Best Nonfiction of 2024 - Voting Thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1he2do3/best_nonfiction_of_2024_voting_thread/

created by vincoug on 14/12/2024 at 13:01 UTC

12 upvotes, 42 top-level comments (showing 25)

Welcome readers!

This is the voting thread for the best Nonfiction of 2024! From here you can make nominations, vote, and discuss the best Nonfiction of 2024. Here are the rules:

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Nominations

Nominations are made by posting a parent comment.

Parent comments will only be nominations. If you're not making a nomination you must reply to another comment or your comment will be removed.

All nominations must have been originally published in 2024.

Please search the thread before making your own nomination. Duplicate nominations will be removed.

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Voting

Voting will be done using upvotes.

You can vote for as many books as you'd like.

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Other Stuff

Nominations will be left open until Sunday January 19 at which point they will be locked, votes counted, and winners announced.

These threads will be left in contest mode until voting is finished.

Most importantly, have fun!

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Best of 2024 Lists

To remind you of some of the great books that were published this year, here's the /r/Books' Megalist of Best of 2024 Lists

Comments

Comment by MartagonofAmazonLily at 15/12/2024 at 19:36 UTC

20 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Nuclear War by Annie Jacobson

Comment by marmeemarmee at 14/12/2024 at 22:35 UTC

33 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Comment by travistnATL at 15/12/2024 at 19:20 UTC

14 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson

Comment by caughtinfire at 15/12/2024 at 04:04 UTC

24 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Challenger* by Adam Higginbotham

Comment by 15volt at 14/12/2024 at 13:05 UTC

15 upvotes, 0 direct replies

On Freedom* --Timothy Snyder

Comment by smockinCBJ at 15/12/2024 at 02:48 UTC

9 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The Wide, Wide Seas by Hampton Sides

Comment by EveryFngNameIsTaken at 15/12/2024 at 12:07 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The Small and The Mighty by Sharon McMahon.

Comment by jazzynoise at 16/12/2024 at 01:59 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,* Salman Rushdie.

Comment by missiontodenmark at 29/12/2024 at 04:33 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics* by Elle Reeve

Comment by Merle8888 at 05/01/2025 at 06:01 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

Comment by 2whitie at 16/12/2024 at 02:09 UTC

8 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

Comment by 15volt at 14/12/2024 at 13:50 UTC

14 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World* --Anne Applebaum

Comment by BlancheDeveraux44 at 17/12/2024 at 14:43 UTC

7 upvotes, 0 direct replies

There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

Comment by Adnan_Targaryen at 15/12/2024 at 18:06 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

Comment by Comprehensive-Fun47 at 15/12/2024 at 18:34 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Grey Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery, by Theodore H. Schwartz

Comment by DogFun2635 at 15/12/2024 at 16:08 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Paris 44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop

Comment by speech-geek at 17/12/2024 at 17:30 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness by Andy McCullough

Comment by acgold at 18/12/2024 at 04:16 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

Comment by bballdeo at 23/12/2024 at 07:41 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum

Comment by pauseforpeep at 23/12/2024 at 10:53 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth - Richard Esposito

Comment by Merle8888 at 05/01/2025 at 05:58 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

Comment by YakSlothLemon at 14/12/2024 at 16:25 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Chernobyl Roulette: War in a Nuclear Disaster Zone by Serhii Plokhy

Comment by YakSlothLemon at 14/12/2024 at 16:26 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World* by Andrea di Robilant