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Every Wednesday throughout the year, the New Yorker’s editors and critics curate the most thought-provoking and talked-about books. We’re sharing some nonfiction highlights here in an eclectic reading list including: the acclaimed memoir of motherhood and divorce from Leslie Jamison, a dishy oral history of The Village Voice, and a timely, important examination of 2020 through the lens of five ordinary New Yorkers.

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

The New Yorker Selects: Favorite Nonfiction of 2024 So Far

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The New Yorker rounds up the best new book, and we've chosen our favorite nonfiction picks of 2024 so far. This eclectic mix includes a new memoir from Leslie Jamison, an oral history of The Village Voice, and more.

Each year, thousands of authors publish their scholarly contributions in new books, and it's almost impossible to keep up with which of these are the most accessible and rewarding to a general audience. We've put together a curated list of some of our favorite university press books this year that offer in-depth and expert takes on history, cultural studies and policy. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of these subjects will love these rigorous and enriching reads.

A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness

The Driver's Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

Hot Off the (University) Press: Best Books of 2024 So Far 

Best University Press Books of 2024 

We've put together a curated list of some of our favorite university press books this year that offer in-depth and expert takes on history, cultural studies and policy. 

Policy wonks have a lot to look forward to this month, with new releases from Jen Psaki, George Stephanopoulos, Bill Maher, and AJ Jacobs. If talking about politics fills you with existential dread, might we suggest Sebastian Junger's sublime memoir about what might be waiting for us in the afterlife?

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Nonfiction Books with Buzz: May Releases from Wonks and Journalists

Policy wonks have a lot to look forward to this month, with new releases from Jen Psaki, George Stephanopoulos, Bill Maher, and AJ Jacobs. Plus, Sebastian Junger's sublime memoir about what might be waiting for us in the afterlife?

If there's one book you read this Earth day, make it one of these. Meticulous in their research, but still accessible to the general reader, these are 5 of the best recent books to read about climate change. These books differ in their assessments of the current state of the climate crisis. Some offer more grim takes and others more encouraging. But all agree that the need to do more is urgent and stakes are enormous.

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

The New York Times Best Seller

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

Five Books to Read on Climate Change Now

Five Books to Read on Climate Change

If there's one book you read this Earth day, make it one of these. Meticulous in their research, but still accessible to the general reader, these are 5 of the best recent books to read about climate change. 

Inspired: Understanding Creativity: A Journey Through Art, Science, and the Soul

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Out now in Non-Fiction – Apr 19 2024

This week's new releases include a personal history of love and politics by renowned author Doris Kearns Goodwin in her memoir, An Unfinished Love Story; a new release by famed mystery author Anthony Horowitz; and Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder, based on a true case of a chef and serial killer in Japan. No matter what you're hankering to read, the best new book to read this month is here for the picking.

Close to Death

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

New Arrivals: The Best Books Published This Week (April 15)

Whether you're looking for the next coolest book release to read right now like Alyssa Cole's latest thriller, One of Us Knows, or something else, Tertulia has the best books for you. 

The book club mavens have made their April picks, and there’s something here for every reader—from an astrophysicist’s predictions about the end of days, to a novel mash-up of Groundhog Day and Bridget Jones’s Diary. See the Tertulia bestseller picked by Kaia Gerber and the essay collection that Roxane Gay said inspires her to maintain strength in times of crisis. 

Real Americans

The Most Fun We Ever Had

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

What Book Clubs Are Reading in April

What Book Clubs are Reading in April

Whether you're looking for the best new book club pick for your group or what Reese Witherspoon is reading this month, the next book you should read is on this list.

This week, critics and editors at The New York Times have made 7 stellar fiction and nonfiction recommendations. From books that grapple with the world of paid labor to a warning shot on climate migration to one of the most buzzing novels of 2024 so far, there's something here for every reader.

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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

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The New York Times Recommends These 7 New Books

The New York Times have made 7 stellar fiction and nonfiction recommendations. From books that grapple with the world of paid labor to a warning shot on climate migration to one of the most buzzing novels of 2024 so far.

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