The lists for the best books of the year have started. Publishers Weekly's 2023 list contain a wide variety of books to choose from. Below are the nonfiction ones. There is a little bit of everything--histories, biographies, books about crime, sports, literature, science. There are a number of them that are on my to- read list. Are there any that you would add?
- America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel ebook
- August Wilson: A Life by Patti Hartigan
- The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths by Brad Fox
- Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA ;by Theresa Runstedtler
- Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir by Alice Carrière ebook
- Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It by Adia Harvey Wingfield
- The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper
- How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra
- How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
- Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell
- In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb by Tim Keogh
- An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America by Edwin Raymond, with John Sternfeld
- King: A Life by Jonathan Eig ebook
- The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa
- Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza
- Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
- The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial by David Lipsky ebook
- A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon
- Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System by Ryan J. Reilly
- Thin Skin: Essays by Jenn Shapland
- We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian
- What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman ebook
- When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey ebook
- Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles
- Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah Hazard