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Why I'm glad you asked! I made a whole infographic to talk about it.

My top 5 were:

1. Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Bouey - a YA mystery thriller about a girl trying to crack a meth ring in her hometown. It's really good, and Netflix is making a miniseries out of it. I loved this book, but I struggle with telling people about the plot because it's, y'know, a thriller. I don't want to spoil it, but she really pays off all the subtle hints and threads well.
2. Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goldman - an oral history of the early aughts NYC rock scene - the yeah yeah yeahs, LCD soundsystem, interpol, the strokes, etc. This was my music and it was fun to go back and relive it. There's also a fantastic spotify playlist.
3. Canyon Dreams by Michael Powell - one season with a HS basketball team on the Navajo nation. Love a good sports "biography" especially the kind that focus on a single season or a unique team.
4. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson - two amateur divers discovered an unknown U-Boat off the coast of Cape May. This book was also really, really good - although it made me decide never to go into water deeper than my head lol.
5. Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe- A book about the Sackler dynasty and the opiod crisis. if there was any justice in the world, every last Sackler would be in jail for what they did.
6. Honorable Mentions: Eager: The Secret History of Beavers by Ben Goldfarb, Football for a Buck by Jeff Pearlman, Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

My least favorites were

1. Under the Black Flag by Chris Cordingly - not sure how you can make pirates boring, but he did it. 2.
2. Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller - The title caught my eye and I was hooked (pun intended), but the story kind of fizzles and the final third is really more about the author herself, which I was less interested.
3. Year Book by Seth Rogen - just wasn't that funny, and was pretty short.