New Nonfiction To Read This Year
Find all the nonfiction reads you need to be in-the-know in 2024. Explore biographies of famous figures, memoirs, historical accounts of life-changing events, and more.
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Add to BookshelfThe Small and the Mighty
by Sharon McMahon
From America’s favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the school teachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history’s unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time.
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Vanishing Treasures
by Katherine Rundell
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world. Beautifully illustrated, and full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.
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Framed
by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.
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Consider This
by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Inspiring advice for navigating life’s ups and downs, and finding ways to grow every day — from the New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace and Drama Free. Topics include setting boundaries, rising above drama, expressing ourselves with clarity and integrity, and finding peace and joy every chance we can get. This empowering and embraceable book will help us stay the course — and grow more fully into ourselves every day.
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
by Amy Tan
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club. With a foreword by David Allen Sibley.
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Nexus
by Yuval Noah Harari
From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
by Ina Garten
In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten — aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon — shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.
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Countdown 1960
by Chris Wallace
The riveting new book on the momentous year, campaign, and election that shaped American history. This is a nonfiction political thriller filled with intrigue, cinematic action, and fresh reporting. Like with many popular histories, readers may be familiar with the story, but few will know the behind-the-scenes details, told here with gripping effect.
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The Singularity Is Nearer
by Ray Kurzweil
Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil’s predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public. The Singularity Is Nearer — the successor to Kurzweil’s landmark book — explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come.
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Outlive
by Peter Attia, MD
A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert.
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The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell — and the ones we don’t — shape our realities.
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Citizen
by Bill Clinton
In this landmark publication, the highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling My Life, Clinton pens an illuminating account of American democracy on a global stage, offering a frank reflection on the past and, with it, a fearless embrace of our future. Citizen is a self-portrait of equal parts eloquence, insight, and candor, a testament to one man’s unwavering commitment to family and nation.
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The Demon of Unrest
by Erik Larson
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War — a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
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Good Energy
by Casey Means, MD and Calley Means
What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause? Good Energy offers a new, cutting-edge understanding of the true cause of illness that until now has remained hidden. It will help you optimize your ability to live well and stay well at every age.
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Nuclear War
by Annie Jacobsen
Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made. Nuclear War: A Scenario examines the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch. It is essential reading, and unlike any other book in its depth and urgency.
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Right Thing, Right Now
by Ryan Holiday
In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, he argues for the necessity of doing what’s right — even when it isn’t easy.
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Undue Burden
by Shefali Luthra
An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and the economic, emotional, and life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom.
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Brave New Words
by Salman Khan
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good.
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The Anxious Generation
by Jonathan Haidt
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
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The Color of Everything
by Cory Richards
A renowned climber and National Geographic photographer shares his incredible adventures — and the early trauma that drove him to seek such heights — in a vivid memoir that spans the summit of Everest to the darkest corners of the soul.
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Infectious Generosity
by Chris Anderson
The bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED explores one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future — “an essential read to kick off the new year” (Forbes, “16 Must Have Books and Podcasts for Leaders in 2024”).
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The Trading Game
by Gary Stevenson
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a rags-to-riches tale of Citibank’s one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up — a Liar’s Poker for a new generation.
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Grown Woman Talk
by Sharon Malone, M.D.
A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading OB/GYN and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health.
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The Swans of Harlem
by Karen Valby
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history — until now.
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Supercommunicators
by Charles Duhigg
From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work — and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.
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Slow Productivity
by Cal Newport
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload.
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The New Menopause
by Mary Claire Haver, MD
Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, find everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage.
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Break the Cycle
by Dr. Mariel Buqué
The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma — weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room — from Dr. Mariel Buqué, PhD, a Columbia University-trained trauma-informed psychologist and practitioner of holistic healing.
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Why We Remember
by Charan Ranganath, PhD
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world’s top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma, and healing.
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The Wide Wide Sea
by Hampton Sides
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
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2020
by Eric Klinenberg
A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and bestselling author Eric Klinenberg.
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There’s Always This Year
by Hanif Abdurraqib
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home — from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America.
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The Algebra of Wealth
by Scott Galloway
A must-have guide to optimizing your life for wealth and success, from bestselling author, NYU professor, and co-host of the Pivot podcast Scott Galloway.
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
by Jonathan Blitzer
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer.
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Fight Right
by Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD and John Gottman, PhD
Conflict is the top reason couples seek help — but it’s also an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love according to this essential guide from the world’s leading relationship scientists and bestselling authors of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and Eight Dates.
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