Five Books Editors’ Recommendations
• The Best Books of 2018 | The New Yorker

1. “Feel Free” by Zadie Smith (Penguin, 464 pages, $28)
2. “This Land: America, Lost and Found” by Dan Barry (Black Dog & Leventhal, 400 pages, $29.95)
3. Just the Funny Parts … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys’ Club by Nell Scovell
4. “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World,” by Anand Giridharadas
5. “Essayism,” by Brian Dillon
6. “Small Fry,” by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
7. Why Art? by Eleanor Davis
8. Darwin Comes To Town: How The Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen
9. Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, And Progress by Steven Pinker
10. Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips
11. She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
12. Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom, by Erica Benner