The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A Cookbook The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A Cookbook Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional I'm Glad My Mom Died The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A Cookbook Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A Cookbook The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times I'm Glad My Mom Died I'm Glad My Mom Died

Bookshop.org Staff Picks: Best Nonfiction of 2022

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

$27.99 $26.03

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

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

Paul Newman

$32.00 $29.76

Compiled using five years’ worth of conversations from the ‘80s, iconic Hollywood actor and pasta sauce mogul Paul Newman’s memoir is here at last. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is an honest, humble, and occasionally humorous account of the highs and lows of the legend’s public and personal lives. —Kevin Chau

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama

$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

I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A Cookbook

I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A Cookbook

Ali Slagle

$29.99 $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

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

$26.00 $24.18

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

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

Isaac Fitzgerald

$27.00 $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

Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

Fariha Roisin

$26.99 $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

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

Michael Schur

$28.99 $26.96

The producer of The Office, The Good Place, and other hit tv series, has the correct answer to every moral question possible, from “Should I punch my friend for no reason?” to “Why bother being good if there are no consequences to being bad?” Delivered with the wry humor that characterizes Schur’s television shows, How to Be Perfect draws on actual moral philosophy to bring thought-provoking, heartfelt, and totally ridiculous insight into our daily struggles. —Kevin Chau