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The Big Fall Nonfiction Roundup
Truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and judging by this fall’s genuinely intriguing slate of nonfiction titles, it’s the stone-cold truth.
You’ll find a particularly wide variety of fascinating topics this season, including lady poisoners, 19th-century outlaws, sentient volcanoes, dubious cybercurrency initiatives, space aliens, and one exceptionally cute owl.
This time around, we’ve sorted the books into some general subgenre categories: celebrity memoirs, history, nature, essays…like that. All of the books listed below are either on shelves now or publishing before the end of the calendar year.
Among the high-profile memoirs coming down the pike, we’ve got new books by Britney Spears, Leslie Jones, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and the man behind Jean-Luc Picard. On the biography shelf, look for new book-length profiles of Madonna, Tupac Skakur, and the world’s richest man.
So browse around, click through the book cover images for more details about each title, and add any interesting leads to your Want to Read shelf.
General Memoirs
Celebrity Memoirs
History & General Biographies
Nature
Science & Tech
Essays
Sociology
True Crime
Which new nonfiction are you most excited about? Tell us about it in the comments below!
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To be fair, I’m not a massive fan of non-fiction, but at least one (unreliable narrator) looks really good!It is nice to see some attention thrown this way as (this is including me) I think some people are biased towards non-fiction because it’s facts… but if it’s well written then I’m happy to try :D
Yaaresse wrote: "Glad to see non-fiction get some attention, and I'm glad to see non-fiction expanded beyond just celebrity memoirs and self-help/pop psychology.Totally agree. I really like to read fiction (all kinds of genres, paper and digital books, audiobooks, comics and graphic novels), but I also enjoy non-fiction (all kinds of genres, paper and digital books, audiobooks, comics and graphic novels (i.e. just started in The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood)).
Looking forward to Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (also), and How to Draw a Novel.
Yaaresse wrote: "Not only is it impossible to do a truly objective biography of someone still in the prime of their life (not to mention in the middle of their sociopathic trolling of the world), but 600+ pages of that egotistical loon sounds insufferable."
😂😂😂😂😂 Also agree!
I don’t know what’s happened to the Goodreads algorithm. It used to recommend things I would actually want to read. It included books that may have been difficult to find in a library or your local bookstore. Now it is stuff the masses are reading. A lot of the recommendations seem to be part of the sordid, misguided indoctrination going on in the West at this point in history. I’m no sheeple, Goodreads.
L wrote: "I don’t know what’s happened to the Goodreads algorithm. It used to recommend things I would actually want to read. It included books that may have been difficult to find in a library or your local..."Amen.
L wrote: "I don’t know what’s happened to the Goodreads algorithm. It used to recommend things I would actually want to read. It included books that may have been difficult to find in a library or your local..."Goodreads is owned by Amazon, Amazon want you to buy the books that they recommend from the authors and publishing houses they have deals/relationships with.
Thanks for including my book on this list! I'm so happy to see it amongst such wonderful company!
Why do the Elon Musk & Lady Poisoners books need two slots?Saying that The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women is one of the two books that look interesting to me. (the other being Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession)
Aaaaannnnnd, my to be read list just got bigger.
Love that nonfiction is featured here because I'm currently exploring that genre with the book I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad! After that I really want to look into nature nonfiction so I appreciate your selection.I'm a little disappointed though that the true crime section is so small and that you had to put Elon and league of lady poisoners twice there, I'm sure there were other books that could have been featured as well.
They aren't new, but here are some of my favorite nonfictions:Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
The Glass Castle
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Glad to see both non fiction and especially true crime get some attention!!
Yes to non-fiction! We are living at a time where we can finally read truth about the marginalized and disenfranchised even as book banning is on the rise. One of the best history book I ever read was published in 1984, 34 years after I was born. Books, stories, I get so much more from the true stories.
Julia wrote: "Double Musk is really unnecessary"glad it wasn't just me thinking that was insane
Walter Isaacson is a good biographer. (Or was.). His bios on Leonardo and Einstein were so good. After reading the Leonardo one, I remember saying once that I'd read any biography Isaacson wrote. Well, going to have to take that back now. Not only is it impossible to do a truly objective biography of someone still in the prime of their life (not to mention in the middle of their sociopathic trolling of the world), but 600+ pages of that egotistical loon sounds insufferable.