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New Nonfiction to Read in 2022
Find all the nonfiction reads you need to be in-the-know this year. Explore biographies of famous figures, historical accounts of life-changing events, and more.
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by Seán Hewitt
By turns devastating and soaring, an ambitious memoir debut from one of Irish literature’s rising stars, Seán Hewitt. All Down Darkness Wide illuminates a path ahead for queer literature and for the literature of heartbreak, striking a piercing and resonant chord for all who trace Hewitt’s dauntless footsteps.
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by Selma Blair
Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as…a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth.
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by Timothy Snyder
Acclaimed author and historian Timothy Snyder has long cautioned that democracy is a fragile state. In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes twenty new lectures, he explores the circumstances that laid the groundwork for the Russian invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 and explains the connection of those incursions to other current world events, such as Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.
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by Margaret Atwood
In this brilliant selection of essays, award-winning, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from debt and tech to the climate crisis and freedom and the importance of how to define granola. We have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
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by Julie Bogart
At a time when online media has created a virtual firehose of information and opinions, parents and teachers worry how students will interpret what they read and see. Drawing on more than twenty years’ experience, Julie Bogart offers practical tools to help children at every stage of development grow in their ability to explore the world around them, examine how their loyalties and biases affect their beliefs, and generate fresh insight rather than recycle what they’ve been taught. Raising Critical Thinkers helps parents to nurture passionate learners with thoughtful minds and empathetic hearts.
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by Candice Millard
From the New York Times bestselling author of River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic, comes the stirring story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time, and its complicated legacy. Here, Candice Millard has written another peerless story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers.
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by Benjamin Gilmer
A powerful true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion of one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time.
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by Linda Villarosa
From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.
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by Kathryn Schulz
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz’s beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the stories of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of how all our lives are shaped by loss and discovery—from the maddening disappearance of everyday objects to the sweeping devastations of war, pandemic, and natural disaster; from finding new planets to falling in love. Crafted with the emotional clarity of C. S. Lewis and the intellectual force of Susan Sontag, Lost & Found is an uncommon book about common experiences.
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by Chuck Klosterman
From the New York Times bestselling author of But What if We’re Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history.
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by Y-Vonne Hutchinson
Diversity and inclusion strategist Y-Vonne Hutchinson helps tech giants, political leaders, and Fortune 500 companies speak more productively about racism and bias and turn talk into action. How to Talk to Your Boss About Race is a crucial handbook to moving beyond fear to push for change. No matter how much formal power you have, you can create antiracist change at work.
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by Thomas Fisher
The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind.
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by Daniel H. Pink
Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret. They’re a universal and healthy part of being human. Drawing on research in social psychology, neuroscience, and biology, Pink debunks the myth of the “no regrets” philosophy of life and instead lays out how understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives.
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An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde.
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by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing—telling the singular story of how one man’s tragic experience brought about a global movement for change.
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by Caleb Gayle
In this landmark work, award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. We Refuse to Forget is an eye-opening account that challenges the preconceptions of identity as it shines new light on the long shadows of white supremacy and marginalization that continue to hamper progress for Black Americans.
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by Nell McShane Wulfhart
The empowering story of a group of spirited stewardesses who fought for their rights in the cabin and revolutionized the workplace for all American women. Nell McShane Wulfhart crafts a rousing narrative of female empowerment, the paradigm-shifting ‘60s and ‘70s, the labor movement, and the cadre of gutsy women who fought for their rights—and won.
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A compelling look at violence and trauma from the psychiatrist who treated mass shooter James Holmes, perpetrator of the infamous movie theater massacre.
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by Jason Feifer
The moments of greatest change can also be the moments of greatest opportunity. Adapt more quickly and use the power of change to your advantage with this guide from the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine and host of the Build for Tomorrow podcast. We cannot anticipate tomorrow’s needs, but it shouldn’t take a crisis to push us forward. This book will show you how to make change on your own terms.
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by Martha Beck
In The Way of Integrity, Martha Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. With techniques tested on hundreds of her clients, Beck takes us on a spiritual adventure that not only will change the direction of our lives, but also bring us to a place of genuine happiness.
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