Best Books to Gift 2025 - Adult Nonfiction

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Updated November 26, 2025
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Best Books to Gift 2025 - Adult Nonfiction

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Future boy : Back to the Future and my journey through the space-time continuum
Fox, Michael J.
Paper Book
A marriage at sea a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
Elmhirst, Sophie
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE "This is nonfiction that reads like fiction - the best kind....
Mother Mary comes to me
Roy, Arundhati
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy,...
The art spy : the extraordinary untold tale of WWII resistance hero Rose Valland
Young, Michelle
Paper Book
A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, THE ART SPY uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the cultural legacy of the West. On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position...
Between two rivers : ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history
Al-Rashid, Moudhy N.
Paper Book
The Breath of the Gods: ; The History and Future of the Wind
Winchester, Simon.
Paper Book
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Dalrymple, William.
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas...
Motherland: A Feminist History Of Modern Russia, From Revolution To Autocracy
Ioffe, Julia.
Paper Book
'A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine 'A century of Russian history told through the women who lived it, shaped it, and survived it' NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA, founder of Pussy Riot Award...
The Place of Tides
Rebanks, James.
Paper Book
We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that...
1929 : Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Sorkin, Andrew Ross
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "It is one of the best narrative histories I've read." --The Wall Street Journal Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 by TIME, The Economist, and Bloomberg From the bestselling author of Too...
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse And What To Do About It
Doctorow, Cory.
Paper Book
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...
More everything forever : AI overlords, space empires, and Silicon Valley's crusade to control the fate of humanity
Becker, Adam
Paper Book
This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley's heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions--with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth--are about oligarchic power, not preparing for the future ...
Murderland : crime and bloodlust in the time of serial killers
Fraser, Caroline
Paper Book
Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history. As Murderland maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers, Fraser uncovers an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction. Evidence mounts that the plumes of lead,...
Forest euphoria : the abounding queerness of nature
Kaishian, Patricia Ononiwu
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * TIME 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2025 "An antidote to the loneliness of our species."--ROBIN WALL KIMMERER "A master class in how to love the world."--MARGARET RENKL A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the...
Is A River Alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025 From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book - which answers a resounding yes to...
The Mind Electric: ; Stories of the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains
Anand, Pria.
Paper Book
Replaceable You: Adventures In Human Anatomy
Roach, Mary.
Paper Book
Dead And Alive: ; Essays
Smith, Zadie.
Paper Book
An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith 'Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and exactly' - Tessa Hadley,...
John & Paul : a love story in songs
Leslie, Ian
Paper Book
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* "We think we know everything, but author Ian Leslie proves otherwise. His new book, 'John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,' is, astonishingly, one of the few to offer a detailed narrative of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's...
Aflame : learning from silence
Iyer, Pico
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Reading Aflame may help many to lead lives of greater compassion and deeper peace of mind." --His Holiness the Dalai Lama From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to...
The book of alchemy : a creative practice for an inspired life
Jaouad, Suleika
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A guide to the art of journaling--and a meditation on the central questions of life--by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, George Saunders, and many more<...
Moral ambition
Bregman, Rutger.
Ebook
Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
Brown, Brene.
Paper Book
Tiny Experiments: ; How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Le Cunff, Anne-Laure.
Paper Book
A transformative guide to rethinking our approach to goals, creativity and life itself from a neuroscientist and entrepreneur
The Anthony Bourdain Reader : New Classic, and Rediscovered Writing
Bourdain, Anthony/ Keefe, Patrick Radden (INT)/ Witherspoon, Kimberly (EDT)
Paper Book
The definitive, career-spanning collection of writing from Anthony Bourdain, assembled for the first time in book form Anthony Bourdain represented many things to many people--and he had many sides. But no part of his identity was more important to him, and more long-lasting, than that of...
Good Things: Recipes to Share with People You Love
Nosrat, Samin.
Paper Book
Once I hand them off to you, these recipes are no longer mine. They're yours, to do with as you please. And maybe, in the act of receiving, a little thread of connection will be woven between me and each of you. How can a recipe express the joy of sharing a meal in...
Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Roman, Alison.
Paper Book
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