Note: Books will be listed under all subgenres that apply.
Biography & History
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, & Shapshifters of the Feminine Persuasion | Tori Telfer |
Maus | Art Spiegelman |
Rikers: An Oral History | Reuven Blau & Graham Rayman |
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith | Jon Krakauer |
The Woman They Could Not Silence | Kate Moore |
Entertainment & Performing Arts
I’m Glad My Mom Died | Jennette McCurdy |
Tell Me Everything: A Memoir | Minka Kelly |
Essays
Cost of Living | Emily Maloney |
Greedy: Notes from A Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | Jen Winston |
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, & Crooks | Patrick Radden Keefe |
The World Record Book of Racist Stories | Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar |
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey | Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar |
Graphic Novels
The Best We Could Do | Thi Bui |
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story | Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case |
Maus | Art Spiegelman |
Humanities & Social Science
Humor
A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir | Colin Jost |
Hello, Molly!: A Memoir | Molly Shannon with Sean Wilsey |
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches | John Hodgman |
The World Record Book of Racist Stories | Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar |
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey | Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar |
Journalism
Literary Criticism
Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany | Jane Mount |
Medicine
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge & Back | Kevin Hazzard |
Cost of Living: Essays | Emily Maloney |
The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, A Murder, & An Unlikely Fight for Justice | Benjamin Gilmer |
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat | Aubrey Gordon |
The Woman They Could Not Silence | Kate Moore |
Memoir
Religion
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith | Jon Krakauer |
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots | Deborah Feldman |
Science & Technology
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road | Nick Bilton |
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou |