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By Bookshop.org

Happy roundup list season to all those who celebrate! Here are a few of our favorites among the many incredible nonfiction books published this year. As the holiday season creeps up on us, these books would make great gifts—and for more ideas, keep an eye out for our upcoming gift guides, or ask your favorite local bookseller!

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy 

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I still have never seen an episode of iCarly but that doesn’t matter. This memoir is such a valuable and profound peek into a mother-daughter relationship that is so textured with emotion and psychological mind games, it’s almost disorienting. McCurdy’s determination to reclaim her life from the hands of an abuser she’s always been hellbent on protecting, and from the disordered eating that came from that relationship, is nothing short of inspiring. Complicated, compassionate, and sometimes comically absurd, this is a great read. —Amanda Rivera

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The Light We Carry

Michelle Obama 

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$32.50

$30.23

Following up on her indie bestselling Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama’s new memoir The Light We Carry offers powerful stories and profound insights on finding our inner light and sharing it with others in order to get through uncertain times. An essential new meditation on finding joy and connection amid chaos. —Andy Hunter

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I Dream of Dinner (so You Don't Have To)

Ali Slagle 

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$27.89

Devotees of the New York Times Cooking world will be thrilled that Ali Slagle has taken the plunge and created her first cookbook. Filled with easy, flavorful dishes for the at-home chef who needs some inspo. —Steph Opitz

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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$26.00

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Hanif Abdurraqib’s collection of music and personal essays is stunning and insightful. He connects personal experience to artistic expression with elegant and vivid writing. From a thrilling account of Prince’s Super Bowl performance to the saga of the Fleetwood Mac album Rumours, each piece is gripping and unexpected. This new hardcover edition, which contains three new essays and a new afterword by Jason Reynolds, looks terrific! —Jacob Schraer

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Dirtbag, Massachusetts

Isaac Fitzgerald 

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$25.11

I wish that I could go back and read this book again for the first time. Isaac Fitzgerald has crafted a memoir that is for all of the misfits. It is for anyone who spent most of their life running from their past and now have to face it. It is eye-opening, brilliant, funny, kind, smart, and a hell of a read. —Katherine Morgan

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Who Is Wellness For?

Fariha Roisin 

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$25.10

This book is a much needed class-conscious critique of the modern “wellness” industry, and an intimate portrayal of a person determined to truly heal. Roisin’s story, though rife with trauma, shines as a hopeful glimpse of what could be when we finally face the things that almost destroyed us and start the demanding journey of becoming whole. Visceral and inspiring, informative and stimulating, Who is Wellness For? urges the reader to push past our capitalist culture’s surface level ideals of health to a more revolutionary and compassionate journey of holistic wellness that dares to better the world. —Amanda Rivera