A list of the best fiction and nonfiction I've read lately

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Figuring
Maria Popova  |  2019  |  biographies


Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
William Finnegan  |  2016  |  memoir


The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton  |  2018  |  mystery


The Altruists
Andrew Ridker  |  2019  |  literary fiction


Call Them by Their True Names
American Crises (and Essays)
Rebecca Solnit  |  2018  |  essay collection


In Our Mad and Furious City
Guy Gunaratne  |  2018  |  literary fiction


Stuffed and Starved
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Raj Patel  |  2012  |  nonfiction


Yellow Submarine
Maria Popova  |  In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs  |  2017  |  essay


Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo  |  2012  |  narrative nonfiction


The Incendiaries
R. O. Kwon  |  2018  |  literary fiction


Can't Even
How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Anne Helen Petersen  |  2020  |  nonfiction


Twelve Minutes and a Life
Mitchell S. Jackson  |  Runner's World  |  2020  |  feature story


Educated
Tara Westover  |  2018  |  memoir


The Sandman
Lars Kepler  |  2018  |  thriller


The Divide
Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Jason Hickel  |  2017  |  nonfiction


Selfie
How the West Became Self-Obsessed
Will Storr  |  2018  |  nonfiction


The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt  |  2013  |  literary fiction


There, There
Tommy Orange  |  2018  |  literary fiction


Trick Mirror
Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino  |  2019  |  essay collection


What If?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe  |  2014  |  Q&A collection


Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff  |  2015  |  literary fiction


The Social Life of Forests
Ferris Jabr  |  The New York Times Magazine  |  2020  |  magazine feature


Hiroshima
John Hersey  |  The New Yorker  |  1946  |  narrative nonfiction


Going the Distance (and Beyond) to Catch Marathon Cheaters
Gordy Megroz  |  Wired  |  2020  |  magazine feature


The Truth About Animals
Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
Lucy Cooke  |   2018  |  nonfiction