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2022's Top Ten Nonfiction Books A excellent nonfiction book challenges you to reevaluate what you believed you understood about the world and perhaps even who you are. It does more than just teach you something new about it. The best nonfiction books that came out this year have a range of topics; some are quite focused while others are broad and exploratory. However, they all pose important themes about loss, grit, and survival. Through the journey of one of the first Jews to escape Auschwitz, Jonathan Freedland emphasizes the strength of the truth in his book The Escape Artist. Sabrina Imbler explores how marine biology may help us understand the most intimate, human aspects of ourselves in her book How Far the Light Reaches. Adapted from Stacy Schiff's outstanding account of Samuel Adams' participation in the American Revolution The following list of the top ten nonfiction books of 2022 ranges from Imani Perry's insightful tour of the American South. Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff revisits the American Revolution in her engrossing biography of founding father Samuel Adams. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams centers on the years leading up to 1776 when Adams helped fan the earliest flames of the independence movement. Though he drove the anti-British rebellion in Massachusetts and had an outsized role in the Revolution, Adams’ story has been told far less than those of other founders like George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. Schiff details his clandestine work and his growing radicalization to show how vital he was to American independence, crafting an intricate portrait of a man long overshadowed by his contemporaries.