The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The 75th National Book Awards celebrated with a ceremony, comedy from Kate McKinnon and music from Jon Batiste. Percival ...

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” ...

Everett, a Brown University alum, was joined by winners in nonfiction, poetry, books in translation, and books for children.

Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker ...

Making Books in the Middle Ages by Sara J Charles (Reaktion) This fascinating book explores the medieval process of bookmaking and reproduction that was often arduous, back-breaking, eye-straining ...

Faber will publish Lally MacBeth’s debut work of non-fiction, The Lost Folk. Publishing director Hannah Knowles acquired ...

Percival Everett’s “James" won the National Book Award for fiction. For nonfiction, Jason De León’s “Soldiers and Kings: ...

An appointed panel in Texas reclassified "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" from nonfiction to fiction at county library.

Comedian and author Kate McKinnon, Jon Batiste, Barbara Kingsolver and Percival Everett were among the performers and ...

A new licensing agreement between HarperCollins and an undisclosed AI company will “allow limited use of select nonfiction ...