Goodreads editors have crunched some more numbers to give us a list of 51 of the most popular nonfiction books of 2024 (so far). To do so, they looked at which titles their members had saved under the Read or Want to Read sections on the site, which boasts more than 150 million members. They’ve organized the list into categories that may overlap a bit: Essays, History & Biography, Memoirs, Science, and General Nonfiction. A sampling of Goodreads’ 51 most popular nonfiction books of 2024 is below:

Essays

by Hanif Abdurraqib by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

Memoirs

by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez by RuPaul

History & Biography

by Antonia Hylton by Katie Gee Salisbury

Science, Technology & Health 

by Jen Gunter by Kara Swisher

General Nonfiction

by Shannon Reed by Crystal Wilkinson To see the complete list, visit

Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books.