It’s a new year, and a time for reinvention. In addition to a host of “new year, new you” self improvement books, January has plenty of histories, memoir and other noteworthy nonfiction to consider.
Take the next step in the Love Language revolution and discover how to personalize love so you really feel it in The Love Language That Matters Most while Deepak Chopra takes readers on a path to freedom and enlightenment in Awakening. Dr. Lucky Sekhon helps women understand their fertility to get pregnant now in The Lucky Egg while Melani Sanders pens a guide for women in perimenopause, menopause, and beyond who are over it in The Official We Do Not Care Club. Gabrielle Lyon delivers an actionable, six-week, science-based plan to sharpen your mind, strengthen your body, and get healthy at any age in The Forever Strong Playbook. Jennifer Breheny Wallace introduces readers to the secret to a life of deep connection and purpose in Mattering and Maya Shankar explores who we become when life makes other plans in The Other Side of Change. Brad Stulberg releases a practical guide to true greatness and deep satisfaction in a chaotic world in The Way of Excellence while Shade Zahrai helps you rewire self-doubt, find your confidence, and fuel success in Big Trust. Will Bulsiewicz shows you how to activate the power of your gut to tame inflammation and reclaim your health in Plant Powered Plus; Marina Wright provides a complete guide to balancing your hormones, reversing weight gain, and restoring nervous system health in The Cortisol Reset Plan; and Ania M. Jastreboff teams up with Oprah Winfrey to discuss health, weight and freedom in Enough. Dr. Khurram Sadiq delivers an expert-led guide to autism and ADHD co-concurrence in Explaining AuDHD while neurodivergent comedian Darcy Michael offers a guide to thriving with ADHD in Attention Seeker. And Amanda Holden pens a guide to easy investing, building wealth, and creating the wild, beautiful life you want in How to Be a Rich Old Lady.
Healthy eating dominates the month’s most popular cookbooks. Jamie Oliver’s latest features satisfying food that will change your life in Eat Yourself Healthy; Liz Douglas shares 100 delicious, plant-based nostalgic comfort food recipes in Cozy Vegan; Clem Haxby takes your salads to the next level with 56 flavorful, customizable meals in The Salad Project; and Kat Ashmore collects 100 nourishing family recipes that cook in less than an hour in Big Bites.
In memoir and biography, from Jung Chang comes the long-awaited sequel to Wild Swans, where Chang traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations in one family in Fly, Wild Swans. Belle Burden shares the heartbreak and joy following the unexpected end of her marriage in Strangers while Rachel Eliza Griffiths mourns the death of her closest friend while reckoning with the attack on her husband, Salman Rushdie, in The Flower Bearers. Josiah Hesse chronicles how fear, shame, and poverty make the Christian right in On Fire for God. Former servant Paul Burrell tells of his life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana in The Royal Insider; Jason Zengerle examines Tucker Carlson’s rise and the unraveling of the conservative mind in Hated By All the Right People; and Gayle Feldman looks back at Bennett Cerf and the publishing house he built in Nothing Random. And mystery writer Val McDermid blends memoir with creative nonfiction with a dazzling ode to a lost world in Winter.
In history, Julian Sancton tells the riveting true story of a billion-dollar shipwreck and the ghosts of the Spanish Empire in Neptune’s Fortune while Gordon Corera reveals how one man — a librarian — tried to kill the KGB in The Spy in the Archive. Clyde W. Ford raises hidden voices from the African American past in A High Price for Freedom and professors C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost trace the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to the present day in A Black Queer History of the United States. Eve MacDonald takes a new look at ancient Rome’s most famous rival in Carthage while Susan Wise Bauer considers the history of how sickness shapes what we do, think, believe and buy in The Great Shadow. And two books take a look at “Subway Vigilante” Bernie Goetz and how it planted the seeds for today’s racial divide: Heather Ann Thompson’s Fear and Fury and Elliot Williams’ Five Bullets. In current events, Elizabeth Vartkessian reveals what the lives of the condemned say about American justice in The Deserving while musician and activist Lachi celebrates disability culture, identity, and power as a contemporary movement in I Identify as Blind. Elizabeth Chamblee Burch reveals how con men, call centers, and rogue doctors fuel America’s lawsuit factory in The Pain Brokers and Danny Funt pulls back the curtain on the tumultuous rise of American sports gambling in Everybody Loses.
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