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:...
I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything
Stern, Joanna
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What happens when intelligent machines aren't just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids? You've heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every...
American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed
Fitzgerald, Isaac
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * New York Times bestselling author Isaac Fitzgerald sets off into the heart of America, following the path of the legendary Johnny Appleseed on an epic journey that both takes him far from home and brings him closer to it. "Rollicking,...
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...
Burn the haystack : decode dating, torch the duds, and make room for men who matter.
Young, PhD, Jennie
Paper Book
USA TODAY AND NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER! It's time for a dating revolution! How do you find a needle in a haystack You burn the haystack to the ground. Among Dr. Jennie Young's legion of fans, the "needle" is a long-term, committed partner...
Europe: A New History
Beaton, Roderick
Paper Book
A bold new history of Europe, from ancient Greece to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. "A true tour de force." --Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads   What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by...
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 Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh
Lasdun, James
Paper Book
In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son at Moselle, their home in South Carolina's Lowcountry. By then, the story had become headline news across the country, with its revelations of corruption in high places, massive fraud, opioid abuse, fake suicides,...
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...
Ghost Stories: A Memoir
Hustvedt, Siri
Paper Book
A searing memoir of love and grief centered around the loss of Siri Hustvedt's husband, Paul Auster. "Genuinely moving...Hustvedt's book is like Didion's [The Year of Magical Thinking] in tone...a grainy and resonant book about loneliness, despair, and confusion. It's...
Homesick Nomad: Settling Into an Untethered Life
Madia, Brianna
Paper Book
"Madia's adventurous tales transcend their rugged terrain, telling, at the crux of it all, very human stories"--The Source New York Times bestselling author of Nowhere for Very Long and Never Leave the Dogs Behind Brianna Madia considers...
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: 25th Anniversary edition
Bourdain, Anthony.
Paper Book
A new, deluxe edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain. The book will feature a brand new introduction, a Q&A with Ecco publisher and Bourdain's long-time editor Daniel Halpern. Interior pages are hand-annotated by Anthony Bourdain himself. The interior will also...
London falling : a mysterious death in a corrupt 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 pilgrimage : a contemporary quest for ancient wisdom
Coelho, Paulo.
Paper Book
Este libro es la confirmación de que uno mismo es el señor de sus pasos, el dueño absoluto de su camino, el arquitecto de su sueño. Es un libro sobre la determinación. El primer libro escrito por Paulo Coelho, el autor de El Alquimista, en esta edición es conmemorativa del...
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...
Rasputin : the downfall of the Romanovs
Beevor, Antony
"This story of credulous, out-of-touch monarchs steering their country into disaster never loses its sinister appeal."--The New York Times "A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy."--The Sunday Times From one of our most...
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