Best Nonfiction of 2022 - Voting Thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/zqmkqz/best_nonfiction_of_2022_voting_thread/

created by vincoug on 20/12/2022 at 12:00 UTC

25 upvotes, 21 top-level comments (showing 21)

Welcome readers!

This is the voting thread for the best Nonfiction of 2022! From here you can make nominations, vote, and discuss the best Nonfiction of 2022. 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 2022.

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 17 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 2022 Lists

To remind you of some of the great books that were published this year, here's the /r/Books' Megalist of Best of 2022 Lists

Comments

Comment by dobeel123 at 20/12/2022 at 12:22 UTC

77 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy

Comment by walliewasright42o at 20/12/2022 at 12:56 UTC

9 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman

Comment by QueenRooibos at 20/12/2022 at 23:40 UTC

8 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention -- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

Comment by WarpedLucy at 20/12/2022 at 18:17 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

*Freezing Order, by Bill Browder**

When Bill Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discover that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.

As law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. Putin will stop at nothing to protect his money. As Freezing Order reveals, it was Browder’s campaign to expose Putin’s corruption that prompted Russia’s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.

At once a financial caper, an international adventure, and a passionate plea for justice, Freezing Order is a stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most ruthless villains in the world—and win.

Comment by ithsoc at 20/12/2022 at 22:24 UTC

6 upvotes, 0 direct replies

*The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power, by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad**

Comment by ithsoc at 20/12/2022 at 22:23 UTC

6 upvotes, 0 direct replies

*Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States, by Reece Jones**

Comment by plaidtattoos at 20/12/2022 at 22:24 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss - Amy Bloom.

"Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer's disease.

Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace."

Comment by rendyanthony at 25/12/2022 at 09:09 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Comment by stumbling_disaster at 21/12/2022 at 04:25 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

Comment by panini3fromages at 20/12/2022 at 13:20 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard* by **Bo Seo**

Comment by ilysespieces at 20/12/2022 at 23:29 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America by Michael Benson

Comment by [deleted] at 21/12/2022 at 16:11 UTC*

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

*Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas** *by Jennifer Raff*

Origin is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. Origin provides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution.

Comment by book0saurus at 03/01/2023 at 01:33 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes

Comment by WarpedLucy at 20/12/2022 at 18:16 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

*Ten Steps To Nanette, by Hannah Gadsby**

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us through the defining moments in her life that led to the creation of Nanette and her powerful decision to tell the truth-no matter the cost.

'There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.' -Hannah Gadsby, Nanette

Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. But while her worldwide fame might have looked like an overnight sensation, her path from open mic to the global stage was hard-fought and anything but linear.

Ten Steps to Nanette traces Gadsby's growth as a queer person from Tasmania-where homosexuality was illegal until 1997-to her ever-evolving relationship with comedy, to her struggle with late-in-life diagnoses of autism and ADHD, and finally to the backbone of Nanette - the renouncement of self-deprecation, the rejection of misogyny, and the moral significance of truth-telling.

Equal parts harrowing and hilarious, Ten Steps to Nanette continues Gadsby's tradition of confounding expectations and norms, properly introducing us to one of the most explosive, formative voices of our time.

Comment by RedHerring07 at 20/12/2022 at 13:12 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley

Comment by violetmemphisblue at 20/12/2022 at 23:54 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The White Mosque, by Sofia Samatar. Its part travel/part history/part memoir. In the 1800s, a group of Mennonites who believed they knew when the End Times would begin went to Central Asia to build a settlement. In 2016, the author, who was raised Mennonite, goes on a guided tour tracing their steps. She reflects on the group, their legacy, and her own place in the Mennonite faith/culture as the daughter of a woman descending from early American Mennonites and a father who was a Mennonite convert from Somalia...

Comment by fineryandsmoothies at 21/12/2022 at 02:00 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery