New Nonfiction Books - October/November 2025
Art
Art Work: On the Creative Life / Mann, Sally
Astrology
I Don’t Believe in Astrology / Silverman, Debra
Astronomy
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean / deGroot, Dagomar
Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs
100 Rules for Living to 100 / Van Dyke, Dick
Heart of a Stranger / Buchdahl, Angela
Holy Disruptor / King, Amy Duggar
Insomnia / Robertson, Robbie
Lucy & Desi: The Love Letters / Arnaz, Lucie
Nobody’s Girl / Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Simply More / Erivo, Cynthia
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A Marriage at Sea / Elmhirst, Sophie
Being Heumann / Heumann, Judith
Book of Lives / Atwood, Margaret
Girls Play Dead / Percy, Jen
Kant / Willaschek, Marcus
Nobody’s Girl / Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Only God Can Judge Me:Tupac Shakur / Pearlman, Jeff
Poppy State / Gurba, Myriam
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet / Onyebuchi, Tochi
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything / Stoner, Alyson
Sisters Loved and Treasured / Roberts, Deborah
Stone Lands / Robertson, Fiona
Taylor Swift: Unofficial Search-And-Find Biographies / Morais, Gus
The Anthony Bourdain Reader / Bourdain, Anthony
The Look / Obama, Michelle
The Philosopher in the Valley / Steinberger, Michael
Traveling in Bardo / Tashi Slater, Ann
Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee / Chang, Jeff
We Did Ok, Kid / Hopkins, Anthony
Business/Economics/Finance
Thinking in Systems / Meadows, Donella
The Overthinker’s Guide to Making Decisions / Nguyen, Joseph
Career
Personal Branding for Introverts / Chan, Goldie
Computers/Technology
Book of Making 2026 / Makers of Raspberry Pi
Designing Ttrpgs for Dummies / Buinicki, Martin
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies / Yudkowsky, Eliezer
In Robots We Trust / Vinanzi, Samuele
Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime / O’Neill, Eric
The Body Digital / Chang, Vanessa
The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2026 / Makers of Raspberry Pi
This Is for Everyone / Berners-Lee, Tim
Cooking/Food
Having People Over / Fagan, Chelsea
Lidia’s the Art of Pasta / Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio
Padma’s All American: A Cookbook / Lakshmi, Padma
Steak House / Wareheim, Eric
The Pioneer Woman Cooks-The Essential Recipes / Drummond, Ree
The Talisman of Happiness / Boni, Ada
To Die for: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes / Grant, Rosie
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Beyond Korean / Huh, Aaron
Celebrate: Joyful Baking All Year Round / Hollywood, Paul
Make Do with What You Have / Brown, Kardea
Measure with Your Heart: Southern Home Cooking / Taylor, Hannah
Southern Living 2025 Annual Recipes / Editors of Southern Living
The Encyclopedia of Soups and Stew / The Coastal Kitchen
The Science of Fermentation / DK
Wild Bread: Sourdough Reinvented / Butters, Maryjane
Crafts/Hobbies
Crochet How / Fernandes, Meghan
Crochet Snails and Mushroom Sprites / Lapp, Megan
Flashes of Brilliance / Burgess, Anika
Magic for Dummies / Pogue, David
Making Books / Goode, Simon
Modern Knifemaking for Beginners / Zerra, Laura
No-Sew Mini Amigurumi / Tatu, Genna
Sewing with Scraps / Helmersson, Birgitta
Education
Mastery / Wagner, Tony
Family/Relationships
You, Your Husband, and His Mother / Dalgleish, Tracy
The 36-Hour Day / Mace, Nancy L
A Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Relationships / Marie, Mariah-Rose
Fashion/Beauty
The Encyclopedia of Ugly Fashion / Zebrowska, Karolina
Film History
Popcorn Disabilities / Lopez, Kristen
Gardening
All New! Square Foot Gardening, 4th Ed / Square Foot Gardening
Flora / Werness, Hope
Gardenista / Wilson, Kendra
Grow a New Garden / Searle, Becky
Miniature Terrariums / Fourwords
The Essential Guide to Bulbs / Carey, Jenny Rose
Vibrant Harvest / Mao, Sandra
Geography
Radical Cartography / Rankin, William
Health/Medical/Fitness
Nightmare Obscura / Carr, Michelle
Off the Scales / Donnellan, Aimee
The Life Machines / Mochly-Rosen, Daria
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Chair Yoga for Strength and Balance / Maitreyi, ML
Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain / Amen, Daniel G
Coping with Cancer in Early Adulthood / Pozo-Kaderman, Cristina
Eat to Thrive During Menopause / Salib Huber, Jenn
Fibromyalgia for Dummies / Staud, Roland
Healthy to 100 / Stern, Ken
How Not to Die / Greger, Michael
Pull / Spiegel, Brennan
Replaceable You / Roach, Mary
Strength Training for Seniors / Waehner, Paige
The Body Keeps the Score / Van Der Kolk, Bessel
The Complete Folk Herbal / Beyer, Rebecca
The Parkinson’s Plan / Dorsey, Ray
The Period Brain / Hill Ph D, Sarah E
Unbreakable / Wright, Vonda
Weightless / Salas-Whalen, Rocio
History
A Biography of a Mountain / Davis, Matthew
Black-Owned / Adams, Char
Capitalism: A Global History / Beckert, Sven
Family of Spies / Kuehn, Christine
Motherland / Ioffe, Julia
The Gales of November / Bacon, John U
The Wounded Generation / Nasaw, David
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As a Jew / Hurwitz, Sarah
