New Nonfiction – June 2025

Super gay poems : LGBTQIA+ poetry after Stonewall / Stephanie Burt [editor]

What my father and I don't talk about : sixteen writers break the silence / edited by Michele Filgate.

Ballistic : the new science of injury-free athletic performance / by Henry Abbott.

We all want to change the world : my journey through social justice movements from the 1960s to today / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld.

Bismillah, let's eat! : fresh and vibrant recipes from my family to yours / by Zehra Allibhai photography by Joanna Wojewoda.

Health shots : 50 simple tonics to help improve immunity, ease anxiety, boost energy, and more / Toby Amidor, RD.

Rethinking medications : truth, power, and the drugs you take / Jerry Avorn, MD.

The hollow half : a memoir of bodies and borders / Sarah Aziza.

ChatGPT / by Pam Baker.

Manual not included / Hilaria Baldwin.

Big dumb eyes : stories from a simpler mind / Nate Bargatze.

Class clown : the memoirs of a professional wiseass: how I went 77 years without growing up / Dave Barry.

The art of winning / Bill Belichick.

Matchmaker matchmaker : find me a love that lasts / Aleeza Ben Shalom.

The purposeful warrior : standing up for what's right when the stakes are high / Jocelyn Benson.

Hell in boots : clawing my way through nine lives / Saraya-Jade Bevis with Bernadette Murphy.

The end is the beginning : a personal history of my mother / Jill Bialosky.

When the Earth was green : plants, animals, and evolution's greatest romance / Riley Black [illustrations by Kory Bing].

They poisoned the world : life and death in the age of forever chemicals / Mariah Blake.

The balance : my years coaching Simone Biles / Aimee Boorman with Steve Cooper [foreword by Simon Biles].

The ageless brain : how to sharpen and protect your mind for a lifetime / Dale E. Bredesen, MD.

Moral ambition : stop wasting your talent and start making a difference / Rutger Bregman translated from the Dutch by Erica Moore.

Uptown girl : a memoir / Christie Brinkley [with Sarah Toland].

The acid queen : the psychedelic life and counterculture rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary / Susannah Cahalan.

The sky's the limit : lessons in service, entrepreneurship and achieving the American dream / John P. Calamos, Sr., Joe Garner.

Live with the things you love : ... and you'll live happily ever after / Mary Randolph Carter photography by Carter Berg.

Mark Twain / Ron Chernow.

The wanderer's curse : a memoir / Jennifer Hope Choi.

A change of habit : leaving behind my husband, career, and everything I owned to become a nun / Sister Monica Clare.

Detoxify : the everyday toxins harming your immune system and how to defend against them / Aly Cohen, MD.

My father's house : an ode to America's longest-serving black congressman / John Conyers III.

Women of war : the Italian assassins, spies, and couriers who fought the Nazis / Suzanne Cope.

Every day with Babs : 101 family-friendly dinners for every day of the week / Barbara Costello photographs by Dane Tashima.

When we sold God's eye : diamonds, murder, and a clash of worlds in the Amazon / by Alex Cuadros.

Daughters of the bamboo grove : from China to America, a true story of abduction, adoption, and separated twins / Barbara Demick.

The power of parting : finding peace and freedom through family estrangement / Eamon Dolan.

We can do hard things : answers to life's 20 questions / Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle and 118 wayfinders.

Taking Midway : naval warfare, secret codes, and the battle that turned the tide of World War II / Martin Dugard.

The next day : transitions, change, and moving forward / Melinda French Gates.

Alive day : a memoir / Karie Fugett.

The Meathead method : a BBQ Hall of Famer's secrets and science on bbq, grilling, and outdoor cooking with 114 recipes / Meathead foreward by Alton Brown photographs by Meathead with recipe inspirations from Brigit Binns.

Karen : a brother remembers / Kelsey Grammer.

The man nobody killed : life, death, and art in Michael Stewart's New York / Elon Green.

The gut-brain paradox : improve your mood, clear brain fog, and reverse disease by healing your microbiome / Steven R. Gundry, MD with Jodi Lipper.

