Memoir / Autobiography / Character study:

• People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her, Richard Lloyd Parry
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”, Zora Neale Hurston
• Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon
• Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser
• The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Anne-Marie O'Connor
• The Descent of Man, Grayson Perry
• All The Truth is Out, Matt Bai
• The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster, Sarah Krasnostein
• The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore
• Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, Stephen L. Carter
• Assata: An Autobiography, Assata Shakur
• Eve: A Biography, Pamela Norris
• A Cup of Water Under My Bed, Daisy Hernández

Social justice:

• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
• Violence All Around, John Sifton
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, Michael J. Sandel
• Columbine, Dave Cullen
• Negroland, Margo Jefferson
• Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Jill Leovy
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, Rebecca Traister
• The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
• The Lines Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border, Francisco Cantú
• A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America, T. Christian Miller, Ken Armstrong
• Laramie Project, Moisés Kaufman & Tectonic Theater Project

History:

• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, Candice Millard
• Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, Peter Pomerantsev
• _Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 _, by Brandon Stosuy, Dennis Cooper, Eileen Myles
• The Library Book, Susan Orlean
• A History of Bombing, Sven Lindqvist tr. by Linda Haverty Rugg
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou
• Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, Hunter S. Thompson
• The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, Radley Balko
• The Library Book, Susan Orlean

Misc:

• The Fall of Language in the Age of English, Minae Mizumura
• Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, David Shields
• Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World, Anne Jamison