Electric Lit’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020

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Electric Lit’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020

We asked Electric Literature staff and contributors to vote for their favorite books of the year 2020, and here are their 20 top picks for essays, memoirs, and reporting. Read more on our site.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

$27.00

$24.84

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

Samantha Irby

$15.95

$14.67

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

Jenn Shapland

$22.95

$21.11

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in...

Emma Copley Eisenberg

$27.00

$24.84

Tomboyland: Essays

Melissa Faliveno

$14.95

$13.75

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

Elisa Gabbert

$16.00

$14.72

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Natasha Trethewey

$27.99

$25.75

Riding with the Ghost: A Memoir

Justin Taylor

$27.00

$24.84

Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to...

Courtney Maum

$16.95

$15.59

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Anna Wiener

$27.00

$24.84

The Sprawl

Jason Diamond

$16.95

$15.59

Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White...

Seyward Darby

$28.00

$25.76

Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

Paul Lisicky

$16.00

$14.72

I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays

Michael Arceneaux

$17.00

$15.64

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

$26.00

$23.92

Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays

R. Eric Thomas

$26.00

$23.92

Fairest: A Memoir

Meredith Talusan

$27.00

$24.84

Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

$32.00

$29.44

Born to Be Public

Greg Mania

$26.95

$24.79

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the...

Angela Chen

$26.95

$24.79