Electric Lit’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020

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Electric Lit’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020

We polled current and former Electric Lit staff and contributors about their favorite nonfiction books of the year. Read more on Electric Literature.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

$27.00

$25.11

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

Samantha Irby

$15.95

$14.83

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

Jenn Shapland

$22.95

$21.34

Tomboyland: Essays

Melissa Faliveno

$14.95

$13.90

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

Elisa Gabbert

$17.00

$15.81

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Natasha Trethewey

$27.99

$26.03

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Anna Wiener

$27.00

$25.11

The Sprawl

Jason Diamond

$16.95

$15.76

Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

Paul Lisicky

$16.00

$14.88

I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays

Michael Arceneaux

$17.00

$15.81

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

$26.00

$24.18

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

Isabel Wilkerson

$32.00

$29.76

Born to Be Public

Greg Mania

$16.95

$15.76

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

Angela Chen

$26.95

$25.06