2020 Nonfiction Favorites - a podcast by Book Riot

This week Alice and Kim talk favorite nonfiction reads of 2020.

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Favorite Nonfiction of 2020Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach

Why We Swim by Bonnie TsuiHidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robery Kolker

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann FriedmanThe Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Shit, Actually by Lindy WestWe Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half-Century of Silence by Becky Cooper

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan JerkinsDisability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century ed. By Alice Wong

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey GordonNonfiction We Missed in 2020

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee NezhukumatathilMemorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

The Fixed Stars by Molly WizenbergVesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

Reading NowKIM: The Devil’s Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley by Jessica Garrison

ALICE: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna ClarkeCONCLUSION

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