New Adult Nonfiction & Biography

Updated August 8, 2025
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Against the Machine : On the Unmaking of Humanity
Kingsnorth, Paul
Paper Book
How a force that's hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original--and terrifying--account of...
All down darkness wide : a memoir
Hewitt, Seán
Paper Book
Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature * Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness * Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed * A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read * Observer Book of the Week *...
All our ordinary stories : a multigenerational family odyssey
Wong, Teresa
Paper Book
Beginning with her mother's stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journey through time and place to locate the beginnings of the disconnection she feels from her parents. Through a series of stories - some epic, like her mother and father's daring escapes from communes during China's...
Always delicious low-FODMAP kitchen
Glentis, Chrissy
Paper Book
Bring back the joy of eating with these flavour-packed recipes for those who suffer from food allergies or intolerances - and even those who don't!
I am Ozzy
Osbourne, Ozzy
Paper Book
Has there ever been a more extraordinary rock-star story than Ozzy Osbourne's? Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept in one room, Ozzy endured a tough upbringing. Music was his salvation and his band Black Sabbath went on to change the music scene forever. But along with the rock...
Amy Winehouse : in her words
Winehouse, Amy
Paper Book
The Estate of Amy Winehouse will donate 100% of the advance and royalties it receives from the production and sale of this book to The Amy Winehouse Foundation. These funds will help assist the charity in continuing their vital work helping thousands of young people to feel supported in managing...
Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder
McFaul, Michael
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a bold, clear-eyed look at how the autocracies of China and Russia are challenging the current global order, and how America's future depends on successfully confronting this threat. The rise...
Bearing Witness Prison Stories from a Woman's Fight Against Fascism
Targa, Mercedes N©ð©łez.
Paper Book
'Thanks to this superb translation, English-language readers finally have access to a classic work of prison literature that has played a major role in keeping alive the memory of the crimes of Franco'-Paul Preston, historian and author of Architects of Terror This is the story of a woman...
Climate injustice : why we need to fight global inequailty to combat climate change
Otto, Friederike
Paper Book
"I can't recommend this book highly enough. It will change how you think about the most important story of our time."--JEFF GOODELL, New York Times bestselling author of The Heat Will Kill You First From one of the world's most celebrated thinkers on climate...
The Compleat Angler
Brookes, Gareth/ Walton, Izaak
Paper Book
An ambitious multimedia adaptation of a well-known and much-beloved classic of 17th-century literature, fit for lovers of art, nature, and the philosophy of fishing A foundational environmentalist text centuries ahead of its time, The Compleat Angler is one...
The conquest of bread
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kni͡azʹ
Paper Book
'Well-being for all is not a dream.' In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed relevance and...
Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-Of-Age
Badgley, Penn
Paper Book
In the debut essay collection from the hosts of the hit podcast Podcrushed, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin explore what it means to come of age at every stage of our lives. Known for spotlighting your favorite artists' tween stories of self-discovery on...
Djuna : the extraordinary life of Djuna Barnes
Macy, Jon
Paper Book
2025 Eisner Award Nominee! A graphic biography of Djuna Barnes: writer, artist, and queer radical of the Lost Generation in the Roaring 20s. Djuna Barnes lived in a dazzling world filled with literary salons, innovative writing, and daring new art styles. But it didn't come easily....
Eat Yourself Healthy: Food to Change Your Life
Oliver, Jamie.
Paper Book
Looking after yourself begins with food. In Eat Yourself Healthy, Jamie's 120 easy, mouthwatering recipes will energise, satisfy, nourish and revitalise. This is all about what you can have, not what you can't. Jamie's healthy eating is joyful, generous and so tasty you'll keep...
Elon Musk: American Oligarch
Cunningham, Darryl
Paper Book
An unvarnished, critical graphic biography of the tech innovator and presidential confidant by the author/illustrator of Putin's Russia- The Rise of a Dictator and Billionaires- The Lives of the Rich and Powerful. Darryl Cunningham's new graphic biography of Elon...
Empire of the elite : inside Condé Nast, the media dynasty that reshaped America
Grynbaum, Michael M.
Paper Book
From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through the 2000s. For decades, Condé Nast and its...
Enshittification : Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Doctorow, Cory.
Paper Book
Enshittification: it's not just you--the internet sucks now. Here's why, and here's how we can disenshittify it. We're living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit...
Face with tears of joy : a natural history of emoji
Houston, Keith
Paper Book
We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji's impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in the...
