Best Nonfiction

John Hersey's 'Hiroshima,' a 1948 Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism, is a profoundly moving account of six survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Rather than focusing on military strategy or...

James Baldwin's 'The Fire Next Time' (1963) is a powerful and urgent collection of two essays addressing the complexities of race and racism in America. Baldwin's eloquent prose and unflinching honest...

Sherwood Smith's 'The Pulitzer Prize Story of a Chinese Village' (1985) provides a detailed and intimate portrait of life in a remote Chinese village undergoing rapid social and economic change. Smith...

Sven Lindqvists 'Binocular Vision,' the 1996 National Book Award winner, is a profound and unsettling exploration of European colonialism and its impact on the world. Lindqvists writing is sharp and i...

Isabel Wilkersons epic narrative tells the story of the Great Migration, the decades-long movement of African Americans from the South to the North and West. By following the lives of three individual...

The Moth is the premier platform for live, unscripted storytelling. Each episode features people telling true stories on stage, without notes, in front of a live audience. The result is raw, authentic...