The Best Nonfiction Books of 2024

The best nonfiction books of 2024 are the titles most recommended across the year's most credible lists, ranked here by our transparent Consensus Score.

The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Wild Thing
Sue Prideaux
Reagan
Max Boot
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
The Longevity Imperative
Andrew J. Scott
How the World Made the West
Josephine Quinn
Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
Maurice and Maralyn
Sophie Elmhirst
The Genetic Book of the Dead
Richard Dawkins
Twelve Trees
Daniel Lewis
Patriot
Alexei Navalny
Every Living Thing
Jason Roberts
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
The Art of Uncertainty
David Spiegelhalter
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
Impossible Monsters
Michael Taylor
Question 7
Richard Flanagan
The Rigor of Angels
William Egginton
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
William Ury
Age of Revolutions
Fareed Zakaria
The Demon of Unrest
Erik Larson
An Unfinished Love Story
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
Cold Crematorium
József Debreczeni
I Heard Her Call My Name
Lucy Sante
Gray Matters
Theodore H. Schwartz
Cue the Sun!
Emily Nussbaum
Revolusi
David Van Reybrouck
Medieval Horizons
Ian Mortimer
Autocracy, Inc.
Anne Applebaum
The Book-Makers
Adam Smyth
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
The Eastern Front
Nick Lloyd
Smoke and Ashes
Amitav Ghosh
The Year of Living Constitutionally
A.J. Jacobs
The Catalyst
Thomas R. Cech
The Achilles Trap
Steve Coll
The Editor
Sara B. Franklin
Metamorphoses
Karolina Watroba
One Way Back
Christine Blasey Ford
Troubled
Rob Henderson
Get the Picture
Bianca Bosker
Gobsmacked!
Ben Yagoda
The Haunted Wood
Sam Leith
Origin Uncertain
Anatoly Liberman
Stranger Than Fiction
Edwin Frank
Written in Water
Rochelle Gurstein
The Forbidden Garden
Simon Parkin
The Horse
Timothy C. Winegard
The Invention of Good and Evil
Hanno Sauer
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
David Chaffetz
Spycraft
Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman
The Siege
Ben Macintyre
Venice
Dennis Romano
Why War?
Richard Overy
Born to Rule
Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman
Counter-Intelligence
Robert Hannigan
Failed State
Sam Freedman
How Tyrants Fall
Marcel Dirsus
Infantilised
Keith J. Hayward
Our Enemies Will Vanish
Yaroslav Trofimov
Twenty Years
Sune Engel Rasmussen
World on the Brink
Dmitri Alperovitch
More and More and More
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Origin Story
Howard Markel
Reentry
Eric Berger
Tits Up
Sarah Thornton
The Underworld
Susan Casey
The Abiy Project
Tom Gardner
At the Louvre
Antoine Caro
Heresy
Catherine Nixey
New Answers to Old Questions
Aaron Connelly
Charlie Hustle
Keith O'Brien
Countdown
Sarah Scoles
A Day in September
Stephen Budiansky
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Vows
Cheryl Mendelson
A Voyage Around the Queen
Craig Brown
Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik
The Strangers
Ekow Eshun
The Rebel's Clinic
Adam Shatz
Hardy Women
Paula Byrne
My Family: The Memoir
David Baddiel
My Family and Other Rock Stars
Tiffany Murray
Nightshade Mother
Gwyneth Lewis
Something Lost, Something Gained
Hillary Clinton
Citizen
Bill Clinton
The Art of Power
Nancy Pelosi
A Woman Like Me
Diane Abbott
We Will Not Be Saved
Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Sonny Boy
Al Pacino
Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Cher
A Thousand Threads
Neneh Cherry
You're Embarrassing Yourself
Desiree Akhavan
A City on Mars
Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
Everything Is Predictable
Tom Chivers
The Elements of Marie Curie
Dava Sobel
The Impossible Man
Patchen Barss
The Last of Its Kind
Gisli Palsson
The Story of a Heart
Rachel Clarke
Your Face Belongs to Us
Kashmir Hill
The Secret Public
Jon Savage
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer
Ian Wade
Street-Level Superstar
Will Hodgkinson
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe
Vivien Goldman
Hip-Hop Is History
Questlove
Cypria
Alex Christofi
Why Animals Talk
Arik Kershenbaum
Rat City
Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden
Sociopath
Patric Gagne
Rumbles
Elsa Richardson
Everything to Play For
Marijam Did
An Amerikan Family
Santi Elijah Holley
Chasing Hope
Nicholas D. Kristof
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
M. K. Asante
Playing from the Rough
Jimmie James
Trace
Jenny Holzer
Walk Through Fire
Sheila Johnson
Good Energy
Casey Means
My Father's Brain
Sandeep Jauhar
Lifespan
David A. Sinclair
Outlive
Peter Attia
Unwell Women
Elinor Cleghorn
Why We Remember
Charan Ranganath
Culture: The Story of Us
Martin Puchner
Eyeliner: A Cultural History
Zahra Hankir
The Five
Hallie Rubenhold
The Game
Jon Pessah
One Fine Day
Matthew Parker
Painting for Profit
Richard E. Spear and Philip Sohm
The Radium Girls
Kate Moore
Religion and the Decline of Magic
Keith Thomas
The Art of Explanation
Ros Atkins
Don't Believe Everything You Think
Joseph Nguyen
Homecoming
John Bradshaw
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
Says Who?
Anne Curzan
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott
To My Sisters
Renee Kapuku and Courtney Daniella Boateng
What I Know for Sure
Oprah Winfrey
Eat the Buddha
Barbara Demick
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger
Ours Was the Shining Future
David Leonhardt
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison
Jason Rezaian
Whatever It Is, I'm Against It
Brian Rosenberg
Blue Machine
Helen Czerski
Children of a Modest Star
Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
God, Human, Animal, Machine
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Ideas That Created the Future
Harry R. Lewis
Inventor of the Future
Alec Nevala-Lee
The Singularity Is Nearer
Ray Kurzweil
The Burning Earth
Sunil Amrith
The City Is Up for Grabs
Gregory Royal Pratt
The Heat Will Kill You First
Jeff Goodell
How Not to Age
Michael Greger
Flavorama
Arielle Johnson
ADHD for Smart Ass Women
Tracy Otsuka
Music and Mind
Renee Fleming
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
Natasha Tidd
Up Home
Ruth Simmons
Horse Barbie
Geena Rocero
How to Know a Person
David Brooks
Much Ado About Numbers
Rob Eastaway
Non Me la Bevo
Michele Fino
The Highest Calling
David Rubenstein
The Rising
Larry Silverstein
The Golden Road
William Dalrymple
Doppelganger
Naomi Klein
Les Rebelles Magnifiques
Andrea Wulf
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
Phaidon
Love & Whiskey
Fawn Weaver
Secret Stays
Melinda Stevens, Issy von Simson, and Tabitha Joyce
The Worth of Water
Gary White and Matt Damon
Engineering in Plain Sight
Grady Hillhouse
Federer
Doris Henkel

