New Nonfiction Books - May 2025
Architecture
Dense + Green Urban Development / Schropfer, Thomas
Rebuilding Pittsburgh / Fraser, Jeffery
Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs
Art Spy / Young, Michelle
Buckley / Tanenhaus, Sam
Carson the Magnificent / Zehme, Bill
Desi Arnaz / Purdum, Todd S.
Fearless and Free: A Memoir / Baker, Josephine
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir / Hulls, Tessa
Gandolfini / Bailey, Jason
How to Lose Your Mother / Jong-Fast, Molly
Mesopotamian Riddle / Hammer, Joshua
Mornings Without MII / Inaba, Mayumi
Undaunted Mind / Hayes, Kevin J.
Business/Finance
Bad Company / Greenwell, Megan
Rich Girl Nation / Gatti Tassin, Katie
Career
Four Days a Week / Schor, Juliet
Computers/Technology
A to Z GIS / Esri
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares / Hao, Karen
Cooking/Food
Air Fryer / Of the Harvard Common Press, Editors
Garlic, Olive Oil + Everything Mediterranean / Lia, Daen
Official Horizon Cookbook / Rosenthal, Victoria
Crafts/Hobbies
Essential Crochet Starter Stitches / Leapman, Melissa
Modern Embroidery Handbook / Albans, Clare
Natural Watercolor Paint Making / Green, Joanne
Family/Relationships
How to Handle More Than You Can Handle / Griffith-Atkins, Amanda
Tech Exit / Morell, Clare
Grief & Loss
How We Die / Nuland, Sherwin B.
Magic in the Tragic / Tsilimparis, John
Health/Medical/Fitness
Floored: A Woman’s Guide to Pelvic Floor Health / Reardon, Sara
Lift / Chaker, Anne Marie
Mind Electric: A Neurologist / Anand, Pria
On Muscle / Tsui, Bonnie
History
Access: Inside the Abortion Underground / Grant, Rebecca
John Hancock / Randall, Willard Sterne
Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster / Willis, Gerri
Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History / Rees, Laurence
Our Dear Friends in Moscow / Borogan, Irina
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global / Spinney, Laura
Red Scare / Risen, Clay
To Dare and to Conquer / Leebaert, Derek
House/Home
Tales of a Not So Tiny House / Barcelou, Chloe
Languages
Business of Being a Writer / Friedman, Jane
Speak, Memorably / McGowan, Bill
Speaking in Tongues / Coetzee, J. M.
Write Through It / McKean, Kate
Music
Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall / Anderson, Brian
Oasis Talking Shite / Not the Gallagher Brothers
New Age / Suupernatural
Way of Tarot / Jodorowsky, Alejandro
Pets/Animals
This Dog Will Change Your Life / Weiss Friedman, Elias
Political Science
Breaking the Engagement / Shambaugh, David
Reading the Constitution / Breyer, Stephen
Pop Culture
1999 / Benes, Ross
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse / Bolin, Alice
Waiting for Britney Spears / Weiss, Jeff
Psychology
Gift of Not Belonging / Kaminski, Rami
Truth Medicine / Sapiro, Michael Ryoshin
Reference
MCAT Prep Book 2025-2026 / Morrison, Lydia
Religion
How to Read the Bible / Platt, David
Immortal Mind / Egnor, Michael
Miracles and Wonder / Pagels, Elaine
One Thousand Gifts Devotional / Voskamp, Ann
Zen Teaching of Huang-Po / Calthorpe Blofeld, John Eaton
Science/Nature
Cloud Warriors / Weber, Thomas E.
Destroyer of Worlds / Close, Frank
Habitats: Discover Earth’s Precious Wild / DK
Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog / York, Carly Anne
Sound Affects / Treasure, Julian
Unseen Universe / Harper, Caroline
Self-Help
Aristotle’s Guide to Self-Persuasion / Heinrichs, Jay
Deep Listening: Transform Your Relations / Kasriel, Emily
Invisible No More / Ruhoy, Ilene Sue
Problem with Being a Person / Pollock, Talia
Resurface / Krug, Cassidy
Unplug: How to Break Up with Your Phone / Simon, Richard
Sociology / Social Sciences
Civility Book: A Guide to Building Bridges / Finley, Nolan
Man and His Symbols / Jung, Carl G.
Misbehaving at the Crossroads / Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne
Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation / Sherman, Carter
Travel
Great American Retro Road Trip / Pujol, Rolando
Lonely Planet Great Britain / Walker, Kerry
Lonely Planet Scotland / Gillespie, Kay
Rick Steves Italy / Steves, Rick
True Crime
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust / Fraser, Caroline