Book Recommendations for Nonfiction

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The Book of Birds

A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss

by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the best-selling authors of The Lost Words, a dazzling celebration of endangered birds.

So Many Stars

An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

by Caro De Robertis

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Award-winning novelist Caro De Robertis offers a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of queer and trans elders of color, from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens to tell their stories of ...

Murderland

Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

by Caroline Fraser

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic ...

The Dry Season

A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

by Melissa Febos

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the national bestselling author of Girlhood, an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes Melissa Febos discovered during a year of celibacy. A wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.

The Afterlife of Malcolm X

An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America

by Mark Whitaker

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.

1873

The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World

by Liaquat Ahamed

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind.

The Land and Its People

Essays

by David Sedaris

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In this new collection, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend, in essays that are "among the best of his career" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Banned Together

Our Fight for Readers' Rights

by Ashley Hope Pérez

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling YA anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators.

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