Here are the best nonfiction books of 2024 (so far), presented in publication order. Watch this space for updates—we’ll continue adding to our list as the year progresses.

Read on to discover which non-fiction books from this past year are fortifying ... In 2019, she returned to Broadway where she won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in The Waverly Gallery.

Getting to read and reward this year’s best nonfiction, then ... and through those barricades at all costs.” This National Book Award winner is a bold and commendable feat of ethnography.

Read by Michael Beck and the authors. 13 hours, 55 minutes unabridged. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow. The last few titles on the list known as the ...

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Discover new worlds, voices, lives and ideas with 2024’s most exciting new non-fiction books. Sociopaths and gaslighting, love affairs and motherhood, burnout and how to solve it… In 2024, non ...

The St. Paul, Minnesota, writer had an astonishingly productive year, publishing four books aimed at various age groups. The best was her memoir of her mother, a companion to “The Song Poet ...

In the first of a two-part summer series, The Fin podcast talks to critics around the Financial Review newsroom to get their ...

Recommended by Jay Prosser, reader in humanities at the University of Leeds.

“For too long, the dreams of women have been demeaned and dismissed,’ writes Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of the Omega Institute, in her book, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are The ...

As has been my tradition, I present (in random order) a baker’s dozen of the best nonfiction of 2024, with an emphasis on books that have taught me things I didn’t know. I end with my pick for ...