New Adult Nonfiction & Biography

Updated January 9, 2026
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The age of diagnosis : sickness, health and why medicine has gone too far
O'Sullivan, Suzanne
Paper Book
***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, LONDON STANDARD, NEW STATESMAN AND IRISH TIMES 'Revelatory. Slices...
The book of home how-to : complete photo guide to home repair + improvement
Paper Book
Keep your home in tip-top shape and up to code with this comprehensive 500+-page reference with full-color, step-by-step photographic instruction for thousands of repair and maintenance jobs. The most complete book on the market for homeowners, BLACK+DECKER The Book of...
Book of Making 2026: Projects for Makers and Hackers
Makers of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine, The
Paper Book
The future is here, and it's digital. It's in the electronics that make devices work: the sensors, the motors, and the logic that controls them. It's in the 3D printed plastic parts, and the CNC-machined wood and aluminium. If you want to build something in the modern age, you need...
Future boy : Back to the Future and my journey through the space-time continuum
Fox, Michael J.
Paper Book
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...
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI
Yudkowsky, Eliezer.
Paper Book
Is A River Alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
At its heart is a single, transformative idea- that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings - who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young 'Rights of Nature' movement, Macfarlane takes the reader on an...
Island Knitting: Beautiful Knitting Patterns Inspired by Coastal Landscapes : ITEM ON ORDER
Erika Åberg, Erika Åberg
Paper Book
Embark on a knitting journey through the captivating landscapes of Shetland, the Hebrides, Gotland and Blidö with best-selling author and knitwear designer Erika Åberg (@wynja).  This stunning book features 20 timeless patterns inspired by the sea, wind and spirit of each island...
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 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE "This is nonfiction that...
Mother Mary comes to me
Roy, Arundhati
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 WINNER OF THE GOOGLE PLAY BEST OF 2025 AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
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,...
The new age of sexism : how the AI revolution is reinventing misogyny
Bates, Laura
Paper Book
'Laura Bates explains how they built the future - and forgot to put women in it' CAITLIN MORAN 'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND 'All men must read this book if they have any interest in a truly just, fair and equal...
No more tears : the dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Harris, Gardiner
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . An explosive, deeply reported expose of Johnson & Johnson, one of America's oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies-from an award-winning investigative journalist "A damning portrait."-Associated Press "A page-turning...
Nobody's girl : a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice
Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell "Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which...
One day, everyone will have always been against this
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER * LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM * From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful...
Raising hare
Dalton, Chloe
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION, HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST...
Taylor's Version
Burt, Stephanie
Paper Book
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Li, Yiyun.
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2025 'Unforgettable' SUNDAY TIMES 'Courageous' OBSERVER 'One of the most important...
The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Weller, Francis
Ebook
Hope and healing for a profoundly fractured world--a pathway home to the brightness, pains, and gifts of being alive The bestselling book on grief and loss from psychotherapist Francis Weller: "One of the best books on grief I have ever read. ... It helped me turn to and understand...

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