Boston Globe's Best Nonfiction of 2016

One of These Things First

Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

On Trails: An Exploration

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Time Travel: A History

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

One of these Things First

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

On Trails: An Exploration