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Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2017

Here is a list of Kurkus Review's best nonfiction of the year 2017. How many of these have you read?
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon (Henry Marsh)
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
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Henry Marsh
Ali: A Life (Jonathan Eig)
Ali: A Life
2
Jonathan Eig
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Elisabeth Rosenthal)
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
3
Elisabeth Rosenthal
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (Daniel Mendelsohn)
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
4
Daniel Mendelsohn
Anatomy of Terror (Ali H. Soufan)
Anatomy of Terror
5
Ali H. Soufan
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil Degrasse Tyson)
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
6
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America (Nathaniel Frank)
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America
7
Nathaniel Frank
The Black Hand (Stephan Talty)
The Black Hand
8
Stephan Talty
Blitzed (Norman Ohler)
Blitzed
9
Norman Ohler
Bones (Joe Tone)
Bones
10
Joe Tone
Border (Kapka Kassabova)
Border
11
Kapka Kassabova
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years, 1898-1940 (Jed Perl)
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years, 1898-1940
12
Jed Perl
China Lake (Barret Baumgart)
China Lake
13
Barret Baumgart
Chocolate City (Chris Myers Asch)
Chocolate City
14
Chris Myers Asch
Chokehold: Policing Black Men (Paul Butler)
Chokehold: Policing Black Men
15
Paul Butler
Churchill and Orwell (Ricks)
Churchill and Orwell
16
Ricks
Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science (Peter Watson)
Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science
17
Peter Watson
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South (Michael W.Twitty)
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South
18
Michael W.Twitty
A Crack in Creation (Jennifer A. Doudna)
A Crack in Creation
19
Jennifer A. Doudna
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LBGT Music (Darryl W.Bullock)
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LBGT Music
20
Darryl W.Bullock
Dying : A Memoir (Cory Taylor)
Dying : A Memoir
21
Cory Taylor
The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution (Jack Shenker)
The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
22
Jack Shenker
The Empire Must Die (Mikhail Zygar)
The Empire Must Die
23
Mikhail Zygar
The Evangelicals (Frances Fitzgerald)
The Evangelicals
24
Frances Fitzgerald
Everything Is Flammable (Gabrielle Bell)
Everything Is Flammable
25
Gabrielle Bell
The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World (Jonathan Israel)
The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World
26
Jonathan Israel
Expecting Sunshine (Alexis Marie Chute)
Expecting Sunshine
27
Alexis Marie Chute
Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings (James Crawford)
Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
28
James Crawford
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Kim Phillips-Fein)
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
29
Kim Phillips-Fein
Freud: The Making of an Illusion (Frederick Crews)
Freud: The Making of an Illusion
30
Frederick Crews
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Masha Gessen)
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
31
Masha Gessen
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (Rüdiger Safranski)
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
32
Rüdiger Safranski
Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love (Zack Mcdermott)
Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
33
Zack Mcdermott
The Great Unknown (Marcus Du Sautoy)
The Great Unknown
34
Marcus Du Sautoy
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City From 1898 to 1919 (Mike Wallace)
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City From 1898 to 1919
35
Mike Wallace
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (Jack E. Davis)
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
36
Jack E. Davis
Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart (Scott Eyman)
Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
37
Scott Eyman
He Calls Me by Lightning (S. Jonathan Bass)
He Calls Me by Lightning
38
S. Jonathan Bass
Henry David Thoreau - A Life (Laura Dassow Walls)
Henry David Thoreau - A Life
39
Laura Dassow Walls
The Holocaust: A New History (Laurence Rees)
The Holocaust: A New History
40
Laurence Rees
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