Time December 2–9, 2019
SHE SAID
Jodi Kantor and
Megan Twohey
The reporters recount
how they broke the Harvey
Weinstein story and gained
the trust of survivors who
had every reason never to
trust again, shining light
not on the accused but
instead on those who were
brave enough to speak out
against him.
MY FRIEND ANNA
Rachel DeLoache
Williams
Williams was entranced by
Anna “Delvey,” a woman
who claimed to be a German
heiress—until she left Wil-
liams with a $62,000 tab
on her credit cards and no
means to pay the bills. Wil-
liams reveals the story of her
friendship with now notorious
con woman Anna Sorokin.
CATCH AND KILL
Ronan Farrow
That Farrow’s thriller
about reporting on
sexual misconduct at
the Weinstein Co., CBS
and NBC is all true only
makes it that much scar-
ier. He paints a damning
portrait of a conspiracy
between major players
in politics and media to
cover up rampant abuse.
THE 10 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS
TRUE CRIME AND JOURNALISM
1. SAY NOTHING
Patrick Radden
Keefe
Keefe delivers a strong
example of how to take
a brutal crime (the
murder of a mother of
10 in 1972 Northern
Ireland) and use it
to tell, in page after
gripping page, a much
larger history—delving
into the IRA, the British
occupation and the ter-
rorism that plagued the
country for decades.
2. KNOW
MY NAME
Chanel Miller
Miller—known for
years as Emily Doe, the
woman who delivered
a powerful victim-
impact statement
after being sexually
assaulted at a 2015
Stanford party—gives
the most profound look
at life as a survivor
we’ve seen since the
#MeToo movement
began.
3. THE
YELLOW HOUSE
Sarah M. Broom
One of the many things
lost in Hurricane
Katrina was the home
where Broom and her
11 siblings once lived
with their parents. In
her memoir, Broom
reflects on the history
of the New Orleans
East neighborhood
and her family’s
experiences there.
4. UNDERLAND
Robert Macfarlane
Macfarlane journeys
deep inside mines,
through the catacombs
of Paris and into
glaciers to examine a
layer of the world that
humans irrevocably
shape but rarely stop
to consider. He asks
that most haunting
of questions: What
is our true mark on
this planet?
5. IN THE
DREAM HOUSE
Carmen Maria
Machado
Weaving examples
from academia, pop
culture and history
into a personal story,
Machado comments
on abuse in same-sex
relationships in a
tour de force medita-
tion on trauma, survival
and the language we
use to talk about it all.
6. FURIOUS
HOURS
Casey Cep
In the 1970s, Harper
Lee reported a story
that could have been
her next book: the
killing of an Alabama
man who was accused,
but never convicted,
of being a serial killer.
Cep investigates the
forgotten story, includ-
ing why Lee’s book
never materialized.
Keefe may
have solved
the cold-case
murder through
his reporting
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