This is a list of the upcoming 2021 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books, limited to hardcover new releases. I’ll be updating this list as more titles are announced, so stay tuned for more!
Bill Gates’s How to Avoid a Climate Disaster and the The Cult of We, a book about the WeWork fiasco, are probably the two titles that interest me that most.
Will you be reading any of these books? If there’s a something you think belongs on this list, please do drop me a line!
For more books coming soon, see the list of Upcoming New Release Books.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
What It's About: Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems. He explains how the world can work to build the tools it needs to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions - investing in research, inventing new technologies and deploying them quickly at a large scale...Publication Date: February 16, 2021
What It's About: Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems. He explains how the world can work to build the tools it needs to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions - investing in research, inventing new technologies and deploying them quickly at a large scale...Publication Date: February 16, 2021
The Code Breaker
What It's About: The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed...Publication Date: March 9, 2021
What It's About: The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed...Publication Date: March 9, 2021
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
What It's About: Ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer
Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous; a visit to San Simeon; being rejected by Stanford; dropping in on Nancy Reagan, wife of the then-governor of California, while a TV crew filmed her at home; and an evening at the annual reunion of WWII veterans from the 101st Airborne Association at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas...Publication Date: January 26, 2021
What It's About: Ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer
Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous; a visit to San Simeon; being rejected by Stanford; dropping in on Nancy Reagan, wife of the then-governor of California, while a TV crew filmed her at home; and an evening at the annual reunion of WWII veterans from the 101st Airborne Association at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas...Publication Date: January 26, 2021
The Soul of a Woman
What It's About: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman.
"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without "resources or voice...Publication Date: March 2, 2021
What It's About: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman.
"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without "resources or voice...Publication Date: March 2, 2021
Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
What It's About: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson comes her most personal book yet.
As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor...Publication Date: April 13, 2021
What It's About: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson comes her most personal book yet.
As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor...Publication Date: April 13, 2021
Aftershocks
What It's About: This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu grapples with the fault lines of identity, the meaning of home, black womanhood, and the ripple effects, both personal and generational, of emotional trauma.
Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world—from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala...Publication Date: January 12, 2021
What It's About: This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu grapples with the fault lines of identity, the meaning of home, black womanhood, and the ripple effects, both personal and generational, of emotional trauma.
Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world—from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala...Publication Date: January 12, 2021
A Relevant Faith: Searching for a Meaningful American Christianity
What It's About: Publication Date: October 19, 2021
What It's About: Publication Date: October 19, 2021
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation: Young Reader's Edition
What It's About: Publication Date: January 19, 2021
What It's About: Publication Date: January 19, 2021
Homo Irrealis: Essays
What It's About: The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works
Irrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a certain situation or action is not known to have happened ...Publication Date: January 19, 2021
What It's About: The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works
Irrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a certain situation or action is not known to have happened ...Publication Date: January 19, 2021
The Cult of We
What It's About: The riveting inside story of WeWork and the brash founder who briefly turned it into the country's most valuable startup before his own epic unraveling, from the Wall Street Journal reporters whose scoops hastened the company's downfall.
In 2001, Adam Neumann arrived in New York after five years as a conscript in the Israeli navy...Publication Date: May 4, 2021
What It's About: The riveting inside story of WeWork and the brash founder who briefly turned it into the country's most valuable startup before his own epic unraveling, from the Wall Street Journal reporters whose scoops hastened the company's downfall.
In 2001, Adam Neumann arrived in New York after five years as a conscript in the Israeli navy...Publication Date: May 4, 2021
Good to Know the list of upcoming books.. will look forward to get “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”…
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I just added like five of these to my TBR. Thank you so much for sharing! How did I miss that Jenny Lawson has a new book coming!? I loved Furiously Happy.
What a great and varied list!! I’m especially looking forward to the Isabel Allende and the book about WeWork. Thanks so much for sharing these!
The Cult of We has definitely snagged my eye, I love books and docs about corporate scandals. Great lineup!