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2023 In Review: My Favorite Nonfiction

Site logo image maphead posted: "Sorry this is a few days late but here's my list of my favorite nonfiction books I read in 2023. Almost all of these came from my local small town library or were Kindle editions borrowed through Overdrive. My Favorites of 2023 The Good Assassin: " Maphead's Book Blog

2023 In Review: My Favorite Nonfiction

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Jan 2

Sorry this is a few days late but here's my list of my favorite nonfiction books I read in 2023. Almost all of these came from my local small town library or were Kindle editions borrowed through Overdrive.

My Favorites of 2023

  • The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia by Stephan Talty (2020)
  • Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski (2023)
  • A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States by Steven Ujifusa (2012)
  • In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (2015)
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I by Richard Ned Lebow (2014)
  • How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter (2022)
  • Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder (2015)
  • I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger by Frank Wynne (2006)
  • Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz (2016)
  • On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein (2012)
  • The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman (2015)

Honorable Mentions

  • The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family by Josh Hanagarne (2013)
  • Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi (2008)
  • Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah (2019)
  • Lost Boy by Brent W. Jeffs with Maia Szalavitz (2009)
  • What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank (2004)
  • The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age by James Kirchick (2017)
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