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New Nonfiction Roundup – June 2025
Welcome to June! In addition to this month’s Peak Picks, June is abundant with books in the entertainment industry, along with a mix of the latest in memoir, self-care, and history. In music, Jonathan Gould takes a look at Talking Heads and the New York scene that transformed rock in Burning Down the House, while… Continue reading
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A Peek at Peak Picks – June 2025
Check out the eleven new books we’re adding to Peak Picks in June! In fiction, from Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & the Six) comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits in Atmosphere; from Leila Mottley, the… Continue reading
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Peek at Peak Picks – May 2025
We’re adding ten new Peak Picks in May! In fiction, Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive in The Emperor of Gladness; Christina Li’s adult debut reveals the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood… Continue reading
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New Nonfiction Roundup – May 2025
Welcome to May! In addition to this month’s Peak Picks, there are a lot of excellent new nonfiction books to consider. In biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain; Christopher Clarey examines the influence of Rafael Nadal… Continue reading
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A Peek at Peak Picks – May 2025
We’re adding ten new Peak Picks in May! In fiction, Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive in The Emperor of Gladness; Christina Li’s adult debut reveals the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet,… Continue reading
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New Nonfiction Roundup – April 2025
Happy April! There’s a lot of outstanding nonfiction to consider this month. In self-care, Gretchen Rubin distills her key insights into simple truths for living with greater satisfaction, clarity, and happiness in Secrets of Adulthood while Melinda Gates draws from previously untold stories to offer a new perspective on encountering transitions in The Next Day.… Continue reading
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A Peek at Peak Picks – April 2025
We’re adding eleven new Peak Picks in April! In fiction, Katie Kitamura returns with an exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love in Audition; Jon Hickey debuts with a gripping literary debut about tribal power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past in Big… Continue reading
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A Peek at Peak Picks – February 2025
We’re adding eleven books to Peak Picks in February! In fiction, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eowyn Ivey (The Snow Child) returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question – can love save us from ourselves? – in Black Woods, Blue Sky. TJ Klune is back with a supernatural road-trip thriller featuring… Continue reading
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New Nonfiction Roundup – January 2025
January is brimming with self improvement and self care titles: Brooke Shields shares her thoughts on aging as a woman in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old while Naomi Watts opens up about what she wished she’d known about menopause in Dare I Say It; relationship coach Jillian Turecki reveals the 9 hard… Continue reading