Washington Post Notable Nonfiction of 2013

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

The Spark : A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism

The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris

Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Collision 2012: The Future of Election Politics in a Divided America

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA

The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

Swimming Studies

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

The World's Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover's Adventure

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy