Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Spring 2023
Great recent titles you may have missed, selected by our librarians.
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Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith. A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War.
Adee, Sally. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds.
Asgarian, Roxanna. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.
Auster, Paul. Bloodbath Nation. Ebook
Bittle, Jake. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration. Ebook
Bringley, Patrick. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me. Ebook
Brown, Ashley. Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson.
Brown, Jasmine. Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century.
Ciuraru, Carmela. Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages.
Clode, Danielle. Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future.
Collins, Max Allan. Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction: A Biography.
Cook, Kevin. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias. Ebook
Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Black and Female: Essays.
Darlington, Miriam. The Wise Hours: A Journey Into the Wild and Secret World of Owls.
Dawidziak, Mark. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe. Ebook
Dowd, Michelle. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir.
Egan, Dan. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance.
Eklöf, Johan. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life.
Garfield, Simon. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia.
Gilman, Priscilla. The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir.
Gopnik, Adam. The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery.
Gorham, Christopher C. The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America.
Guinn, Jeff. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage.
H, Lamya. Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir.
Hagerty, Alexa. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains.
Hazard, Leah. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began.
Heisman, Rebecca. Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration.
Kagan, Robert. The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941.
Kenneally, Christine. Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice.
King, Dean. Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite.
Kreiner, Jamie. The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction.
Kwan, Cheuk. Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World.
Levitt, Dan. What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner.
Lisle, John. The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the Oss, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare.
Loftis, Larry. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom.
Malcolm, Janet. Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory.
Marsh, Henry. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Mitenbuler, Reid. Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age.
Nuila, Ricardo. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine.
Nussbaum, Martha. Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility.
Olson, Lynne. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction.
Orenstein, Peggy. Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater. Ebook
Penaluna, Regan. How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind.
Penniman, Leah. Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists.
Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman. Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession.
Popkin, Jim. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy--And the Sister She Betrayed. Ebook
Quart, Alissa. Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream.
Ramirez, Janina. Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It.
Rayman, Graham and Reuven Blau. Rikers: An Oral History.
Rivera Garza, Cristina. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice.
Robbins, Alexandra. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession.
Roberts, Rebecca Boggs. Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson.
Runstedtler, Theresa. Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA.
Saint John, Bozoma. The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival.
Schulman, Michael. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears.
Schwalbe, Will. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship.
Stewart, James B. and Rachel Abrams. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Tabor, Nick. Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created.
Tate, Christie. B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found.
Taylor, Goldie. The Love You Save: A Memoir.
Thomas, Joseph Earl. Sink: A Memoir. Downloadable audiobook
Thunberg, Greta. The Climate Book. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Tóibín, Colm. A Guest at the Feast.
Turner, Marion. The Wife of Bath: A Biography.
V (formerly Eve Ensler). Reckoning.
Waldstreicher, David. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.
Webster, Rachel Jamison. Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family.
Whitaker, Mark. Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement.
Williams, Kidada E. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction.
Wilson, F. Perry. How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy.
Wright, Jennifer. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist.
Zernike, Kate. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science.
