I have descended even further into becoming a non-fiction fan this past year. Here are some of my favorites. Again, if your favorite is not on here it is because 1) It was not a favorite of mine. or 2) I haven't read it yet.
Memoir/Biographies
Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxane Gay
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
This is Just My Face, Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidebe
Essay collections/Opinion type books
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by various authors (edited by Kelly Jensen)
One Day We'll All be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
All the Lives I Want by Alana Massey
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
Wolf Whistle Politics: The New Misogyny in Public Life Today by various authors (edited by Naomi Wolf)
History/everything else:
Never Caught: The Washinton's Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (apparently this counts as non-fiction as everyone puts it in the non-fiction section...I find that weird as it's clearly retold mythology fiction...but whatever)
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker (poetry collection)
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
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