New Nonfiction – October 2026

The new vegetarian : 500+ recipes for a lifetime of great meals / by America's Test Kitchen.

America the tasty / editor, Taste of Home.

Crossing the red line : Biden, his advisors, and Israel's war in Gaza / Akbar Shahid Ahmed.

Signals across vast distances : essays and tales / Elizabeth Alexander.

Story telling : a writing life / Isabel Allende.

Feed them well : a guide to raising healthy, confident eaters for life / Jennifer Anderson.

Brady : an American story and the price of greatness / Lars Anderson.

On courage : how to be a dissident in an age of fear / Julia Angwin, Ami Fields-Meyer.

The ballad of the fugitive William Parker : a true tale of love, murder, treason, and ordinary folks who saved America / Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.

Great and unfortunate things / Jason Arday with Eve Claxton.

The black death : a global history of humanity's most devastating pandemic / Thomas Asbridge.

The world beneath our feet / Frank Ashwood.

Your turn : how to create a midlife you love / Allison Aubrey.

You won't get free of it : stories of mothers and daughters / Rachel Aviv.

Crossroads : a memoir in baseball and life / Dusty Baker.

Nothing matters ... but delicious : a radically honest cookbook / Greg Baxtrom and Joshua David Stein photographs by Murray Hall.

Operation Sparrow : the incredible true story of the spies who tricked Hitler and won the war / Jason Bell.

All the presidents' wars : twenty-five years of America's war on terror / Peter Bergen with David Sterman.

The Marilyn Monroe century / Bruno Bernard with Joshua John Miller & Mark A. Fortin foreword by Rose McGowan.

Go and do likewise : how we heal a broken country / Andy Beshear.

American scoundrel : Roy Cohn's dark journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump / Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark.

Killin' time : my life and music / Clint Black with Craig Shelburne.

PlantYou quickies : 140+ nourishing plant-based recipes for busy people / Carleigh Bodrug.

Cuisine to kill for : recipes & true crime stories from the world's most haunted places / Amy Bruni.

Instagram & Facebook all-in-one / by Eric Butow, Amanda Robinson, Carolyn Abram, Amy Karasavas, Stephanie Diamond, John Haydon, Jenn Herman, and Corey Walker.

Steve Jobs in exile : the untold story of NeXT, and the remaking of an American visionary / Geoffrey Cain.

The man who stole the gods : a true story of war, obsession, and a global art conspiracy / Matthew Campbell.

The price of exclusion : the pursuit of healthcare in a segregated nation / Nicole Carr.

How bright the path grows : the untold story of the women who made the March on Washington / Marcia Chatelain.

The forever paycheck : the new retirement strategy to spend more, worry less, and never run out of money / Jean Chatzky.

Rules to live by : how extraordinary lives define what really matters / Jimmy Chin with Daniel Duane.

Plot twist : life, craft, and the messy first draft / Harlan Coben.

The day after : how to wield power in a post-Trump world / Brian Tyler Cohen foreword by Marc Elias.

Gowanus crossing : a Brooklyn boyhood / Vincent Coppola.

Dead bees still sting : tales of life at the edge of nature / Susan Cormier.

Homemaking with Babs : tips and tricks for making a house a home / Barbara Costello photographs by Dane Tashima.

Backtalker : an American memoir / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw.

The case for quitting : the surprising benefits of opting out / Lindsay Crouse.

Marilyn and her books : the literary life of Marilyn Monroe / Gail Crowther.

Party for one : perfectly portioned recipes just for you / Meredith Dawson with Emily Stephenson photographs by Ghazalle Badiozamani.

The impossible factory : the remarkable true story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's innovation machine / Josh Dean.

Profits, prophets, coaches, and kings : (when) do leaders matter? / Jared Diamond.

Live laugh love : the secret history of white Christian women and the world they made / Kristin Kobes Du Mez.

Situated : find the people and places that bring out your best / Angela Duckworth.

Estrogen, interrupted : a guide to surviving and thriving in perimenopause / Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su, MD, and Amy Voedisch, MD.

The girls who beat the odds : stories of women who changed the course of sports history / Mari K. Eder.

Into the wood chipper : a whistleblower's account of how the Trump administration shredded USAID / Nicholas Enrich with a foreword by Atul Gawande.

A time to gather : how ritual created the world--and how it can save us / Bruce Feiler.

I want to be famous : when everybody and nobody is a celebrity / Robert Finger and Lindsey Weber.

Grill time! : why you should be grilling for better, healthier, easier, and more delicious meals / Noah Galuten photographs by Kristin Teig.

In the mood to bake : extraordinary treats from Lily P Crumbs / Alex George.

This cursed beautiful land : a Russian-American story / Evan Gershkovich.

Man in the mirror : hope, struggle and belonging in an American city / Anand Giridharadas.

The American way of killing : the invention of an epidemic / Malcolm Gladwell.

The hormone loop : an empowering guide to restoring hormonal harmony, from puberty to menopause / Dr. Gillian Goddard [foreword by Emily Oster].

