Best of Everything Nonfiction 2023

The best nonfiction books, films, and documentaries reviewed on everythingnonfiction.com

Here are the best-reviewed books, films, and documentaries from this past year. A review of three-and-a-half stars or greater is needed to make this list. While a review may have been written in 2023, that doesn’t mean that a book or film was released this year.

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction Books of 2023

Small Town, Big Oil: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World – and Won

Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders

Formerly Known as Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Dive: The Untold Story of the World’s Deepest Submarine Rescue

The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

Greenlights

The Edge of Doubt: The Trial of Nancy Smith and Joeseph Allen


The Best Reviewed Nonfiction Films of 2023

True Spirit

Air

Sound of Freedom

Oppenheimer

Killers of The Flower Moon (I didn’t review it but it makes my list)


The Best Reviewed Docudramas of 2023

The Days

Painkiller


The Best Reviewed Documentaries and Docuseries of 2023

The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker

The Monster of Wall Street

Take Care of Maya

The Phantom

Bad Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul

Who Killed Jill Dando

Depp vs Heard


The Best Reviewed VR Games

Red Matter 2

I Expect You to Die

The Atlas Mystery

I Expect You to Die 2

Boneworks