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Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Spring 2024

Great recent titles you may have missed, selected by our librarians.

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Abdurraqib, Hanif.  There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension.
Alexander, Kwame, editor.  This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black PoetsDownloadable audiobook
Alford, Natasha S.  American Negra: A Memoir.  
Arana, Marie.  LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority.  
Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin.  So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It).  
Arsenault, Raymond.  John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community.  

Blehm, Eric.  The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him.  
Blitzer, Jonathan.  Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a CrisisEbook, downloadable audiobook
Boyle, Rebecca.  Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are.
Breen, Benjamin.  Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science.  
Butler, Blake.  Molly.  

Chayka, Kyle.  Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Clein, Emmeline.  Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm.  
Coll, Steve.  The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq.  
Cwiklik, Robert.  Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War.  

Darlington, Miriam.  Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World.  
Dearborn, Mary V.  Carson McCullers: A Life.  
Debreczeni, József.  Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz.
DeRuiter, Geraldine.  If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury.  
Durkin, Hannah.  The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade.  

Erdozain, Dominic.  One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our DemocracyEbook, downloadable audiobook

Figueroa, Jamie.  Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico.  
Finkel, David.  An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country.

Gates, Henry Louis Jr.  The Black Box: Writing the Race.  
Ghosh, Amitav.  Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories.  
Gregory, Philippa.  Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History.
Gutierrez, Elizabeth Camarillo.  My Side of the River: A MemoirDownloadable audiobook

Henderson, Rob.  Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.
Herold, Benjamin.  Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs.  
Heti, Sheila.  Alphabetical Diaries.  
Hirsch, Annabelle.  A History of Women in 101 Objects.  
Howsare, Erika.  The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors.  
Hylton, Antonia.  Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow AsylumEbook, downloadable audiobook

Jackson, Jenn M.  Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism.  
Joyce, Patrick.  Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World.  

Kaplan, James.  3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool.  
Kasher, Moshe.  Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six ScenesEbook
Klaas, Brian. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do MattersDownloadable audiobook

Lieu, Susan.  The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir.  
Liontas, Annie.  Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery.

Markham, Lauren.  A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.  
Martin, Manjula.  The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History.
McCallum, Jack.  The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops.
McCammon, Sarah.  The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.  
Morimoto, Shoji.  Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A MemoirEbook

Nguon, Chantha and Green, Kim.  Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes.  
Norris, Michele.  Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and IdentityEbook

O'Connor, John.  The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster.  
Oluo, Ijeoma.  Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—And How You Can, Too.  
Ondaatje, Michael.  A Year of Last Things: Poems.  

Parker, Morgan.  You Get What You Pay For.  
Paul, Caroline.  Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age.  
Perlin, Ross.  Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.  
Purnell, Brontez.  Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse.  

Raboteau, Emily.  Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse.”  
Ranganath, Charan.  Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters.  
Robbie, Margot; Mukamal, Andrew, et al.  Barbie: The World Tour.  
Rodgers, Jodi.  How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us about Difference, Connection, and Belonging.  
Rogers, Katie.  American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden.
Rothenberg, Ben.  Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice.  

Salisbury, Katie Gee.  Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong.  
Sante, Lucy.  I Heard Her Call My Name.  
Sciutto, Jim.  The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War.  
Shatz, Adam.  The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.  
Shechtman, Anna.  The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.  
Slater, Lyn.  How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon.  
Spencer, Charles.  A Very Private School: A Memoir.  
Stanley, Bob.  The Story of the Bee Gees: Children of the World.
Stone, Dan.  The Holocaust: An Unfinished History.  
Swanson, James L.  The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America.  

Taffa, Deborah Jackson.  Whiskey Tender: A Memoir.  
Traub, James.  True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America.  
Trentmann, Frank.  Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022.  
Trofimov, Yaroslav.  Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence.  

Wolraich, Michael.  The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz AgeEbook