[Ginga-argentina] This season’s 10 best nonfiction releases

Tue Mar 11 18:02:18 CET 2025

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This Month’s Best New Top Nonfiction Picks

Among this season’s Readworthy nonfiction picks, what are the biggest, buzziest books that deserve a spot on your reading list? Here are the 10 nonfiction titles you absolutely shouldn’t miss from the past few months.

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The Tell by Amy Griffin

Oprah Winfrey was ‘floored’ by her ‘extraordinary’ new book club pick

- Amy’s life looked perfect — until psychedelic-assisted therapy uncovered the shocking abuse she experienced as a child in the Texas panhandle

- “Your own heart will break, and mend” (Susan Cain) as you read this powerful story of memory, the limits of the judicial system, and inner healing

- “A beautiful account of the journey of courage it takes to face the truth of one’s past” (Bessel van der Kolk, author of <i>The Body Keeps the Score</i>)

Media Praise: Oprah's Book Club, Time Magazine, CBS Mornings, Associated Press, Vogue, The Times, Kirkus Reviews

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Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer

This examination of the air we breathe is ‘engaging, essential reading’ (<i>Booklist</i>)

- Penned by an award-winning <i>New York Times</i> columnist who Ed Yong calls “one of the very best science writers”

- Through sweeping history and groundbreaking reporting, Zimmer explores aerobiology, airborne viruses, biological weapons, and more

- “Presents both a bird’s-eye and a microscopic view of life in the atmosphere and its profound effects on humans” (<i>Nature</i>)

Media Praise: The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, Nature, Science, Associated Press, Scientific American, Newsweek, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist

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Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

A Pulitzer Prize winner’s powerful journey of mourning

- “Warm and life-affirming, this brilliant book has its own restorative beauty” (<i>People</i>)

- Geraldine Brooks takes readers to the remote Australian island where she wrestled with the grief of her husband’s sudden death

- A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller written with “arresting precision, sensitivity, and candor” (<i>Booklist</i> starred review)

Media Praise: The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, People, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Indie Next List, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, BookPage, Literary Hub

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The Let Them Theory by Sawyer Robbins and Mel Robbins

One of 2025’s most popular self-help titles so far!

- An instant #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller that’s already garnered more than 25,000 five-star Goodreads ratings

- Stop wasting energy on things you can’t control — and start living your happiest, most successful life

- “Offers life-changing lessons with [a] no-nonsense approach and extensive research backed by science” (<i>People</i>)

Media Praise: Time Magazine, TODAY Show, The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, Next Big Idea Club, Oprah Daily, People, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews

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Black in Blues by Imani Perry

Critics are raving about this stunning read from a National Book Award–winning author

- This “fascinating and creative work of popular anthropology” (<i>Booklist</i> starred review) explores the role of the color blue in Black history

- From the acclaimed scholar and MacArthur Fellow who wrote <i>South to America</i>

- Take it from Jesmyn Ward: “Imani Perry’s work is brilliant and lyrical as ever”

Media Praise: The New Yorker, Time Magazine, NPR, The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Elle, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, New York Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, BookPage, Literary Hub

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Source Code by Bill Gates

The tech maven, billionaire, and philanthropist’s first-ever memoir is a #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller

- “Terrorizing classmates, spending a night in jail… This isn’t the Bill Gates you know” (<i>Wired</i>)

- Witness the early years, from family teachings to formative childhood friendships, that shaped a globally impactful figure

- “Upbeat, wryly self-deprecating, and unflaggingly congenial” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>)

Media Praise: The New Yorker, PBS, CBS Mornings, The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, New Scientist, People, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Financial Times, Wired, Vanity Fair, Forbes, Fast Company, The Guardian, The Times, Rolling Stone, Variety, Kirkus Reviews

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Cabin by Patrick Hutchison

‘Will have you wanting to quit your job and head to the woods’ (<i>Today</i>)

- In this charming memoir, a writer with no carpentry skills decides to fix up a cabin in the Pacific Northwest

- “Henry David Thoreau meets <i>Home Improvement</i>… With endearing directness and an infectious can-do spirit” (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) 

- “Brims with situational humor, quirky characters, a natural disaster, lessons learned, and one guy’s search for purpose” (<i>Booklist</i>)

Media Praise: TODAY Show, The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, Next Big Idea Club, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Parade, Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, BookPage, Literary Hub

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Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough

Don’t miss this ‘history of the Vikings unlike any other’ (<i>The Sunday Times</i>)

- A <i>New York Times</i> Editors’ Choice that “deserves a place on the shelf of everyone interested in Viking history” (<i>Library Journal</i>)

- Presents striking new insights into Viking life and culture — as well as the rest of the medieval Nordic world — through the study of unearthed artifacts

- “This book brings us as close to an intimacy with a strange past as we are likely to get” (<i>Financial Times</i>)

Media Praise: The New Yorker, The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal

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The Sinners All Bow by Kate Winkler Dawson

Uncover the first American true crime narrative in this acclaimed read

- You’ll be engrossed by the real-life murder investigation that inspired <i>The Scarlet Letter</i>

- A journalist and historian uses modern techniques to investigate a woman’s mysterious death in 19th-century small-town New England

- “An utterly original reinvention of the true crime genre… Riveting and unpredictable” (Michael Finkel, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Art Thief</i>)

Media Praise: NPR, The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, BookPage, Literary Hub

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The Stained Glass Window by David Levering Lewis

A sweeping family history that ‘ought to speak to every American’ (<i>The Boston Globe</i>)

- A two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author traces the life of his own ancestors as seen through a singular church window

- “A major accomplishment in its reach and scope and reconnection with the past” (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>)

- “At once narrative history, family chronicle, and personal memoir… A luminous work of investigation and introspection” (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>)

Media Praise: The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Literary Hub

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