12 Best Nonfiction Books I Read in 2019

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton.

The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family’s Search for the American Dream by Bryan Mealer.

Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court by Mollie Hemingway.

The Doctor Who Saved Babies: Ignaz Phillipp Semmelweis by Josephine Rich.

Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened By the Moon by Leonard S. Marcus.

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior.

The Discoverer of Insulin: Dr. Frederick Banting by I.E. Levine.

How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children’s Books by Joan Bodger.

Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Wilner.

Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life by Sarah Clarkson. I did several posts here on Semicolon in response to this book, including Reading Mentors, Book Empathy, Books of Faith, Books That Shaped Me, Reading in Fellowship, Reading Slump, Gifts of Reading, and How to Choose Books.

Sun King: Louis XIV of France by Alfred Apsler.

Young Man in a Hurry: The Story of Cyrus W. Field by Jean Lee Latham.

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