- When a crocodile eats the sun, a memoir of Africa, Peter Godwin
- Collapse, how societies choose to fail or succeed, Jared Diamond
- We carry their bones, the search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys, Erin Kimmerle
- Seventy times seven, a true story of murder and mercy, Alex Mar
- Conundrum, Jan Morris
- Team of rivals, the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The hidden roots of white supremacy, and the path to a shared American future, Robert P. Jones
- Drinking, a love story, Caroline Knapp
- Lit, a memoir, Mary Karr
- Genealogy of a murder, four generations, three families, one fateful night, Lisa Belkin
- The Alphabet Bomber, a lone wolf terrorist ahead of his time, Jeffrey D. Simon
- Fancy Bear goes phishing, the dark history of the information age, in five extraordinary hacks, Scott J. Shapiro
- The making of a leader, the formative years of George C. Marshall, Josiah Bunting III
- Sedition hunters, how January 6th broke the justice system, Ryan J. Reilly
- The boy who was raised as a dog, and other stories from a child psychiatrist's notebook : what traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing, Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, and Maia Szalavitz
- The noonday demon, an atlas of depression, Andrew Solomon
- The nature of life and death, every body leaves a trace, Patricia Wiltshire
- Redhanded, an exploration of criminals, cannibals, cults, and what makes a killer tick, Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire
- Life sentence, the brief and tragic career of Baltimore's deadliest gang leader, by Mark Bowden
- The devil in the white city, murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America, Erik Larson
- I'll be gone in the dark, one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara ; with an introduction by Gillian Flynn and an afterword by Patton Oswalt
- Travelers to unimaginable lands:, stories of dementia, the caregiver, and the human brain, Dasha Kiper ; [foreword by Norman Doidge]
- Brain on fire, my month of madness, Susannah Cahalan
- The teachers, a year inside America's most vulnerable, important profession, Alexandra Robbins
- First platoon, a story of modern war in the age of identity dominance, Annie Jacobsen
- Walk the walk, how three police chiefs defied the odds and changed cop culture, Neil Gross
- Birth, three mothers, nine months, and pregnancy in America, Rebecca Grant
- Tuesdays with Morrie, an old man, a young man and life's greatest lesson, Mitch, Albom
- All-American murder, the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row, James Patterson & Alex Abramovich with Mike Harvkey
- The league of lady poisoners, illustrated true stories of dangerous women, written and illustrated by Lisa Perrin ; foreword by Holly Frey and Maria Trimarchi
- Coal country killing, a culture, a union, and the murders that changed it all, Robert K. Tanenbaum and Steve Jackson
- Behind the doors of justice, the Murdaugh murders, Rebecca "Becky" H. Hill ; with Neil R. Gordon
- Trailed, one woman's quest to solve the Shenandoah murders, Kathryn Miles
- The ultimate evil, the search for the Sons of Sam, Maury Terry
- Too late to say goodbye, a true story of murder and betrayal, Ann Rule
- When emancipation came, the end of enslavement on a Southern plantation and a Russian estate, Sally Stocksdale
- Murder thy neighbor, true-crime thrillers, James Patterson
- Love across borders, passports, papers, and romance in a divided world, Anna Lekas Miller
- Tell me what you want, a therapist and her clients explore our 12 deepest desires, Charlotte Fox Weber
- Killers of the flower moon, the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI : adapted for young readers, David Grann
- Frenemies in the family, famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs, written by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Maple Lam
- Children of the state, survival and hope in the juvenile justice system, Jeff Hobbs
- The angel makers, arsenic, a midwife, and modern history's most astonishing murder ring, Patti McCracken
- Bad blood, secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup, John Carreyrou
- The canceling of the American mind, cancel culture undermines trust and threatens us all--but there is a solution, by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott
- Till murder do us part, true-crime thrillers, James Patterson ; with Andrew Bourelle and Max Dilallo
- The Violence Project, how to stop a mass shooting epidemic, Jillian Peterson, PhD & James Densley, PhD
- The tomorrow game, rival teenagers, their race for a gun, and a community united to save them, Sudhir Venkatesh
- While Idaho slept, the hunt for answers in the murders of four college students, J. Reuben Appelman
- Tell me what you want, a therapist and her clients explore our 12 deepest desires, Charlotte Fox Weber