New Nonfiction
May 2026
 
Biography & Memoir
American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington by H. W. Brands
American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington
by H. W. Brands

From historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes an inspiring portrait of George Washington that examines his unrivaled leadership in the birth of America.
And So It Is...: A Memoir of Acceptance and Hope by Jamie Lynn Sigler
And So It Is... A Memoir of Acceptance and Hope
by Jamie Lynn Sigler

The star of the legendary HBO series The Sopranos and podcast co-host with Christina Applegate, Jamie Lynn Sigler opens up about the vicissitudes of life, from early stardom to heartache and love, motherhood, and illness, offering readers an unflinchingly vulnerable exploration of the experiences that have transformed her life.
Beyond Life and Death: The Way of True Freedom by Jet Li
Beyond Life and Death: The Way of True Freedom
by Jet Li

Martial arts legend and international movie star Jet Li distills ten powerful insights from his iconic career, his personal life and philosophies, and his thirty-year Buddhist practice.
Kate!: The Courage, Grace, and Power of the Woman Who Will Be Queen by Christopher Andersen
Kate!: The Courage, Grace, and Power of the Woman Who Will Be Queen
by Christopher Andersen

The definitive portrait of Kate Middleton, the beloved and private Princess of Wales, tracing her stunning rise from working-class roots to queen-in-waiting, from #1 New York Times bestselling royal biographer Christopher Andersen.
Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter by Ada Ferrer
Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter
by Ada Ferrer

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cuba: An American History comes a heartbreaking yet redemptive memoir about migration, separation, and the love of one family forcing its way through the fissures of history.
Killin' Time: My Life and Music by Clint Black
Killin' Time: My Life and Music
by Clint Black

The long-awaited memoir from country music legend, Clint Black--a raw, intimate, and unflinching story that traces his rise from struggling songwriter to chart-topping superstar and enduring music legend.
This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, a Life by Deborah Lutz
This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, a Life
by Deborah Lutz

Deborah Lutz compellingly captures Emily Jane Brontë, extraordinary poet and author of the incomparable Wuthering Heights, with deep insight and glorious prose.
This Is Me: A Reckoning by Hayden Panettiere
This Is Me: A Reckoning
by Hayden Panettiere

Heroes and Nashville star Hayden Panettiere reclaims her story in a remarkably candid memoir.
True Crime: A Memoir by Patricia Cornwell
True Crime: A Memoir
by Patricia Cornwell

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own.
Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr. by Lerone Martin
Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
by Lerone Martin

From a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead the nation and change the world.
General Nonfiction 
American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed by Isaac Fitzgerald
American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed
by Isaac Fitzgerald

New York Times bestselling author Isaac Fitzgerald sets off into the heart of America, following the path of the legendary Johnny Appleseed on an epic journey that both takes him far from home and brings him closer to it.
The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic by Thomas Asbridge
The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
by Thomas Asbridge

A magisterial history of humanity's greatest natural disaster--the Black Death--that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight.
The Flag Was Still There: A History of the American Experiment in Five Anniversaries by David McKean
The Flag Was Still There: A History of the American Experiment in Five Anniversaries
by David McKean

A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America's birth. Brilliantly written and illuminating.
For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage
by Stephanie Coontz

A provocative, authoritative reckoning with the past and future of marriage, explaining why it's become more rewarding as well as riskier.
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution by Sarah M. S. Pearsall
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution
by Sarah M. S. Pearsall

In a groundbreaking global exploration of the ideas that drove the American Revolution, a prize-winning historian shines a light on the defiance of marginalized peoples all over the world.
Girls(r): Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything by Freya India
Girls(r): Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything
by Freya India

A passionate, provocative, and deeply personal journey into the pressures shaping young lives today. Freya India shows that age-old anxieties of girlhood are now being amplified by modern life and exploited like never before. 
Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World by Victoria Johnson
Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World
by Victoria Johnson

From the author of American Eden--finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more--comes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American artist whose stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put the young republic on the map of world culture.
The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright: The True Story of Mass Murder in Paradise by Casey Sherman
The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright: The True Story of Mass Murder in Paradise
by Casey Sherman