The New York Times — The 10 Best Books of 2024

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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
Reagan
Max Boot
Cold Crematorium
József Debreczeni
I Heard Her Call My Name
Lucy Sante
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides

The Economist — The Economist's Books of the Year 2024

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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Gray Matters
Theodore H. Schwartz
Cue the Sun!
Emily Nussbaum
Revolusi
David Van Reybrouck
How the World Made the West
Josephine Quinn
Medieval Horizons
Ian Mortimer
Autocracy, Inc.
Anne Applebaum
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
Patriot
Alexei Navalny
The Book-Makers
Adam Smyth
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Every Living Thing
Jason Roberts
The Eastern Front
Nick Lloyd
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
Reagan
Max Boot
Smoke and Ashes
Amitav Ghosh
The Year of Living Constitutionally
A.J. Jacobs
The Catalyst
Thomas R. Cech
The Achilles Trap
Steve Coll
The Editor
Sara B. Franklin
Maurice and Maralyn
Sophie Elmhirst
Metamorphoses
Karolina Watroba
One Way Back
Christine Blasey Ford
Troubled
Rob Henderson
Wild Thing
Sue Prideaux
The Art of Uncertainty
David Spiegelhalter
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
Get the Picture
Bianca Bosker
Gobsmacked!
Ben Yagoda
The Haunted Wood
Sam Leith
Origin Uncertain
Anatoly Liberman
Stranger Than Fiction
Edwin Frank
Written in Water
Rochelle Gurstein
The Forbidden Garden
Simon Parkin
The Horse
Timothy C. Winegard
Impossible Monsters
Michael Taylor
The Invention of Good and Evil
Hanno Sauer
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
David Chaffetz
Spycraft
Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman
The Siege
Ben Macintyre
Venice
Dennis Romano
Why War?
Richard Overy
Born to Rule
Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman
Counter-Intelligence
Robert Hannigan
Failed State
Sam Freedman
How Tyrants Fall
Marcel Dirsus
Infantilised
Keith J. Hayward
Our Enemies Will Vanish
Yaroslav Trofimov
Twenty Years
Sune Engel Rasmussen
World on the Brink
Dmitri Alperovitch
The Genetic Book of the Dead
Richard Dawkins
More and More and More
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Origin Story
Howard Markel
Reentry
Eric Berger
Tits Up
Sarah Thornton
Twelve Trees
Daniel Lewis
The Underworld
Susan Casey
The Abiy Project
Tom Gardner
At the Louvre
Antoine Caro
Heresy
Catherine Nixey
New Answers to Old Questions
Aaron Connelly

Financial Times — FT Business Book of the Year 2024

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The Longevity Imperative
Andrew J. Scott

The Wall Street Journal — The Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2024

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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Charlie Hustle
Keith O'Brien
Countdown
Sarah Scoles
A Day in September
Stephen Budiansky
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Vows
Cheryl Mendelson

