Non-Fiction
As you'll see in the list to your left, we work in every category of nonfiction -- from award-winning narrative stories, to cutting-edge science from the world's leading academics, to humor, to the hottest pop culture writers and critics, to prescriptive titles that show you how to lead a better life.
To learn more, click on any category for a page featuring six representative titles, along with a description of what we're looking for.
Rob Sheffield
Love Is A Mix Tape
Crown/Random House
Music and love are one and the same in this heartfelt memoir by pop
culture journalist and Rolling Stone
contributing editor Rob Sheffield. Love
is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time uses the power
of pop music to tell the story of Sheffield’s devoted relationship to
his late wife, Renée. Kirkus
calls the book “a lightly-handed, skillful and sincere celebration of
pop, of love, sad songs, bad songs and the long, nearly unbearable ache
of being a young widower. Witty and wise; a true candidate for the
All-Time Desert Island Top 5 Books About Pop Music." Chuck Klosterman
calls the book “the happiest, saddest, greatest book about rock n’ roll
that I’ve ever experienced.”
Ellen Gallinsky
Mind In the Making
HarperStudio/HarperCollins
The president of the Families and Work Institute synthesizes cutting-edge research to offer what Publishers Weekly calls “a readable and accessible volume enlivened by parents' narratives about what works and what doesn't, hints and tips, and over a hundred suggestions (games and family activities) for involving kids in the pursuit of learning. … Galinsky's everyday, playful, parent-child learning interactions offer a place to start. …a valuable, worthwhile resource.”
Chuck Klosterman
Eating the Dinosaur
Scribner / Simon & Schuster
In his newest collection of essays, Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he's dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan's inevitably hate their favorite band's latest album, or why we love watching can't-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It's amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it's incredibly funny.
The Onion
Our Front Pages
Scribner / Simon & Schuster
21 Years of greatness, virtue, and moral rectitude from America's Finest News Source. As the first decade of this new millennium has drawn to a close, Our Front Pages shows the best headlines and articles from the first two decades of The Onion.
Chris Santella
Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
A classic for passionate golfers and armchair travelers, this book
presents the world's greatest golf venues, the personal favorites of
renowned players, course architects, and other experts in the sport.
From Ballyliffin, Ireland's northernmost course, whose rumpled fairways
wander along the North Sea in the shadows of Glashedy Rock, to New
Zealand's Cape Kidnappers, perched atop dramatic cliffs some 500 feet
above the ocean, the book's beautiful photographs capture what makes
these courses standouts for ardent golfers.
Patrick Lencioni
Getting Naked
Jossey-Bass
"Another extraordinary business fable"--this one about the power of vulnerability--"written in the same dynamic style as Lencioni's previous bestsellers, including The Five Dysfunctions of A Team," according to 800-CEO-READS's Jack Covert.