| | | This Month's Best New Nonfiction | | Our goal at BookBub is to help you find amazing new books to read every day. We're testing out new monthly emails that will highlight the best recent releases in your favorite genres. If you'd like to continue receiving this email, you don't need to do anything. If you're not interested, you can opt out by clicking here. Finally, if you have any feedback about this new offering, please reply to this email — we'd love to hear from you! |  | | | | | | Filterworld | | By Kyle Chayka | | | | | | "Necessary reading" (Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar): How are our experiences and choices impacted by the ever-present algorithms of digital life? This highly anticipated read from a New Yorker staff writer "does the near impossible: It makes algorithms, those dull formulas of inputs and outputs, fascinating" (The Atlantic). | | | |  | | | | | | Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here | | By Jonathan Blitzer | | | | | | "A masterpiece that everybody, everybody should read" (Javier Zamora, New York Times bestselling author of Solito): This "tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit" (Patrick Radden Keefe) documents the history of the ongoing immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border. "Sure to take its place as one of the definitive accounts of the US and Central American immigration puzzle" (The Washington Post). | | | |  | | | | | | Get the Picture | | By Bianca Bosker | | | | | | This instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Cork Dork is "a gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world" (Time). When Bianca Bosker began to look into the captivating lives of art gallerists, collectors, and curators — not to mention artists themselves — she found a new obsession as well as a new way of life. "One of the funniest books I've read about New York's contemporary art scene… Brilliant" (The Washington Post). | | | |  | | | | | | Why We Read | | By Shannon Reed | | | | | | "For those of us who always have a book within arm's reach" (New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch), this "warm and funny memoir in essays" (The Washington Post) is a perfect pick. Follow along as a lifelong reader explores the books that have most impacted her and her students — and argues for the value of reading for pleasure. "A lovely, funny read" (George Saunders). | | | |  | | | | | | Our Moon | | By Rebecca Boyle | | | | | | Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ed Yong calls this January release "a riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word." Discover the remarkable role the moon has played in Earth's evolution as well as human progression with this New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. | | | |  | | | | | | Be a Revolution | | By Ijeoma Oluo | | | | | | "Readers will find inspiration and clarity" (Publishers Weekly) in this new release from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race. Here, author Ijeoma Oluo profiles the people across the US who are fighting for racial equity — and offers a jumping-off point for readers who want to encourage change in their own communities. "Remarkable" (San Francisco Chronicle). | | | |  | | | | | | Readers of Malcolm Gladwell will be fascinated by this myth-busting book that uses chaos theory to explore how tiny, random events have outsized implications for our lives and the world around us. New Scientist raves, "Fluke is provocative and compelling, bringing the complex relationship between order and chaos vividly alive. There is every chance you will love it." | | | |  | | | | | | Our Hidden Conversations | | By Michele Norris | | | | | | An instant New York Times bestseller! A Peabody Award–winning journalist hailed as "one of our most important chroniclers of American life" (Clint Smith) solicited six-word micro-essays on race and identity — and was surprised at the depth of the responses she received. "The result of her noble project is this beautiful and inspiring book" (Walter Isaacson) that offers a glimpse into how Americans understand themselves and each other. | | | |  | | | | | | The Last Fire Season | | By Manjula Martin | | | | | | Highly anticipated by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and more, this beautifully written book chronicles Manjula Martin's move from the city to the forests of Northern California — and her experience of the region's devastating wildfires. New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean raves, "Her book is as lyrical as a prose poem but as smartly reported as the best journalism. Her account… will thrill, haunt, and ultimately charm you." | | | |  | | | | | | This riveting "sociological investigation of an unforgettable year… reveal[s] how 2020 reshaped life in the United States" in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America). Take a look inside the lives of seven New Yorkers as they grappled with tragedy and political upheaval — and found glimmers of hope — across the course of a historic year. "A gripping, deeply moving account" (Siddhartha Mukherjee). | | | | | |