In The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman delves beyond the myth of Wright's genius to reveal a man of relentless ambition, consuming passion, and devastating loss. With haunting intimacy and propulsive storytelling, Sherman delivers a portrait of an artist who could not escape the shadows of his own making--and who rose, again and again, from the ashes.
The Last of the Old Breed: An Oral History of the Final Marines from World War II by Scott Davis
The Last of the Old Breed: An Oral History of the Final Marines from World War II
by Scott Davis

An oral history of the brutal Pacific Theater in WWII, told by many of the last living U.S. Marine veterans.
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World by Douglas Brunt
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
by Douglas Brunt

From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world's most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, whose legacy was erased in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America by Michael Auslin
National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America
by Michael Auslin

The inspiring story of the Declaration of Independence--the first to take us from its drafting by Thomas Jefferson to today--charting the many lives of a document that captures the soul of America and has united generations around its defiant ideals, published for the 250th anniversary of America's founding.
Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower by Andrew Bayliss
Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
by Andrew Bayliss

A major new history of ancient Greece's most iconic city-state.
Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull by Tom Clavin
Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull
by Tom Clavin

A dramatic new look at Custer's Last Stand in time for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, by the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Heart of Everything That Is.
Miscellaneous
Birth Vibes: Stories and Strategies for an Empowered Birth by Jen Hamilton
Birth Vibes: Stories and Strategies for an Empowered Birth
by Jen Hamilton

Birth Vibes is the ultimate companion for anyone preparing to give birth--or supporting someone who is. Warm, funny, and deeply grounded in real-life experience, this is the guide every parent deserves: allowing them adapt to whatever birth brings with confidence and calm.
Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being by Manoush Zomorodi
Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being
by Manoush Zomorodi

From the award-winning journalist and NPR TED Radio Hour host comes a timely investigation into how screens and sitting are reshaping our bodies--and how a simple shift can change everything.
A Brief History of the Universe (and Our Place in It) by Sarah Alam Malik
A Brief History of the Universe (and Our Place in It)
by Sarah Alam Malik

An elegant exploration of humanity's continuous search to find the hidden truths of the universe and comprehend our place in the cosmos.
The Creatures' Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care by Elizabeth Preston
The Creatures' Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care
by Elizabeth Preston

A lively and revelatory journey through the evolution of caretaking on Earth, from animal parents to modern-day humans, making the case that caring for children and each other made us who we are.
Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America by Chris Murphy
Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America
by Chris Murphy

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.
The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality by Steven Rosenbaum
The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality
by Steven Rosenbaum

In The Future of Truth, we go on a truth treasure hunt. Author, filmmaker, and media explorer Steven Rosenbaum sets out to understand how this is happening--and what comes next. What begins as a personal investigation becomes something stranger and more urgent: a story about systems captured, consensus collapsing, and humans caught in the digital crossfire.
I Belong to Me: A Survivor's Guide to Recovery and Hope After Religious Trauma by Tia Levings
I Belong to Me: A Survivor's Guide to Recovery and Hope After Religious Trauma
by Tia Levings

Through a series of personal stories, therapeutic stages, and resources, Tia Levings guides readers through the journey that helped her leave abuse, rediscover selfhood, and heal her mind, soul, and body after religious trauma --so that you can too.
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better by David Epstein
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
by David Epstein

How do we do more with less? From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Range, why limits are the key to stimulating creativity, innovation, collaboration, and personal contentment.
The Land and Its People: Essays by David Sedaris
The Land and Its People: Essays
by David Sedaris

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).
The Long Game: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts by Leander Schaerlaeckens
The Long Game: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts
by Leander Schaerlaeckens

The gripping account of the U.S. men's national soccer team's winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026.
Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett
Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children
by Mac Barnett

Make Believe is bestselling children's author Mac Barnett's rallying cry for art and imagination, and a celebration of the power of storytelling in all our lives. It's an incisive, intimate, and timely invitation to approach children's literature not only as an art form worthy of deep study and criticism, but as a portal into the lives of the children. And at a time when we are faced with a national literacy crisis, he champions the profound joys of literature and the importance of reading for pleasure.
On Witness and Respair: Essays by Jesmyn Ward
On Witness and Respair: Essays
by Jesmyn Ward

The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.
Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

America's favorite astrophysicist has written the most entertaining and universally appealing book of his stellar career: a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors, an exploration of how it might happen, and a cultural history of our fascination with extraterrestrials.
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
by Mary Beard

The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she's talking all things classics. Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why--for better or (sometimes) worse--antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination.
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