Favorite Non-Fiction Books Read in 2017

What was your favorite non-fiction/biography reads this year?

Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larsen
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
by Scott A. Berg
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
by Kate Summersdale

Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition by David Bakan
Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu by Ted Anton
The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England by Alex Owen
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle

Another vote for Dead Wake
Sinking the Sultana
Red Fire: Growing up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Valiant Ambition
The Wright Brothers
Atlantic - Biography of an Ocean

These all got 4 or 5 stars from me.

The Swerve
Breaking the Ring
The Invention of Nature
Half Earth

The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country by Charlotte Gray
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

Yet another vote for Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

With no close contenders for 2nd place, my absolute favorite was The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy.

Autobiography: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Biography: Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character by Marty Appel

Memoir: Land of Frozen Laughter: a Community Development Volunteer in the Vietnam War, 1967-1969 by John Lewallen

History: Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb

Reportage: Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration by Sam Quinones