best of 2022: nonfiction

My favorite nonfiction books of 2022!  Just a few notes:

- The first book listed is my absolute favorite, but the rest are in random order.

- Not all of these were first published in 2022, but that's when I first read them.

- As always, your mileage may vary.

1. Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse:  The author has a knack for getting people to open up to her, so when she got an offer to do investigations for a lawyer, she jumped at the chance.  This engrossing and often disturbing memoir details her work on putting together a lawsuit dealing with a gang rape at a Colorado college and how the quest for justice began to consume her.

2. Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz:  Essays on lesbianism and pop culture.  Very funny (with a few grimly notable exceptions) and thought-provoking.

3. The Tiger and the Cage by Emma Bolden:  A gripping memoir about the author's struggles with severe endometriosis and her desperation to be taken seriously by her doctors.

4. In the Weeds by Tom Vitale:  A warts and all look behind the scenes of Anthony Bourdain's TV shows. 

5. No One Crosses the Wolf by Lisa Nikolidakis:  The author's childhood and adolescence was marred by her father's physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.  When she was 27, her father murdered his girlfriend and her daughter and then killed himself.  Wondering who her father really was and why he'd committed such horrible crimes, she went to Greece to track down his estranged family.  Dark and sad (obviously), but it ends on a redemptive note, and it made me cry, which books rarely do.