Best Books to Gift 2025 - Adult Nonfiction

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Updated November 26, 2025
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1929 inside the greatest crash in Wall Street history-- and how it shattered a nation
Sorkin, Andrew Ross
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...
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
A National Bestseller * A Washington Post Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Forbes and NPR * A finalist for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction "Scorching, seductive . . . A superb and disturbing vivisection of our darkest urges." -...
Replaceable you : adventures in human anatomy
Roach, Mary
Paper Book
The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet...

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