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 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. ... a true candidate for the All-Time Desert
Island Top 5 Books About Pop Music." Chuck Klosterman says it's “the
happiest, saddest, greatest book about rock n’ roll that I’ve ever
experienced.”
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
Twenty-one 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.
Patrick Lencioni
Getting Naked
Jossey-Bass
Getting Naked is "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.
Dan Ariely
The Upside of Irrationality
Harper/HarperCollins
This is the second New York Times bestseller by the Duke and MIT behavioral economist. Following in the footsteps of Predictably Irrational, this book looks at the positive impact of irrationality in our lives. The New York Times Book Review writes, “[D]eciding how to apply his insights is a pleasure that lingers long after the book is finished. ‘Ask questions,’ he says. ‘Explore. Turn over rocks.’ What lies in wait is a better understanding of your own irrational mind.”
Gary Marcus
Guitar Zero
Penguin Press
On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Gary Marcus, a renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone—of any age—can become musical. A groundbreaking peek into the origins of music in the human brain, this odyssey is also an empowering tale of the mind’s enduring plasticity. Steven Pinker calls Marcus “one of the deepest thinkers in cognitive science” and Paul Bloom writes, “if you have ever dreamed of becoming a musician, you must read Guitar Zero.”