June 2026 list by Nanette Alderman |
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The Art of Intentional Dressing
by Erin Walsh
Will empower you to not only find your personal style, but find your magic--as you step into a life of presence, power, and purpose. With can't-miss tips, industry secrets, and deep attention to the mind-body-spirit connection.
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America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries
by Eddie S. Glaude
Presents a groundbreaking analysis of the vicious cycles of American history and the country's enduring refusal to face its true nature—especially at the moments when national anniversaries steer us back toward the mythology meant to disguise the truth. Details a heart-wrenching exploration of America's legacy.
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American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed
by Isaac Fitzgerald
As a child, Isaac Fitzgerald was captivated by Johnny Appleseed. He sets out on a year-long journey to follow Appleseed's path, walking (okay, sometimes driving, and at one point, even floating downstream) from Massachusetts to Indiana. On this journey, Fitzgerald turns a childhood fascination into a profound reckoning of loss and grief, ritual and faith, grimy gas station bathrooms and scenic apple picking.
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The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric Mind
by Rosa Montero
Montero draws on psychology, neuroscience, and literature, as well as the lives of writers and artists, to explore the connection between creativity and mental vulnerability. She brings to life figures such as Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad, and Doris Lessing.
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Body Electric
by Manoush Zomorodi
Reveals the surprising physiological costs of our digital existences, from posture problems and dwindling eyesight to disrupted breathing and weight gain, and shares scientifically-backed, easy-to-manage tactics and solutions for better health and well-being. Also debunks myths and misconceptions about what helps and hurts us, offers useful insights into the labs, offices, schools, and homes where small shifts are making big difference.
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A Brief History of the Universe (and Our Place in It)
by Sarah Alam Malik
From Copernicus launching a helio-centric revolution to Ernest Rutherford uncovering the world inside the atom, to Vera Rubin confirming the existence of dark matter, each generation has built upon, and then upended, the knowledge of those who came before. Even today ninety-five percent of the universe remains unknown.
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Climate Wayfinding
by Katharine K. Wilkinson
Shares a proven process for looking inward with care, outward with curiosity, and forward with courage. Ultimately, readers chart a course toward playing their unique part in our collective healing.
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Get It in Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Your Rights at Work
by Ryan Stygar
Attorney Ryan Stygar, a former firefighter who became a workers' rights attorney, teaches you everything you need to know about how to get what you're owed at work. Each chapter is filled with practical, easy-to-understand advice.
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How to Raise an Emotionally Mature Child
by Lindsay C. Gibson
Lindsay C. Gibson explains the cognitive, psychological, and social challenges children face, from forming strong attachments during infancy to dealing with emotions and achievement in early school age to establishing personal identity in the teenage years. At each stage, she offers compassionate guidance to help parents support their child's emotional development.
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Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
by David Epstein
The science and practice of constraints, exploring exactly when and how guardrails can be beneficial, whether we're working with limited resources or using self-imposed boundaries to tap unexpected wells of focus and innovation. Original, galvanizing, and deeply researched, tells absorbing stories of people and organizations that embraced constraints to transform themselves, and the world.
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Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter
by Ada Ferrer
In 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power, Ada Ferrer's mother made the agonizing decision to flee Cuba with her infant daughter, Ada, and to leave behind her nine-year-old son, Poly. Weaves a multigenerational tale that reaches into the past to understand the circumstances and choices that led to the present.
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Killin' Time: My Life and Music
by Clint Black
Clint puts pen to paper to write, for the first time, the story of the man behind the music. In his long-awaited memoir, Black shares the unfiltered, extraordinary account of his journey from a kid with a dream on the outskirts of Houston to a country music legend. From his near-death experiences as a young boy, to his decision to drop out of high school to pursue music, to countless years struggling as an unknown young artist, playing at any nightclub or hotel bar that would have him, Black's path to success had more twists than the Texas two-step.
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The Long Game
by Leander Schaerlaeckens
For almost half a century, the U.S. men's national team existed on the fringes of world soccer—out of sight, out of mind, and, more often than not, out of the World Cup. Between 1950 and 1990, the program toiled in irrelevance, a collection of part-timers playing before empty bleachers. Then, things began to shift, and today's U.S. men's team is loaded with young and pedigreed talent, expected to make its mark at the 2026 World Cup.
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Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
by Patrick Wyman
A new look at humanity's deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by trial and error on a global scale.There's a familiar story about us humans: we went from hunting and gathering to farming, wandering bands to villages and cities, clans and chieftains to states and kings.
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The New Vegetarian
by America's Test Kitchen
Enjoy vegetarian meal-making at its best with 500+ recipes that showcase a wide variety of vegetables and non-meat healthier proteins that help to deliciously add more fiber to your diet.
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Therapy Nation
by Jonathan Alpert
In America today, seeing a therapist is no longer taboo, and mental-health resources are more accessible than ever. Yet despite this progress, anxiety and depression among Americans are now at record highs, and the country feels even more divided. After twenty years as a practicing therapist and go-to media expert on mental health, Jonathan Alpert has come to an unsettling conclusion: his own profession is part of the problem.
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True Crime
by Patricia Cornwell
Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham's wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalization and near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares overcoming obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter.
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Unlearn Your Pain
by Howard Schubiner
For the past twenty years, Dr. Howard Schubiner has conducted clinical trials and authored more than 100 scientific papers to uncover the root cause of challenging illnesses. He shares in inspiring and step-by-step detail the program that has proven to be effective in reversing chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression.
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Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull
by Tom Clavin
On June 25-27, 1876, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was fought between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Along the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, the battle resulted in the devastating defeat of U.S. forces and was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.
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