Ancient myths & legends without men / Mara Gold.

Athens and Sparta : the rivalry that shaped ancient Greece / Adrian Goldsworthy.

Unleashed : how to bring out the best in your dog / Jaime Goodrich.

Start with yourself : a new vision for work & life / Emma Grede.

How to watch soccer like a genius : what architects, stuntwomen, paleoanthropologists, and computer scientists reveal about the world's game / Nick Greene.

The invisible list : one passion a year, every year / Ravi Gupta.

Carla bakes : sweet, savory, and from the heart / Carla Hall with Lauren Chattman photography by Doaa Elkady.

The bookshop woman / Nanako Hanada translated by Cat Anderson.

The counterrevolution : the fall and rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement / Victor Davis Hanson.

Tiger v. Jack : golf's great debate / Bob Harig.

How to deal with your ( ) so your kids don't have to* : an encyclopedia for ditching your emotional baggage / Eli Hardwood, MA, LPC.

Medesque : everyday recipes with Mediterranean roots / Georgina Hayden.

The only thing there is to want : a memoir of three loves / Sarah Hepola.

Gertie Sews Glam Knits: Turn Simple Techniques Into Showstopping Designs / Gretchen Hirsch.

The thyroid fix : the no-nonsense guide to fix fatigue, fogginess, and fat that won't budge / Dr. Amie Hornaman.

Protocols: an operating manual for the human body / Andrew D. Huberman, PhD with Jessica Wapner.

Supermajority : how Democrats can build lasting power / Adam Jentleson.

Glorious country : how the artist Frederic Church brought the world to America and America to the world / Victoria Johnson.

Backslide : reclaiming a faith and a nation after the Christian turn against democracy / Robert P. Jones.

The perilous fight / Colin Kaepernick with Nick Chiles.

How to try again : an approachable guide to navigating chaos and making change that sticks / Steve Kamb.

Shadow before the flame : the Hindenburg disaster and the prelude to war / Catherine Grace Katz.

The museum of lost things : true tales of fabled treasures, legendary cities, and mythical creatures that vanished from history / Sam Kean.

No land to stand on : notes from detention / Mahmoud Khalil.

Mayo clinic guide to gut health : restore your microbiome, enhance digestion, and improve your health from the inside out / Sahil Khanna, M.B.B.S.

Obstinate daughters : the rebels, writers, and renegade women who ignited the American Revolution / Denise Kiernan.

The book of pizza : recipes for every pizza maker / King Arthur Baking Company, Martin Philip and David Tamarkin with Jessica Battilana, Yekaterina Boytsova and Ryan Salerno.

End times fascism : and the fight for the living world / Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor.

The vanishing family : love, fate, and the quest to end dementia / Robert Kolker.

The sane one : a memoir / Anna Konkle.

The butterfly season : what 64 butterflies taught me about nature's great mysteries and the meaning of life / Lea Korsgaard.

Oversharing : anytime snacks, everyday dinners & cooking for company / Cortney LaCorte.

My story : a spiritual and intellectual autobiography / John C. Lennox.

Mayo Clinic guide to a healthy, happy heart : simple steps to achieving long-term cardiovascular health / Amir Lerman, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, and Kyla M. Lara-Breitinger.

Holding lightning : the life, loves, and art of Whitney Houston / Emily Lordi.

Noticing : intimate encounters with the natural world / Richard Louv photographs by the author.

Fictional selves : a memoir / Kyle MacLachlan.

Redwood : the untold story of the Cold War's most extraordinary spy / Ben Macintyre.

Hidden creatures : luscious leeches, bashful botflies, and the wondrous, history-shaping world of parasites / by Dino J. Martins.

The common good economy : how to make capitalism work for us all / Mariana Mazzucato.

Bake anything : essential recipes and techniques to build on for endless exciting possibilities / Erin Jeanne McDowell photography by Nico Schinco.

An inconvenient woman : the extraordinary life of Lillian Smith, the southerner who defied Jim Crow America / Keri Leigh Merritt foreword by Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II.

What could possibly go right? : the essential journey to scale an enduring culture / Danny Meyer.

My battlefield : a life broken and made whole / Joyce Meyer.

Push the wall : my life, writing, drawing, and the art of storytelling / Frank Miller.

The cure at Walden Pond : a guide to recovering our humanity / Thomas Moore.

I choose my beginning : a story of courage and activism / Nadia Murad with Jenna Krajeski.

Food is a feeling : recipes and stories, with love / Carla Lalli Music photographs by Lucia Bell-Epstein.

Happy snacking, don't die! : foraging & vegan recipes with Black Forager / Alexis Nikole Nelson with Jeanelle Hayner Olson photography by JB Douglas.

Mother tongue : a memoir / Sara Novic.

Main, middle & gay : a chef finds his place in the world against all odds / Patrick O'Connell.

Confronting America : what has to change / Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer.

Darkness becomes bright : on the brief life and immortal art of Edgar Allan Poe / Emily Ogden.

