Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Best Nonfiction of 2024

[see also Best Novels of 2024 • Best Nonfiction of 2023 • 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

• The Message
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Alphabetical Diaries
  Sheila Heti
• Who’s Afraid of Gender?
  Judith Butler
• Woman of Interest

  A Memoir
  Tracy O'Neill
• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib

Additional Favorite Nonfiction Books

• A Map of Future Ruins

  On Borders and Belonging
  Lauren Markham
• Bone of the Bone

  Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
  Sarah Smarsh
• Consent

  A Memoir
  Jill Ciment
• Didion and Babitz
  Lili Anolik
• First Love

  Essays on Friendship
  Lilly Dancyger
• Frighten the Horses

  A Memoir
  Oliver Radclyffe
• I Heard Her Call My Name

  A Memoir of Transition
  Lucy Sante
• Lessons for Survival

  Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
  Emily Raboteau
• Memories of Distant Mountains

  Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022
  Orhan Pamuk
• Sex with a Brain Injury

  On Concussion and Recovery
  Annie Liontas
• Splinters
  Leslie Jamison
• Survival Is a Promise

  The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
  Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• Ten Bridges I've Burnt

  A Memoir in Verse
  Brontez Purnell
• The Long Run

  A Creative Inquiry
  Stacey D'Erasmo
• The Story Game
  Shze-Hui Tjoa
• This American Ex-Wife

  How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
  Lyz Lenz
• We're Alone

  Essays
  Edwidge Danticat
• Whiskey Tender

  A Memoir
  Deborah Jackson Taffa
• Wrong Is Not My Name

  Notes on (Black) Art
  Erica N. Cardwell
• You Get What You Pay For

  Essays
  Morgan Parker