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: In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change...Publication Date: February 16, 2021
What It's About: In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change...Publication Date: February 16, 2021
The Code Breaker
What It's About: 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. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would...Publication Date: March 9, 2021
What It's About: 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. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would...Publication Date: March 9, 2021
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
What It's About: From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.
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: From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.
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 bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more" (Associated Press).
"The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende's most liberating book yet."--Elle
"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende...Publication Date: January 1, 2020
What It's About: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes "a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more" (Associated Press).
"The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende's most liberating book yet."--Elle
"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende...Publication Date: January 1, 2020
Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
What It's About: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.
As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way...Publication Date: April 6, 2021
What It's About: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.
As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way...Publication Date: April 6, 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
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation: Young Reader's Edition
What It's About: The American Book Award winner, now completely adapted for a young adult audience!
From award-winning author Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop is the story of hip-hop, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever.
Hip hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in America, giving new voice to the younger generation...Publication Date: March 16, 2021
What It's About: The American Book Award winner, now completely adapted for a young adult audience!
From award-winning author Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop is the story of hip-hop, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever.
Hip hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in America, giving new voice to the younger generation...Publication Date: March 16, 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 a category of verbal moods that indicate that certain events have not happened, may never happen, or should or must or are indeed desired to happen, but for which there is no indication that they will ever happen...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 a category of verbal moods that indicate that certain events have not happened, may never happen, or should or must or are indeed desired to happen, but for which there is no indication that they will ever happen...Publication Date: January 19, 2021
The Cult of We
What It's About: The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company's epic unraveling exposes about Silicon Valley's delusions and the financial system's desperate hunger to cash in--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: July 20, 2021
What It's About: The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company's epic unraveling exposes about Silicon Valley's delusions and the financial system's desperate hunger to cash in--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: July 20, 2021
Languages of Truth: Nonfiction 2003-2020
What It's About: Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction--including many texts never previously in print--from the first two decades of the twenty-first century by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author.
Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose...Publication Date: January 6, 2021
What It's About: Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction--including many texts never previously in print--from the first two decades of the twenty-first century by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author.
Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose...Publication Date: January 6, 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!