American caesar : how theocrats and tech lords are turning America into a monarchy / Bradley B. Onishi, PhD.

Thomas Jefferson survives : American independence in his time and ours / Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano.

Spawning season : an experiment in queer parenthood / Joseph Osmundson.

This is me : a reckoning / Hayden Panettiere.

The art of fighting : the transformative power of conflict / Priya Parker.

1942 : crux of war / Jonathan Parshall.

Freedom round the globe : a world history of the American Revolution / Sarah M. S. Pearsall.

The LORAfied cookbook : easy recipes and budget-friendly hacks to feed the whole family / Lora McLaughlin Peterson with Susan Puckett.

Your OCD will hate this book : a proven system to overcome obsessive-compulsive disorder and take back your life / Nathan Peterson, LCSW.

Beginners' Hungarian / Zsuzsa Pontifex.

The creatures' guide to caring : how animal parents teach us that humans were born to care / Elizabeth Preston.

Dog's day : the true story of a bank robbery, gay liberation, and toxic love that inspired a Hollywood classic / Matthew J. Prigge.

Never say die : a memoir / Ke Huy Quan.

The hero next door : stories of patriotism and purpose / Martha Raddatz.

Yakuza : a 400-year history of the Japanese underworld / Andrew Rankin.

A perfect coincidence : the extraordinary friendship and astonishing deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson / Jim Rasenberger.

Two ships : Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the struggle for the soul of America / David S. Reynolds.

Alexander : god, king, man / Edmund Richardson.

Ash and honor : the untold 368 minutes of 9/11 / Jeffrey Robinson.

Work in progress : a memoir / Devon Rodriguez.

Hotel exile : Paris in the shadow of war / Jane Rogoyska.

An inconvenient widow : the torment, trial, and triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln / Lois Romano.

Think less, sleep more : from panic & perfectionism to stress-free sleep / Stephanie Romiszewski.

Bad boy for life : the rise and fall of Sean Combs / Cheyenne Roundtree.

Why you should read children's books, even though you are so old and wise / Katherine Rundell.

All the wrong moves : how three catastrophic decisions led to the rise of Trump / Anthony Scaramucci.

Aging out : an exploration of caregiving, community, and how Americans grow old / Lucy Schiller.

The cauldron : the making of the modern Middle East / Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Morbid Kuriosity's strange and unexplained incidents / Abin Tom Sebastian.

Veg everything : recipes for weeknights, parties, and the bites in between / Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times Cooking.

How to kill a language : power, resistance, and the race to save our words / Sophia Smith Galer.

The city without Jews life and death in Nazi Vienna / Douglas Smith.

I once knew a guy named Charlie : a memoir / Jaclyn Smith.

Redeem a nation : the century-long battle to restore the soul of America / Damario Solomon-Simmons.

Meals you can't mess up / Shay Spence.

Swan song : Diana, my sister / Charles Spencer.

The fourth branch : how state government can save our union / Daniel Squadron.

Lost and found : a compassionate guide to homeownership / Mercury Stardust.

An unexpected life : a memoir / Gloria Steinem.

Ammazza! : culinary adventures from New York to Italy and back again / Hillary Sterling with Theresa Gambacorta photography by Kelly Puleio.

How to not know : the value of uncertainty in a world that demands answers / Simone Stolzoff.

I disagree : winning arguments without losing friends / Jessica Tarlov.

Making peace with what I can't control : find relief from the exhaustion of overthinking, trying to fix others, and wanting to figure it all out / Lysa TerKeurst.

Eat (like) the rich / Olivia Tiedemann with Rachel Holtzman Photography by Marcus Nilsson.

Actually, nevermind : essays / Taylor Tomlinson.

The new autoimmune protocol : the complete guide to managing autoimmune disease, with 75 delicious recipes / Mickey Trescott.

Artificial intimacy : who we become when we talk to machines / Sherry Turkle.

Lost in space : 5,000 facts for navigating the universe / Neil Degrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker.

Torched : how a city was left to burn, and the Olympic rush to rebuild L.A. / Jonathan Vigliotti.

Renaissance dogs : a litter of hilarious pups, mutts, and hounds / Taylor Wagmore.

The steal : four right-wing hard-liners, one Republican presidency, and the raid on America's courts / Alex Wagner.

On witness and respair : essays / Jesmyn Ward.

Valley of death : how big tech is fueling the future of war / Sharon Weinberger.

Profiles in cowardice : a study of collaboration in the Trump era / Jacob Weisberg.

Our wild familiars : how animals are adapting to cities and reshaping the natural world / Dan Werb.

Crossing the wine-dark sea : journeys through ancient literature / Emily Wilson.

I eat the stars : how to live fully and beautifully in a collapsing world / Sarah Wilson.

Where the music had to go : how Bob Dylan and the Beatles changed each other—and the world / Jim Windolf.

The rebel diet meal prep cookbook / Benji Xavier

The everywhere millionaire : who is really rich in America and how they got there / Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick.

Tell me where it hurts : the new science of pain and how to heal / Rachel Zoffness, PhD.