New Nonfiction to Read in 2023
Find all the nonfiction reads you need to be in-the-know this year. Explore biographies of famous figures, memoirs, historical accounts of life-changing events, and more.
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Add to BookshelfPoverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
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The Creative Act
by Rick Rubin
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.
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The Body Liberation Project
by Chrissy King
From author and wellness personality Chrissy King, an exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and activities and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary: body liberation.
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The Climate Book
by Greta Thunberg
You might think it’s an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds! There is hope — but only if we listen to the science before it’s too late. We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world’s leading climate activist comes the essential handbook for making it happen.
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I Can’t Save You
by Anthony Chin-Quee
The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward. By turns harrowing and hilarious, honest and human, I Can’t Save You is the fascinating true story of how looking within can change you and your life for the better.
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Spare
by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
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Saving Time
by Jenny Odell
The New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing offers us a different way to experience time in this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book. Saving Time tugs at the seams of reality as we know it – the way we experience time itself – and rearranges it, imagining a world not centered on work, the office clock, or the profit motive. If we can “save” time by imagining a life, identity, and source of meaning outside these things, time might also save us.
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Living in the Light
by Deepak Chopra, MD and Sarah Platt-Finger
Reach your highest potential and a deeper understanding of self with Deepak Chopra’s groundbreaking guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga. Combining a practical thirty-day program that will help you break limiting habits and belief systems with an in-depth exploration of fifty stimulating and restorative yoga poses, this book provides a thorough and inspiring way to unite the mind, body, and soul.
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Drama Free
by Nedra Glover Tawwab
From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a road map for understanding and moving past family struggles — and living life, your way.
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Mott Street
by Ava Chin
From the winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize and a New York Public Library Cullman fellow comes a sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family’s epic journey to lay down roots in America. Gorgeously written, deeply researched, and tremendously resonant, Mott Street uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience, past and present.
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The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
by Katherine Morgan Schafler
From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” to challenge the way they look at perfectionism, and the way they look at themselves. Ultimately, this book will show you how to make the single greatest trade you’ll ever make in your life, which is to exchange superficial control for real power.
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A Few Days Full of Trouble
by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson
The last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with poignant recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for racial reckoning, both then and now.
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Spoken Word
by Joshua Bennett
A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, through one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion.
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Dyscalculia
by Camonghne Felix
An epic meditation on loving yourself in the face of heartbreak, from the acclaimed author of Build Yourself a Boat, longlisted for the National Book Award.
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Anaximander
by Carlo Rovelli
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander.
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Unscripted
by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams
The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who first broke the news.
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On the Origin of Time
by Thomas Hertog
Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar’s final thoughts on the cosmos — a dramatic revision of the theory he put forward in A Brief History of Time. On the Origin of Time offers a striking new vision of the universe’s birth that will profoundly transform the way we think about our place in the order of the cosmos and may ultimately prove to be Hawking’s greatest legacy.
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Glow in the F*cking Dark
by Tara Schuster
The author of the runaway hit Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies shares honest and practical lessons for healing your past and owning your future so you can radiate strength, bravery, and joy when life gets dark.
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Enchantment
by Katherine May
In Enchantment, Katherine May invites the reader to come with her on a journey to reawaken our innate sense of wonder and awe. Through deliberate attention and ritual, she unearths the potency and nourishment that come from quiet reconnection with our immediate environment. Blending lyricism and storytelling, sensitivity and empathy, Enchantment invites each of us to open the door to human experience in all its sensual complexity and to find the beauty waiting for us there.
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Help Is on the Way
by Kountry Wayne
Comedic superstar and internet entrepreneur Kountry Wayne’s unflinchingly honest, often outrageous, but always hopeful and hard-won lessons on having faith. Whether you are simply looking for a laugh to boost your spirit or some real guidance to help you in life, love, or money, Kountry has got you covered.
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