New Adult Nonfiction & Biography

Updated July 10, 2026
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The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
MacFarlane, Robert
Paper Book
The Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique spirit of nearly fifty once-common species: avocet to yellowhammer, kestrel to kingfisher, skylark to...
Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America
Murphy, Chris
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller A prominent senator assesses the destructive ideas that have seized the American spirit--and shows how the hidden alignments in our politics can free us from their hold. Today, the United States is in a crisis--and it's...
The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government
McQuade, Barbara
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade offers a piercing, urgent, and deeply informed expose on the escalating threat of far-right politics to American democracy and national security-and a clear roadmap for how to stop it. In The Fix...
Ghost Girl: Surviving the Black Swan Murder--A Memoir
Benefield, Eva
Paper Book
Eva Benefield, the daughter of the victim of the viral "Black Swan Murder," describes coming of age amid grief, violence, and a true-crime spectacle, in a poignant memoir "relatable to anyone who's experienced grief or witnessed evil up close. Eva tells her story with grace and even humor in...
The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
Wright, Robert
Paper Book
From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence--as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose. The...
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
Crabapple, Molly
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund--a revolutionary movement from a vanished world--and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. "Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound...
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...
Mother Tongue: A Memoir
Novic, Sara
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of True Biz retraces her path out of the hearing world and into the deaf community--and seeks to understand what it means to raise children who are different from her--in this emotionally rich memoir. "In this enraging history and...
On witness and respair : essays
Ward, Jesmyn
Paper Book
The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From the two-time National...
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Hayes, Kelly
Paper Book
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes  In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable. Campaigns will be lost. Mental health crises will occur. Social...
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman
"Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre...the book is packed with news that will stay news...This is reporting of consequence." --David Remnick, The New Yorker "A flabbergasting feat of political reporting." --Tina Brown
Unburdened : a memoir
Kemsley, Dorit
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley comes a candid memoir in which she reveals the unscripted moments that shaped who she is today. Dorit Kemsley has spent years cultivating a persona that exudes...
View from the East Wing : a memoir
Biden, Jill
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Included in "The Nonfiction Books Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer" by The New York Times A novelist once wrote, "There are stories one must tell, and years when one must tell them." Jill Biden's time to...
What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast
Chambers, Caroline
Following the breakout success of the New York Times bestselling What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking, Substack star Caroline Chambers returns with a new cookbook offering 100 more recipes for busy people who love good food--and these can be made even faster!
The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers
Barragan, Carlos
Paper Book
A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 A People Best Book of June | A USA Today Most Anticipated Summer Read "What [Barragán has] produced feels miraculous: journalism that is simultaneously funny, devastating, wildly...

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