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2020 Books

Time: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020

21 November 2020

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

Time Magazine: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020

[see also The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 • The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 • Best Books of 2018 • Top 20 Books of 2017]

  1. Caste
    The Origins of Our Discontents
    Isabel Wilkerson
  2. Minor Feelings
    An Asian American Reckoning
    Cathy Park Hong
  3. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
    Wayétu Moore
  4. Memorial Drive
    A Daughter's Memoir
    Natasha Trethewey
  5. The Dead Are Arising
    The Life of Malcolm X
    Les Payne and Tamara Payne
  6. Vesper Flights
    Helen Macdonald
  7. The Undocumented Americans
    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
  8. Having and Being Had
    Eula Biss
  9. Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
    Volker Ullrich
  10. Just Us
    An American Conversation
    Claudia Rankine

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