I'm off the board this week with my Top Ten Tuesday topic:
Best Nonfiction Books I've Read In Each of the Last Ten Years
Today is the first day of Nonfiction November so I decided to list some of my favorite nonfiction books from the last ten years.
2021 (so far):
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (published in 2021)
2020:
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (c. 2016)
2019:
Becoming by Michelle Obama (c. 2018)
2018:
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (c. 2017)
2017:
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (c. 2016)
2016:
West With the Night by Beryl Markham (c. 1942)
2015:
The History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage (c. 2006)
2014:
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (c. 2013)
2013:
Unbroken: A World War Two Story of Survival, Resistance, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (c.2010)
2012:
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin (c. 2008)
I challenge you to look back on your nonfiction selections from the past decade. What were some of your favorites?
-Anne
