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Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2015

Here is a list of Kurkus Review's best nonfiction of the year 2015. How many of these have you read?
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1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar (Eric Burns)
1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar
1
Eric Burns
1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History (Jay Winik)
1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
2
Jay Winik
All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West (David Gessner)
All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West
3
David Gessner
All the Wrong Places (Philip Connors)
All the Wrong Places
4
Philip Connors
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 (Bruce Hoffman)
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
5
Bruce Hoffman
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge (Antony Beevor)
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
6
Antony Beevor
The Argonauts (Maggie Nelson)
The Argonauts
7
Maggie Nelson
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 (Mark Twain)
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
8
Mark Twain
Back to Vietnam: Tours of the Heart (R. Bruce Logan)
Back to Vietnam: Tours of the Heart
9
R. Bruce Logan
Barefoot to Avalon (David Payne)
Barefoot to Avalon
10
David Payne
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Between the World and Me
11
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between You & Me (Mary Norris)
Between You & Me
12
Mary Norris
Beyond Words (Carl Safina)
Beyond Words
13
Carl Safina
Big Science (Michael Hiltzik)
Big Science
14
Michael Hiltzik
Billie Holiday - The Musician and the Myth (John Szwed)
Billie Holiday - The Musician and the Myth
15
John Szwed
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (Joby Warrick)
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
16
Joby Warrick
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget (Sarah Hepola)
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
17
Sarah Hepola
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing (Joe Domanick)
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
18
Joe Domanick
Chameleon: The True Story of an Impostor's Remarkable Odyssey (Robert Brandt)
Chameleon: The True Story of an Impostor's Remarkable Odyssey
19
Robert Brandt
The Comedians (Kliph Nesteroff)
The Comedians
20
Kliph Nesteroff
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime ­Jedwabne (Anna Bikont)
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime ­Jedwabne
21
Anna Bikont
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime (Harold Bloom)
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
22
Harold Bloom
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs (Lisa Randall)
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
23
Lisa Randall
Days of Rage (Bryan Burrough)
Days of Rage
24
Bryan Burrough
Dead Wake (Erik Larson)
Dead Wake
25
Erik Larson
Dear Prudence: The Story Behind the Song (Prudence Farrow Bruns)
Dear Prudence: The Story Behind the Song
26
Prudence Farrow Bruns
The Death of Cancer (Vincent T. Devita Jr.)
The Death of Cancer
27
Vincent T. Devita Jr.
The Devil's Chessboard (David Talbot)
The Devil's Chessboard
28
David Talbot
Do No Harm (Henry Marsh)
Do No Harm
29
Henry Marsh
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan (Graeme Smith)
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
30
Graeme Smith
Dreams to Remember (Mark Ribowsky)
Dreams to Remember
31
Mark Ribowsky
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States (Patrick Rael)
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States
32
Patrick Rael
Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State (Andrew Hosken)
Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State
33
Andrew Hosken
Empire of Self (Jay Parini)
Empire of Self
34
Jay Parini
Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake (Leo Damrosch)
Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
35
Leo Damrosch
The Folded Clock (Heidi Julavits)
The Folded Clock
36
Heidi Julavits
Galileo's Middle Finger (Alice Dreger)
Galileo's Middle Finger
37
Alice Dreger
The Gay Revolution (Lillian Faderman)
The Gay Revolution
38
Lillian Faderman
Ghettoside (Jill Leovy)
Ghettoside
39
Jill Leovy
The Girl From Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family (Roger Cohen)
The Girl From Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
40
Roger Cohen
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