New Nonfiction Roundup – December 2024

Check out these excellent reads to add to your TBR pile this month!

In memoir, Scottish carpenter Callum Robinson explores his life as a craftsman in Ingrained while “clueless craftsman” Patrick Hutchison enjoys off-the-grid adventures in the Cascades in Cabin (also a Peak Pick!). The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay returns with more stories about being a reality TV star, mother and former Mormon in Good Time Girl while Jaha Marie Dukureh, who survived FGM and forced child marriage to become a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, empowers readers in I Will Scream to the World.

History buffs have much to consider in December. Catherine Nixey chronicles the many lives and deaths of Jesus Christ in Heretic. In The Cure for Women, Lydia Reeder considers how one woman challenged Victorian medicine and changes women’s lives forever, while Olivia Campbell recounts how four women physicists escaped Nazi Germany and made scientific history in Sisters in Science. Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry tell the story of the Carolingian civil war that made Medieval Europe in Oathbreakers and Catherine Fletcher explores two thousand years of imperial expansion in The Roads to Rome. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa narrates the abdication of Nicholas II and the fall of the Romanovs in The Last Tsar while Clare Mulley tells the untold story of female World War II resistance fighter Agent Zo. Alex Cuardos tells the story of an illegal diamond mine and the clash between indigenous tribes and Westerners in When We Sold God’s Eye while John Haywood presents a history of the Atlantic before Columbus in Ocean. And Mark Clifford recounts how Jimmy Lai became a billionaire, Hong Kong’s greatest dissident, and China’s most feared critic in The Troublemaker.

Dr. Julie Smith returns with a companion for life’s twists and turns in Open When while Mel Robbins shares the life-changing hack that millions of people can’t stop talking about in the Peak Pick The Let Them Theory. Eliot Stein looks at ancient customs, profound traditions, and the last people keeping them alive in Custodians of Wonder; Michael Breus shares simple daily habits for profound long-term health in Sleep Drink Breathe; and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom helps readers connect in the here and now in Hour of the Heart. Shira Gill’s latest, Lifestyled, is a step-by-step approach to a more organized and intentional life. And Jeff Nippard presents a blueprint for getting jacked using science in The Muscle Ladder.

Swifties, rejoice! In Long Live, Nicole Pomarico covers the Taylor Swift multiverse in this definitive guide while Kristie Frederick Daugherty collects 113 poems inspired by the songs of Taylor Swift in Invisible Strings. Esther Zuckerman looks at rom-coms from the screwball era to today in Falling in Love at the Movies while Julie Goldsmith Gilbert considers the life of Edna Ferber, her best-selling novel of Texas, and the making of a classic American film in Giant Love. And Matt Rife, both the hottest and most controversial comedian in America, recounts his insane rise to stardom in Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me.

Columbia University humanities professor Mark Lilla surveys our lingering desire for innocence in Ignorance and Bliss while Guy Leschziner explores the underlying nature of the Seven Deadly Sins and the biology of being human. Kathy Willis shows us why seeing, smelling, hearing, and touching plants is good for our health in Good Nature. And Tae Kim chronicles how Jensen Huang and his company survived turmoil in the AI industry in The Nvidia Way.

Marcia Clark tells of murder, injustice, and the truth about the case of Barbara Graham in Trial by Ambush; April Balascio searches for the truth about her father Edward Wayne Edwards in Raised by a Serial Killer; and T.J. English traces the rise and fall of Willy Falcon and the cocaine empire that seduced America in The Last Kilo.

Codie Sanchez shows investors how to make extraordinary wealth buying ordinary businesses in Main Street Millionaire while Ramit Sethi creates a 10-step plan to create a rich life together in Money for Couples and Jay Zigmont helps couples make finances simple so life without kids can be amazing in The Childfree Guide to Life and Money.

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