Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Best Nonfiction of 2023

[see also Best Novels of 2023 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022 • Favorite Novels of 2022 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 • Favorite Novels of 2021 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 • Favorite Novels of 2020 • 15 Best Novels of 2019 • 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

The Top 5 Nonfiction Books of The Year

• A Living Remedy
  Nicole Chung
• Monsters

  A Fan's Dilemma
  Claire Dederer
• Hijab Butch Blues
  Lamya H.
• You Could Make This Place Beautiful

  A Memoir
  Maggie Smith
• Quietly Hostile

  Essays
  Samantha Irby

Other Favorite Nonfiction Books

• Sink
  Joseph Earl Thomas
• The Book of (More) Delights

  Essays
  Ross Gay
• The Heartbreak Years

  A Memoir
  Minda Honey
• Pageboy
  Elliot Page
• Ordinary Notes
  Christina Sharpe
• Dyscalculia

  A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
  Camonghne Felix
• bell hooks: The Last Interview

  and Other Conversations
  bell hooks
• A Man of Two Faces

  a Memoir, a History, a Memorial
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Liliana's Invincible Summer

  A Sister's Search for Justice
  Cristina Rivera Garza
• The Loneliness Files

  A Memoir in Essays
  Athena Dixon
• Black Women Writers at Work
  Claudia Tate (editor)
• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein
• Palo Alto

  A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
  Malcolm Harris
• The In-Betweens

  A Lyrical Memoir
  Davon Loeb
• When Crack Was King

  A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
  Donovan X. Ramsey
• All the Gold Stars

  Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
  Rainesford Stauffer
• Saving Time

  Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
  Jenny Odell
• Tabula Rasa

  Volume 1
  John McPhee
• A Life of One's Own

  Nine Women Writers Begin Again
  Joanna Biggs
• Eyeliner

  A Cultural History
  Zahra Hankir