Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Thank you so much for watching! What are your best nonfiction reads of the year?

Books mentioned:
Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild
Our Native Bees by Paige Embry
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara
Into Siberia by Gregory Wallance
Paradise Falls by Keith O’Brien
Flawless by Elise Hu
Flowers of Fire by Hawon Jung
The Forger’s Spell by Edward Dolnick
The Cost of Free Land by Rebecca Clarren
A Taste for Poison by Neil Bradbury
The Song of The Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
Barons by Austin Frerick
King by Jonathan Eig
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
While You Were Out by Meg Kissinger