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The Best Nonfiction Books of 2024

Discover the year's best nonfiction including a stunning ode to abundance from the author of Braiding Sweetgrass; a journalist's deep dive into the early '90s that decodes today's America; a Booker Prize winner's reflections on surviving a shocking attack; and the Between the World and Me author's eye-opening journey from West Africa to the American South, Israel, and Palestine.

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Book Cover for: When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, John Ganz
A journalist revisits the upheaval of the early 90s to better understand America today

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

The New York Times praised this eye-opening history of the 1990s that "ditches the familiar narrative about a decade of relative peace and prosperity for a disturbing tale of populists, nativists and demagogues, who, acting on the margins of U.S. politics, helped shatter the post-Cold War consensus and usher in anti-democratic forces that plague the country today."

Lisa LucasJennifer SzalaiLisa Lucas & Jennifer Szalai

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Robin Wall Kimmerer
A gorgeous and thoughtful ode to abundance and giving from the celebrated author of Braiding Sweetgrass

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Robin Wall Kimmerer, celebrated author of Braiding Sweetgrass, gifts her readers once again with this gorgeous meditation on reciprocity and abundance in nature,” raved Oprah Daily. “Beautifully illustrated, brimming and buzzing with plant and animal life, The Serviceberry is a lyrical call to action."

Laurie HertzelThe New York TimesLaurie Hertzel & The New York Times

Hardcover, 2024

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, Erik Larson
An eye-opening account of the tumultuous run-up to the Civil War

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

Stop doom scrolling the latest political headlines and jump back in time to another divided era in US history with the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and The Splendid and the Vile, who brings readers to the volatile shores of Charleston, South Carolina in the five pivotal months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War. People Magazine was moved by this “all-too-prescient tale of tension and tragedy, clashing egos, miscommunication, power, and betrayal."

Tobias CarrollMitchell G.Tobias Carroll & Mitchell G.

Hardcover, 2024

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Grief Is for People, Sloane Crosley
A hilarious and disarming memoir about grief

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

After the author's apartment is broken into, her sense of security is stolen along with her belongings. Then, her best friend Russell dies exactly one month later, and she searches for answers to unanswerable questions. "Yet, despite it being a mourning book, this is not a grim or dark book-- but a poignant and relatable one, with a sly humor and heartbreaking candor that beautifully expresses anger, acceptance, and love," remarked The TODAY show.

Chris Hewitt & Chris Hewitt

Hardcover, 2024

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The acclaimed Between the World and Me author journeys from West Africa to the American South, to Israel and Palestine

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

In “a rallying cry and a love letter to writing itself,” the National Book Award winner and MacArthur "Genius" takes readers to three conflict zones in an "earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice, and of the power of writing to render a more compassionate--and more honest--future,” according to Oprah Daily.

roxane gayJennifer Szalairoxane gay & Jennifer Szalai

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Jonathan Haidt
This landmark work on the "great rewiring of childhood" has been a viral sensation - especially among parents

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

This investigation into the sharp rise in teen depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide examines how the shift from a "play-based childhood" to a "phone-based childhood" has interfered with children's social and neurological development, while offering steps parents, schools, and tech companies can take to restore a more humane childhood. The Guardian called it "an urgent and essential read, and it ought to become a foundational text for the growing movement to keep smartphones out of schools, and young children off social media."

RainnWilsonJulie ScelfoRainnWilson & Julie Scelfo

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Amy Tan
A gorgeous book about birding from a renowned author

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

When the celebrated author of The Joy Luck Club became disillusioned with the ills of the world in 2016, she turned to nature and the life around her for serenity, admiring the birds she saw at her home. The result is this "heartfelt look at the impact of the natural world" told through "diary entries, original sketches and questions to spark readers' own introspection," according to People magazine.

Barbara J KingSue HortonBarbara J King & Sue Horton

Bookbook - Detail Unspecified, 2024

$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife, Sebastian Junger
A famous war reporter faces his mortality and the afterlife following a health scare

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Sebastian Junger

The longtime war reporter has had many brushes with mortal danger, but none as close as a ruptured aneurysm at home in the summer of 2020. Though he survived, he was left pondering his own death with a combination of “intelligent reporting and flashes of poetry,” according to Air Mail. “This riveting, inspiring volume is an intimate and powerful work sure to prompt reflections in anyone who reads it."

attica lockeClaire Bidwell Smithattica locke & Claire Bidwell Smith

Hardcover, 2024

$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie
The celebrated Booker Prize winner reflects on the shocking attempt on his life

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

"The subject--the idea for which Rushdie nearly died--is the freedom to say what he wants…Rushdie survived, but he has too many scars to be certain that the idea will. This book is his way of fighting back," remarked The Atlantic.

Gary ShteyngartDwight GarnerGary Shteyngart & Dwight Garner

Hardcover, 2024

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, Anne Applebaum
A timely take from one of the most prominent public intellectuals writing about democracy today

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum

This provocative book from the Pulitzer-prize winning author of Gulag dissects how 21st century autocracies are working together to destabilize American hegemony and “provides a trenchant account that indicates that Trump, for all his bluster about America First, is part of a global phenomenon--namely, the rise of an international kleptocracy that often works in tandem,” remarked Washington Monthly.

Paperback, Large Print, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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