New Adult Nonfiction & Biography

Updated May 29, 2026
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After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace
Polito, Robert
Paper Book
Wall Street Journal -- "What to Read: 10 Best Books of February" Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, "If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?" A familiar narrative goes:...
Blank space : a cultural history of the twenty-first century
Marx, W. David
Paper Book
Over the past twenty-five years, pop culture has suffered from a perplexing lack of reinvention. We've entered a cultural 'blank space' - an era when reboots, rehashes, and fads flourish, while bold artistic experimentation struggles to gain recognition. Why is risk no longer rewarded, and how did...
Famesick : a memoir
Dunham, Lena
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been...
The Flower Bearers
Griffiths, Rachel Eliza
Paper Book
"This singular memoir stunned me. With a poet's precision, Rachel Eliza Griffiths renders two interwoven tragedies few others could have lived through, much less written about with such clear-eyed candor."--Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars' Club...
Getting Lost on My Way: Self-Discovery on Ireland's Backroads
Hartman, Diane
Paper Book
When an introverted, divorced, middle-aged mother and school librarian from the Midwest decides to leave her comfort zone and travel alone to Ireland, her desire to fulfill her dream overcomes her fear as she immerses herself into what will become an adventure of courage and self-discovery....
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
Epstein, David
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fascinating stories. . . . Boxing ourselves in may be the ultimate way to think outside the box." --Wall Street Journal "I thought David Epstein's first two books were brilliant, but Inside the Box is his best. I'll never...
Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly
Bourdain, Anthony
Paper Book
A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo inserts Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat Before Reading This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no...
London falling : a mysterious death in a gilded city and a family's search for truth
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling, prizewinning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which...
Pcos Is My Power: Understanding Pcos, Fixing Your Hormones, and Resetting Your Health
Ruth, Cory
Paper Book
The first complete guide to thriving with PCOS (aka PMOS), offering a science-backed, holistic path to managing symptoms, plus 68 recipes and 6 meal plans Rapid weight gain at puberty, a dodgy period that you'd almost rather not show up, or cystic acne that you were told was just...
The psychology of money : timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Housel, Morgan
Paper Book
**OVER 10 MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD... The Psychology of Money is the original bestselling classic from the author of the new book, The Art of Spending Money.** Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And...
The second emancipation : Nkrumah, pan-Africanism, and global Blackness at high tide
French, Howard W.
Paper Book
The Second Emancipation, the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when...
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