Title: The Year of Magical Thinking (National Book Award Winner), Author: Joan Didion
Title: Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, Author: Michael Gorra
Title: Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism, Author: Thomas Brothers
Title: The Light of the World, Author: Elizabeth Alexander
Title: When Breath Becomes Air, Author: Paul Kalanithi
Title: Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character, Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Title: Richard Nixon: The Life, Author: John A. Farrell
Title: The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, Author: Max Boot
Title: Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, Author: George Packer
Title: Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me, Author: Deirdre Bair
Title: Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, Author: Amy Stanley
Best Books of 2020
Title: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, Author: Heather Clark
Title: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, Author: Janice P. Nimura
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Best Books of 2022
Title: His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Author: Robert Samuels
Title: Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century, Author: Jennifer Homans
Title: Larry McMurtry: A Life, Author: Tracy Daugherty