December’s notable nonfiction focuses on self improvement: from healthy eating and incorporating wellness into your home to physical and financial fitness (and some poetry for good measure), these titles lay the ground for a happier 2023.
Seattle-based Tori Dunlop, founder of Her First 100K, teaches readers how to manage debt, invest, and vote with their tax dollars in Financial Feminist. Margareta Magnusson, who introduced the concept of “death cleaning” to America, returns with more life wisdom in The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly. Bestselling authors Christopher McDougall and Eric Orton return with Born to Run 2, the ultimate training guide for runners who want to eat, race and train like the world’s best. Daniel Goleman, author of the classic Emotional Intelligence, teams up with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche to explore the science and practice of Why We Meditate (also a Peak Pick!). Dr. Mindy Pelz helps women take control of their health to burn fat, boost energy and balance hormones in Fast Like a Girl while National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne takes readers on a journey through cultural expectations of size, race and gender in Weightless. Jessica Grose tackles the unsustainability of American motherhood and empowers mothers to make better choices for themselves, their children and their communities in Screaming on the Inside. Anita Yokota presents a guide that incorporates self-care and mental wellness into your living spaces in Home Therapy while Ryan McEnaney’s Field Guide to Outside Style helps you design and plant your perfect outdoor spaces.
Dan Buettner returns with 100 recipes to live to 100 in The Blue Zones American Kitchen while Gena Hamshaw meal prep recipes to feed your future self in The Vegan Week and Lisa Bryan debuts with 100+ gluten free meals that can be made ahead or quickly assembled in Downshiftology Healthy Meal Prep. In Simply Korean, Aaron Huh focuses on easy recipes from fried rice and bulgogi to tteokbokki and hotteok. Urvashi Pitre’s latest, Instant Pot Miracle Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, focuses on hearty whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy fats, and meat in moderation. And America’s Test Kitchen has two exciting releases for December: enjoy smoothies, juices, teas, Kombucha, infused waters, broths, and more in The Complete Guide to Healthy Drinks, and discover foolproof methods and recipes to make Fresh Pasta at Home; pasta maker not required!
Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama offers 50 poems from Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, Reginald Dwayne Betts and others in Poetry Unbound while Matthew Hollis combines biography, literary criticism and storytelling in this account of T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece The Waste Land. Finally, Robin Coste Lewis, winner of the National Book Award for her collection Voyage of the Sable Venus, blends poetry with images inspired by her grandmother’s photographs of 20th century Black American life in To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness.
~posted by Frank B.
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