Spring is not quite here yet, but the spring publishing season has arrived in full force! Check out some of most anticipated nonfiction coming out this month.
Christina Applegate considers her life, from star of Married with Children and Anchroman to her role as an advocate for herself and others living with multiple sclerosis in You With the Sad Eyes while icon Liza Minelli recounts her life — Judy Garland, Cabaret, battles with substance abuse, and a whole lot more — in Kids, Wait ‘Till You Hear This! Sportwsriter Tom Junod synthesizes his childhood with a charismatic, philandering father with In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man and Mark Oppenheimer showcases the life of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices in Judy Blume: A Life. Lindy West takes readers along on an uproarious cross-country trip in her latest, Adult Braces, while Cazzie David’s newest collection, Delusions, explores the irony and existential crises of leaving youth behind. Grammy-Award winner Brandy charts her growth to stardom from Mississippi churches to Hollywood spotlights in Phases while Andy Beta considers the life, art and transcendence of jazz musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane in Cosmic Music. And Lloyd Blankfein delivers a candid memoir of global leadership at Goldman Sachs in an age of extreme turbulence in Streetwise.
In science and nature, Terry Tempest Williams returns with a revelatory work on narrative nonfiction about the transformative moments of power in a world beset by uncertainty in The Glorians while Suzanne Simard returns with a book that places nature’s own cycles of renewal at the center of a powerful vision for the future of our forests in When the Forest Breathes. David George Haskell places flowers at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know today in How Flowers Made Our World while James H. McCommons chronicles the great crusade to save America’s birds in The Feather Wars. Caroline Tracey pens a dazzling love letter to a strange ecosystem and a moving odyssey into her own identity with Salt Lakes. And from Bill Gifford, coauthor of Outlive, comes a radical exploration of the science of heat adaptation and sweat therapy to tap into the evolutionary superpowers that we’ve forgotten we possess in Hotwired.
In history, Ibram X. Kendi charts how “great replacement theory” has moved from the margins to become the most dominant political theory of our time in Chain of Ideas and Rhae Lynn Barnes chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries in Darkology. Ian Buruma astonishes with an account of life under a murderous regime amid Berlin’s descent into utter annihilation in Stay Alive while Evelyn Iritani tells an untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American-Japanese contacts in World War II in Safe Passage. Jazmine Ulloa interviews five families to tell one hundred years of blood, migration, race and memory of the “Ellis Island” of America’s southern border, El Paso.
In self improvement, Jenny Lawson returns with tips and tricks that kept her alive, happy, and creative — in spite of herself — in How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay; social media sensations Cate Osborn & Erik Gude deliver a fresh and practical guide for those who want to understand why and how their brain works the way it does in The ADHD Field Guide for Adults; and therapist Kaelynn Partlow, from Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum, links her world to yours as an autistic therapist in Life on the Bridge. Majid Fotuhi designs a clinically proven plan to age-proof your brain and stay sharp for life in The Invincible Brain while Tommy Wood helps readers future-proof their brains from dementia and stay sharp at any age in The Stimulated Mind. Anthony Klotz shows us why we quit, when to stay, and why it matters in Jolted and Erin McGoff provides hyper-helpful scripts for every situation in The Secret Language of Work. Nir Eyal’s latest, Beyond Belief, contains science-backed ways to stop limiting yourself and achieve breakthrough results while Shi Heng Yi charts the path to self-mastery by bringing clarity, strength, and purpose to modern life in Shaolin Spirit. Adam Phillips explores the idea of our lives being ones we want and enjoy rather than merely endure, tolerate, or make the most of in The Life You Want; Daniel Smith finds the wisdom in our darkest emotions in Hard Feelings; and Arthur C. Brooks’ latest, The Meaning of Your Life, focuses readers on how to find purpose in an age of emptiness.
Maxine Sharf provides home cooks with easy go-to recipes to make again and again in Maxi’s Kitchen while Ham El-Waylly uses core flavors from different cuisines, and frees readers to mix, match, and shake up classic dishes from all around the world in Hello, Home Cooking. Robin Arzon serves up 75 high-protein plant-based recipes in Eat to Hustle and Rachael DeVaux shares 100 satisfying everyday recipes to meet your protein goals in The High-Protein Plate. Sana Javeri Kadri celebrates beautiful, simple, and seasonal cooking with 85 recipes adapted from India and Sri Lanka’s best family spice farms in The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook; Crystal Wahpepah weaves powerful storytelling with 125 intertribal recipes to heal our bodies and restore our foodway with A Feather and a Fork; Mariam Daud shares comfort food recipes from her Palestinian American home in I Sleep in My Kitchen; and Anissa Helou cooks the foods of her homeland in Lebanon. And from Tanya Bush comes Will This Make You Happy, a hybrid memoir and cookbook about one transformative year of desire, indulgence, and dessert.
Rounding out the month are Benjamin Hale’s Cave Mountain, a compelling true crime story about two young girls who went missing in the same Arkansas woods twenty-three years apart and the strange circumstances connecting them, and Rachel Hartigan’s Lost, a spellbinding narrative exploring three leading theories of Amelia Earhart’s tragic disappearance. Keith O’Brien charts the improbable rise of Larry Bird and the Indiana State Sycamores in Heartland and Emma Baccellieri celebrates the players, teams, and history of women’s basketball in Court Queens. Bart D. Ehrman reveals how the teachings of Jesus transformed the moral conscience of the West in Love Thy Stranger. Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s fifth collection of poetry, Night Owl, explores love, nature, and the transformative powers of the night while Maggie Smith returns with a new collection of poems on the sometimes blurry distinction between mind and body, and how the self shifts and moves through time and space in A Suit or a Suitcase. Finally, husband-and-wife team Anne Lamott and Neal Allen show you how to turn a worthy sentence into a memorable one in Good Writing.
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