Booklist Queen's 2023 Reading Challenge - hosted by booklistqueen

Award Winning Nonfiction
Ranging from fact-based history to opinionated self-help (and fact-based self-help to opinionated history), pick up an award-winning nonfiction book and see what the hype is about.

Need suggestions? Here are some resources from my blog:
 
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

573 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction health history science informative slow-paced
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

The Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama

375 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging reflective slow-paced
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

Mark Adams

10 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous medium-paced
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No by John Townsend, Henry Cloud

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No

John Townsend, Henry Cloud

11 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring slow-paced
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

A Brief History Series #1

Yuval Noah Harari

15 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka

400 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

Russell Freedman

198 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction biography childrens history informative slow-paced
Angela's Ashes [Abridged] by Frank McCourt

Angela's Ashes [Abridged]

The Frank McCourt Memoirs #1

Frank McCourt

4 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark emotional funny sad medium-paced
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

227 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced