Stephen S. Hall’s Slither will make you marvel at what we can learn from snakes, if only we can swap fear for curiosity and disgust for appreciation.
Bonnie Tsui’s multifaceted celebration of muscles is an appealing, enlightening guide to understanding and appreciating our own strength.
We often obsess about what we put into our bodies. Cutter Woods’ animated, innovative Earthly Materials encourages us to explore what comes out.
The Fourth Trimester will help new mothers understand what’s going on with their bodies, their minds and their emotions.
Courtney Gustafson woke up in her new home to find 30 cats living in her yard. She tells their stories in her poignant, beautifully written debut memoir, Poets Square.
Dogged by mental illness, poverty and arrests, Erika J. Simpson’s mother also filled their lives with magic, as told in Simpson’s wonderful debut memoir, This Is Your Mother.
Amanda Hess’ memoir, Second Life, reads like the ruminations and research of your funniest, smartest friend as it investigates the influence of tech on parenting.
Sarah Aziza’s stunning memoir, The Hollow Half, traces her Palestinian family’s history of violent displacement and embraces their legacy of survival and love.
Katie Goh’s memoir-history hybrid, Foreign Fruit, explores the origin story of the orange—and her own identity.
Becky Aikman’s enthralling Spitfires chronicles the lives of American women who piloted British planes during World War II, fighting for their right to a future in the skies.
Mary Annette Pember’s Medicine River is a searing history of dehumanizing and often abusive Indian boarding schools.
William Dalrymple’s magisterial history of Indian trade plumbs the depths of scholarship to reveal a new understanding of the ancient world.
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