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.

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 ...

Why shouldn’t we become our best selves ... (Vex’s more recent 2023 book preempted 2024’s hot topic: manifestation). What’s so fascinating about non-fiction bestsellers is that ...

Tomlinson’s book works both as a wry, zinger-filled look at a world that’s not so far from “Best in Show,” the movie that parodied it, and that makes you cry with his insights into what ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...