China in Ten Words: Essays / Hua, Yu
Genocide Bad / Kern, Sim
Progress / McDonald, Samuel Miller
Seven Rivers / Taylor, Vanessa
The American Revolution / Ward, Geoffrey C
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written / Isaacson, Walter
The History of Money / McWilliams, David
The Lost Kingdom of Pittsburgh / Weiss, Kenneth J
The Sea Captain’s Wife / Mazzeo, Tilar J
We Survived the Night / Noisecat, Julian Brave
House/Home
Tidying the Abyss / Dodson, Amanda
Tidying Up / Fuqua, Ea
Humor
Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism / Reynolds, Stewart
Law
Without Consent / Weinman, Sarah
Literature
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father of Modern Fantasy / Marshall, Don
Music
Heart Life Music / Chesney, Kenny
Music Business Stories / Cossie, Tom
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Adult Piano Adventures – Classics Book 1 / Faber, Nancy
Adult Piano Adventures – Popular Book 1 / Faber, Nancy
Don’t Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours / Light, Alan
New Age
There Is No Other: The Way to Harmony and Wholeness / Dass, Ram
Nutrition
What to Eat Now / Nestle, Marion
Parenting
Big Kids, Bigger Feelings / Campbell, Alyssa Blask
Pets/Animals
J.K. Lasser’s 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2026 / Weltman, Barbara
Money Proud / Wolny, Nick
Poetry
Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times / Smith, Tracy K
Night Watch: Poems / Young, Kevin
Political Science
Giving Up Is Unforgivable / Vance, Joyce
How to Test Negative for Stupid / Kennedy, John
Independent / Jean-Pierre, Karine
Under Siege / Trump, Eric
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Autocrats vs. Democrats / McFaul, Michael
Fight Oligarchy / Sanders, Bernie
Injustice / Leonnig, Carol
Retribution / Karl, Jonathan
Pop Culture
Blank Space / Marx, W David
Swifterature / McCausland, Elly
Psychology
A Trick of the Mind / Yon, Daniel
It Didn’t Start with You / Wolynn, Mark
Morbidly Curious / Scrivner, Coltan
Releasing Our Burdens / Hubl, Thomas
Strong Ground / Brown, Brene
Reading
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books / Bo-Reum, Hwang
Reference
The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2026 / Tanabe, Gen
Religion
God, the Science, the Evidence / Bollore, Michel-Yves
Look Again / Tebow, Tim
Surviving an Unwanted Divorce / TerKeurst, Lysa
The Miracles Among Us / Siegel Marc
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Be Good to Your Body / Dooley, Jordan Lee
Insane for the Light / Rolheiser, Ronald
My Son, the Priest / Grady Gilger, Kristin
Pope Leo XIV / White, Christopher
Reading the Bible on Turtle Island / Zacharias, H Daniel
Separation of Church and Hate / Fugelsang, John
The Promise of Heaven / Jeremiah, David
Science/Nature
Portals to a New Reality / Vedral, Vlatko
Tigers Between Empires / Slaght, Jonathan C
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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless / Pinto, Maria
Frostlines / Shea, Neil
Gathered / Cerberville, Gabrielle
How to Read a Tree / Gooley, Tristan
Metamorphosis / Harman, Oren
Storm: Chasing Nature’s Wildest Weather / Schyma, Hank
Strata: Stories from Deep Time / Poppick, Laura
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025 / Orlean, Susan
The Big One / Osterholm, Michael T
The Demon-Haunted World / Sagan, Carl
The Hidden Seasons / Gooley, Tristan
The Keep / Ireys, Henry T
The Whispers of Rock / Khatwa, Anjana
Things in Nature Merely Grow / Li, Yiyun
Self-Help
All in This Together / Kornfield, Jack
Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation / Cooke, Matt
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Aflame: Learning from Silence / Iyer, Pico
All in / Gleeson, Brent
Confidence / Nafousi, Roxie
End Emotional Outsourcing / Albina, Beatriz Victoria
How to Be Bold / Gulati, Ranjay
How to Manifest / Phillips, Lacy
Read Your Mind / Pearlman, Oz
The Heart Code / Nelson, Bradley
The Meaning of Life / Bailey, James
The Miracle Morning After 50 / Elrod, Hal
Why Do I Keep Doing This? / Morton, Kati
Wisdom Takes Work / Holiday, Ryan
Social Justice
Three or More Is a Riot / Cobb, Jelani
Sports/Recreation
Slow AF Run Club / Evans, Martinus
Warrior Mindset / Gracie, Roger
Sustainability
The New American Small Town / Mapes, Jennifer
Theater
One-Armed Jack / Horton, Sarah Bax
Rabbit Heart / Ervin, Kristine S.
Witch of New York / Hortis, Alex
Travel
Letter from Japan / Kondo, Marie
Lonely Planet Art Destinations / Planet, Lonely
Mexico’s Day of the Dead / Navarro, Luisa
The Traveler’s Atlas of the World / National Geographic
The Way Out / O’Neil, Devon
True Crime
Captain’s Dinner / Cohen, Adam
The Rembrandt Heist / Amore, Anthony M
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Bone Valley / King, Gilbert
Chasing Evil / Hilland, Robert
The Fort Bragg Cartel / Harp, Seth
The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place / Summerscale, Kate
The People vs. the Golden State Killer / Ho, Thien
The Tragedy of True Crime / Lennon, John J
Writing
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction / McCracken, Elizabeth