Monday, August 19, 2024

Readworthy: This month’s best nonfiction

 
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This Month's Best New Nonfiction
Each month, Readworthy highlights the best, most acclaimed new releases in your categories! Questions or suggestions? Let us know.
 
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Book cover for On the Edge by Nate Silver
What can professional risk-takers teach us about the future of technology and the global economy?
From cryptocurrency traders to poker players, meet the people making some of the biggest bets today — and changing our world in the process — in this brand-new release from the acclaimed statistician who wrote The Signal and the Noise.
IN THE MEDIA
The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, Next Big Idea Club, Associated Press, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews
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Book cover for Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum
The Guardian calls this instant bestseller 'a masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism'
What does dictatorship look like in the 21st century? A Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores the inner workings of autocratic regimes around the world — and what can be done to stop them.
IN THE MEDIA
NPR, PBS, The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times, Kirkus Reviews, Literary Hub
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Book cover for The Quiet Damage by Jesselyn Cook
A captivating look at the harm caused by the internet's darkest conspiracy theories
An investigative reporter shares the heart-wrenching stories of five families shattered by disinformation and conspiracy theories like QAnon.
IN THE MEDIA
The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage
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Book cover for Why Machines Learn by Anil Ananthaswamy
'If you were looking for a way to make sense of the AI revolution that is well underway, look no further'
– New York Times bestselling author Sabine Hossenfelder
Discover the mathematical concepts that brought us machine learning in this eye-opening introduction to the underpinnings of artificial intelligence.
IN THE MEDIA
New Scientist, Next Big Idea Club, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews
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Book cover for Circle of Hope by Eliza Griswold
David Grann recommends this 'spellbinding' look at 'the nature of faith and justice and what binds us as Americans'
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers to a Philadelphia evangelical church that had a thriving congregation for 40 years — until political division and a national racial reckoning threatened to tear them apart.
IN THE MEDIA
The New Yorker, Good Morning America, The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, BookPage
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Book cover for The Rent Collectors by Jesse Katz
'The experience of reading The Rent Collectors is white-knuckle and, ultimately, wholly transformative'
– Booklist, starred review
This searing, critically acclaimed read traces one young man's descent into gang violence in Los Angeles — and his search for redemption in the aftermath of a horrific crime.
IN THE MEDIA
NPR, The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Literary Hub
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Book cover for Gray Matters by Theodore H. Schwartz
What's it like to conduct brain surgery — when a mere second can separate life from death?
A renowned neurosurgeon explores how doctors came to understand and operate on the human brain in this fascinating medical history.
IN THE MEDIA
NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Parade, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Literary Hub
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Book cover for Guilty Creatures by Mikita Brottman
Publishers Weekly promises 'readers won't be able to look away' from this shocking work of true crime
When a love triangle involving two couples ended in murder, the ensuing investigation would reveal unsettling truths about their quiet Florida community.
IN THE MEDIA
The New York Times/The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist
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Book cover for Bringing Ben Home by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
A devastating indictment of the criminal justice system that John Grisham calls 'unforgettable'
In 1987, Ben Spencer was convicted of a murder he didn't commit. Here, an award-winning journalist documents the three-decade fight to prove Spencer's innocence — and the legal misconduct that led to his imprisonment.
IN THE MEDIA
NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist
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Book cover for The Tree Collectors by Amy Stewart
'I'm giving this book to everyone I know. Because it, like its subject, is a gift'
– Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
A New York Times bestselling author chronicles her encounters with tree collectors — and explores how their arboreal obsessions have transformed their lives.
IN THE MEDIA
Scientific American, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub
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