Walk like a girl / Prabal Gurung

Poets square : a memoir in thirty cats / Courtney Gustafson.

Hollywood high : a totally epic, way opinionated history of teen movies / Bruce Handy.

No more tears : the dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson / Gardiner Harris.

What's left : three paths through the planetary crisis / Macolm Harris.

The ocean's menagerie : how earth's strangest creatures reshape the rules of life / Drew Harvell.

The last tsar : the abdication of Nicholas II and the fall of the Romanovs / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.

Baking across America : a vintage recipe road trip / B. Dylan Hollis.

Queen of all mayhem : the blood-soaked life and mysterious death of Belle Starr, the most dangerous woman in the West / Dane Huckelbridge.

Marketcrafters : the 100-year struggle to shape the American economy / Chris Hughes.

Accidentally on purpose : a memoir / Kristen Kish with Stef Ferrari.

Lost at sea : poverty and paradise collide at the edge of America / Joe Kloc.

Free : my search for meaning / Amanda Knox.

How to sleep like a caveman : ancient wisdom for a better night's rest / Merijn van de Laar.

How to be well : navigating our self-care epidemic, one dubious cure at a time / Amy Larocca.

Warhol's muses : the artists, misfits, and superstars destroyed by the Factory fame machine / Laurence Leamer.

Lawless : how the Supreme Court runs on conservative grievance, fringe theories, and bad vibes / Leah Litman.

Zbig : the life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's great power prophet / Edward Luce.

Strangers in the land : exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America / Michael Luo.

In Covid's wake : how our politics failed us / Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.

Is a river alive? / Robert Macfarlane.

Salsa daddy : dip your way into Mexican cooking / Rick Martínez with Alex Beggs photographs by Alex Lau.

Apple in China : the capture of the world's greatest company / Patrick McGee.

Conquering crisis : ten lessons to learn before you need them / Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired).

They will tell you the world is yours : on little rebellions and finding your way / by Anna Mitchael.

100 beaches of a lifetime : the world's ultimate shorelines / Freda Moon & Ashley Harrell.

Rebel queen : the Cold War, misogyny, and the making of a grandmaster / Susan Polgar with a foreward by Yasser Seirawan.

Wild thing : a life of Paul Gauguin / Sue Prideaux.

Freedom ship : the uncharted history of escaping slavery by sea / Marcus Rediker.

Fat + flour : the art of a simple bake / Nicole Rucker.

Lessons from my teachers : from preschool to the present / Sarah Ruhl.

Life and art : essays / Richard Russo.

Money for couples : no more stress. no more fights. just a 10-step plan to create your rich life together / Ramit Sethi.

The peepshow : the murders at Rillington Place / Kate Summerscale.

Into the ice : the Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-year-old mystery / Mark Synnott.

Original sin : President Biden's decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again / Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.

Super agers : an evidence-based approach to longevity / Eric Topol, MD.

Marsha : the joy and defiance of Marsha P. Johnson / Tourmaline.

The great nerve : the new science of the vagus nerve and how to harness its healing reflexes / Kevin J. Tracey, MD.

Make your mark : lessons in character from seven presidents / Mark K. Updegrove.

The Vietnam War : a military history / Geoffrey Wawro.

The afterlife of Malcolm X : an outcast turned icon's enduring impact on America / Mark Whitaker.

Two sisters : betrayal, love, and resistance in wartime France / Rosie Whitehouse.

The sailing of the Intrepid : the incredible wartime voyage of the Navy's iconic aircraft carrier / Montel Williams and David Fisher.

1861 : the lost peace / Jay Winik.

Earthly materials : journeys through our bodies' emissions, excretions, and disintegrations / Cutter Wood.

Careless people : a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism / Sarah Wynn-Williams.

The art spy : the extraordinary untold tale of WWII resistance hero Rose Valland / Michelle Young.

Falling in love at the movies : rom-coms from the screwball era to today / Esther Zuckerman.