The Guardian — The Best Fiction of 2024

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A Voyage Around the Queen
Craig Brown
Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik
The Strangers
Ekow Eshun
The Rebel's Clinic
Adam Shatz
Hardy Women
Paula Byrne
Wild Thing
Sue Prideaux
Maurice and Maralyn
Sophie Elmhirst
My Family: The Memoir
David Baddiel
My Family and Other Rock Stars
Tiffany Murray
Nightshade Mother
Gwyneth Lewis
Something Lost, Something Gained
Hillary Clinton
Citizen
Bill Clinton
The Art of Power
Nancy Pelosi
A Woman Like Me
Diane Abbott
We Will Not Be Saved
Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Question 7
Richard Flanagan
Sonny Boy
Al Pacino
Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Cher
A Thousand Threads
Neneh Cherry
You're Embarrassing Yourself
Desiree Akhavan
A City on Mars
Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
Everything Is Predictable
Tom Chivers
The Elements of Marie Curie
Dava Sobel
The Impossible Man
Patchen Barss
The Last of Its Kind
Gisli Palsson
The Story of a Heart
Rachel Clarke
Twelve Trees
Daniel Lewis
Your Face Belongs to Us
Kashmir Hill
The Secret Public
Jon Savage
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer
Ian Wade
Street-Level Superstar
Will Hodgkinson
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe
Vivien Goldman
Hip-Hop Is History
Questlove
The Genetic Book of the Dead
Richard Dawkins
Cypria
Alex Christofi
Why Animals Talk
Arik Kershenbaum
Rat City
Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden
Sociopath
Patric Gagne
Rumbles
Elsa Richardson
Everything to Play For
Marijam Did
How the World Made the West
Josephine Quinn

McKinsey & Company — McKinsey Annual Book Recommendations 2024

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An Amerikan Family
Santi Elijah Holley
Chasing Hope
Nicholas D. Kristof
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
M. K. Asante
Playing from the Rough
Jimmie James
The Rigor of Angels
William Egginton
Trace
Jenny Holzer
Walk Through Fire
Sheila Johnson
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
William Ury
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Good Energy
Casey Means
My Father's Brain
Sandeep Jauhar
Lifespan
David A. Sinclair
Outlive
Peter Attia
Unwell Women
Elinor Cleghorn
Why We Remember
Charan Ranganath
Culture: The Story of Us
Martin Puchner
Eyeliner: A Cultural History
Zahra Hankir
The Five
Hallie Rubenhold
The Game
Jon Pessah
One Fine Day
Matthew Parker
Painting for Profit
Richard E. Spear and Philip Sohm
The Radium Girls
Kate Moore
Religion and the Decline of Magic
Keith Thomas
An Unfinished Love Story
Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Art of Explanation
Ros Atkins
Don't Believe Everything You Think
Joseph Nguyen
Homecoming
John Bradshaw
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
Says Who?
Anne Curzan
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott
To My Sisters
Renee Kapuku and Courtney Daniella Boateng
What I Know for Sure
Oprah Winfrey
Age of Revolutions
Fareed Zakaria
Eat the Buddha
Barbara Demick
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger
Ours Was the Shining Future
David Leonhardt
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison
Jason Rezaian
Whatever It Is, I'm Against It
Brian Rosenberg
Blue Machine
Helen Czerski
Children of a Modest Star
Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
God, Human, Animal, Machine
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Ideas That Created the Future
Harry R. Lewis
Inventor of the Future
Alec Nevala-Lee
The Singularity Is Nearer
Ray Kurzweil

Bloomberg — Bloomberg's Best Books of 2024

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The Burning Earth
Sunil Amrith
Impossible Monsters
Michael Taylor
The Demon of Unrest
Erik Larson
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
William Ury
The City Is Up for Grabs
Gregory Royal Pratt
The Heat Will Kill You First
Jeff Goodell
How Not to Age
Michael Greger
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
The Longevity Imperative
Andrew J. Scott
Flavorama
Arielle Johnson
ADHD for Smart Ass Women
Tracy Otsuka
Music and Mind
Renee Fleming
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
Natasha Tidd
Up Home
Ruth Simmons
Horse Barbie
Geena Rocero
How to Know a Person
David Brooks
Much Ado About Numbers
Rob Eastaway
Non Me la Bevo
Michele Fino
The Highest Calling
David Rubenstein
The Rising
Larry Silverstein
The Golden Road
William Dalrymple
Doppelganger
Naomi Klein
Age of Revolutions
Fareed Zakaria
Les Rebelles Magnifiques
Andrea Wulf

J.P. Morgan — J.P. Morgan Summer Reading List 2024

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Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
Phaidon
Love & Whiskey
Fawn Weaver
Secret Stays
Melinda Stevens, Issy von Simson, and Tabitha Joyce
The Worth of Water
Gary White and Matt Damon

Bill Gates (Gates Notes) — Bill Gates: Holiday Books 2024

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An Unfinished Love Story
Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Engineering in Plain Sight
Grady Hillhouse
Federer
Doris Henkel