For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
Jamalpour, Fatemeh
Paper Book
A moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists "Unlike anything I've read . . . A searing, courageous, and ultimately beautiful book filled with the spirit of the movement that it covers." --Ben...
Ghosts of Hiroshima
Pellegrino, Charles
Paper Book
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES CAMERON From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Her Name and Titanic, this stunning hardcover edition includes sprayed edges, printed end sheets, and interior illustrations, and arrives on the...
How fascism works : the politics of us and them
Stanley, Jason
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "No single book is as relevant to the present moment."-Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen "With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs....
How to lose your mother : a daughter's memoir
Jong-Fast, Molly
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller "With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoir's transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you won't just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share." --...
It's only drowning : a true story of learning to surf and the search for common ground
Litt, David
Paper Book
* A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2025 * TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2025 * A former Obama speechwriter moves to the Jersey Shore and learns to surf with the help of his brother-in-law: a tattooed, truck-driving Joe Rogan...
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
"Electrifying... A spellbinding new account of the star's final days by the world's greatest thriller writer." -- Daily Mail With unparalleled ambition, instinctual physicality, keen business intelligence, and a remarkable sense of humor, Marilyn...
Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe
Weymouth, Adam.
Paper Book
From the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award comes an epic walk across the Alps in the footsteps of a wolf, throwing unique light on Europe's mountainous hinterlands at a moment of political and environmental change. In 2011, a young wolf named...
A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
Elmhirst, Sophie
Paper Book
"This is nonfiction that reads like fiction - the best kind. Elmhirst's retelling is a triumph, second only to the seemingly impossible feat of Maurice and Maralyn themselves. You won't be able to put it down." - USA Today "Remarkable... I found myself, alternately, holding my...
The mission : the CIA in the 21st century
Weiner, Tim
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 * A New York Times Editors' Choice "No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win Weiner a second Pulitzer." --The Guardian A masterpiece of reporting based on-the-record...
The Northwomen : untold stories from the other half of the viking world
Pringle, Heather
Paper Book
For fans of provocative history and "Game of Thrones" alike, this revisionist narrative reveals how the little-known women of the Viking era shaped their world. Until Scandinavia converted to Christianity and came under the rule of powerful kings, the Vikings were a dominant...
Q&a
Tomine, Adrian
Paper Book
Everything you wanted to know about storytelling or Adrian Tomine but were too afraid to ask "That would've been too easy and spontaneous for me, and I had to find a way to make everything more complicated." And yet for over thirty years, bestselling author,...
Rental person who does nothing : a memoir
Morimoto, Shoji
Paper Book
Profiled in The Times, The Independent and by BBC ReelsI'm starting a service . . . available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there's a restaurant you want to go to, but you feel awkward going on your own.Maybe a game you want to play, but you're one person...
The sacred balance : rediscovering our place in nature
Suzuki, David
Paper Book
"The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit."--E.O. Wilson With a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times-bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass--and an afterword from Bill McKibben--this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved...
Shade : The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Bloch, Sam
Paper Book
An extraordinary investigation into shade, this "compelling . . . conversation-starter draws examples from history, city-planning and social policy" (NPR) to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all. On a 90-degree day in Los...
A short history of Canada
Morton, Desmond.
Paper Book
“Canadians believe that their history is short, boring and irrelevant. They are wrong on all counts.” – Desmond Morton, from the Introduction Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history...
Think faster, talk smarter : how to speak successfully when you're put on the spot
Abrahams, Matt
Paper Book
Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations--from public speaking to interviewing to networking--with these essential strategies from a Stanford lecturer, coach, and host of the popular Think Fast, Talk Smart The Podcast. "A road...
Vertigo : the rise and fall of Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
Jähner, Harald
Paper Book
*An Observer Book of the Year, 2024* 'This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons for the world now...
When death takes something from you give it back : Carl's book
Aidt, Naja Marie
Paper Book
An unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother's grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language.  Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Translation In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a...
Who deserves your love : how to create boundaries to start, strengthen, or end any relationship
Davis, KC
Paper Book
A practical and gentle guide to navigating the difficult relationships that shape your life, from KC Davis, beloved therapist and bestselling author of How to Keep House While Drowning. Just as her bestseller How to Keep House While Drowning helped...
Women Living Deliciously
Given, Florence.
Paper Book
ARE YOU READY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR LIFE? THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A bold and empowering exploration of self-love... Think of it as a winter shot of self-esteem' GLAMOUR ...

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