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The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years - Page 2

Slate's list of the definitive nonfiction books written in English in the past quarter-century includes beautifully written memoirs but also books of reportage, collections of essays, travelogues, works of cultural criticism, passionate arguments, even a compendium of household tips. What they all share is a commitment to "mostly truth" and the belief that digging deep to find a real story—whether it's located in your memory, on dusty archive shelves, in Russian literature, in a slum in Mumbai—is a task worth undertaking.
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Citizen: An American Lyric (Claudia Rankine)
Citizen: An American Lyric
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Claudia Rankine
The Sixth Extinction (Elizabeth Kolbert)
The Sixth Extinction
42
Elizabeth Kolbert
Stuff Matters
Stuff Matters
43
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (William Finnegan)
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
44
William Finnegan
Dreamland (Sam Quinones)
Dreamland
45
Sam Quinones
H Is for Hawk (Helen MacDonald)
H Is for Hawk
46
Helen MacDonald
Negroland (Margo Jefferson)
Negroland
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Margo Jefferson
The Odd Woman and the City (Vivian Gornick)
The Odd Woman and the City
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How to Survive a Plague (David France)
How to Survive a Plague
49
David France
Lab Girl (Hope Jahren)
Lab Girl
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Hope Jahren
One Day (Gene Weingarten)
One Day
51
Gene Weingarten
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