Acknowledging Our Limits: An Exclusive Guest Post from Oliver Burkeman, Author of Four Thousand Weeks, Our July Nonfiction Pick
Life often feels like a race against time, and it’s not uncommon to hear the phrase, “If only there were…
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The Unexpected Gift of a Lifetime: An Exclusive Guest Post From Wright Thompson, Author of Pappyland, Our June Nonfiction Pick
You hardly need to be an expert in whiskey to fall in love with Julian Van Winkle and the wild…
From the Stone Age to the Drone Age: A Guest Post From Simon Sebag Montefiore, Author of The World: A Family History of Humanity
A sweeping and original history of humanity as seen through the families who shaped it. Spanning nearly one million years,…
Breaking Bows: 9 Harrowing Books about Shipwrecks
There are moments in history that are so action-packed, authors and auteurs can’t help but be inspired — and these…
Finding the Endurance: A Guest Post from Mensun Bound, Author of The Ship Beneath the Ice
This is a gripping tale of true-life mystery and true-life action and adventure by the marine archaeologist who headed two…
Understanding Black History & Recognizing Black Icons
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Books are opportunities to learn about…
Symbols Reflect the Stories We Tell: A Guest Post from Clint Smith, Author of How the Word is Passed
A travelogue, a history, a quest, a warning and a call for a reckoning that the history of slavery is…
Celebrating 50 Years of Earth Day: The books inspiring us to make a difference
Earth Day turns 50 this year! And to celebrate this inspiring movement, we’re recalling books, old and new, for all…
Celebrate the Deluxe Signed Edition of Becoming with 15 Inspiring Quotes from Michelle Obama’s Iconic Memoir
A year after the release of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s bestselling memoir Becoming, readers continue to revel in the…
The Best Books of 2019… So Far
The year isn’t over, but so many fantastic new books have already been published, that we would feel amiss if…
100 Books of Summer
Steamy thrillers, delirious fantasies, peeks behind closed doors, classics you’ve been meaning to get to, and new releases everyone will…
3 New Books to Help You Find Meaning and Purpose
What makes your days meaningful? What drives you? What are the gifts you and only you have to share with…
7 Books About Making Time for What Matters
Last year’s resolution to find more time in the day probably wasn’t successful. (If you find a 25th hour, let…
10 Books That Prove People Are Getting Serious About Happiness
When we find ourselves in unsettled times, we turn to books for insight and guidance. And we aren’t the only…
Books in Space: 5 Great Astronaut Memoirs
There’s just no cooler resume line item in the world than “astronaut.” You can take your actors, your rock stars,…
The Best New and Recent True Crime Books
If your sole experience with true crime books was reading In Cold Blood in school, you might be unaware we’re living through…
7 of the Best Irreverent Self-Help Books
Self-help is a nearly ten-billion-dollar industry. By adding a healthy dose of humor and a fresh perspective from today’s real…
6 Funny, Awkward Memoirs By Funny, Awkward Women
The last ten years have seen a surge of funny lady memoirs. When you want the literary equivalent of drinking…
50 Must-Have Coffee Table Books for the Armchair Traveler
For those who know exactly what they would do if they won the lottery (buy a gorgeous house, quit working,…