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22 Nonfiction Titles You Should Consider Reading in Autumn
Essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates; memoirs by Alexei Navalny, Ina Garten and Cher; and dispatches from the mind of a Nobel laureate are among this season’s most anticipated offerings.
Updated 2024-Oct-03 10:34
She is smiling and looking off to the right. The cover of “Lovely One” is a photograph of Ketanji Brown Jackson wearing a yellow jacket over a gray shirt, with a large gold dragonfly brooch on her chest.
In this memoir Angela Merkel who served as Germany s first female chancellor from 2005 to 2021 delves into her challenging political journey shedding light on her experiences with freedom.
Notable points consist of memories from her time in East Germany prior to the Berlin Wall s downfall accounts of meetings with various world leaders explanations for her actions during international crises and insights into the workings of power in Europe.
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Have you ever thought about what goes on in the mind of a Nobel Prize winner? This assortment of observations and sketches provides a glimpse.
Taken from Pamuk s 13 year collection of notes it provides insight into the Turkish author s characters and novels as well as reflections on travel writing family and nationalism.
26 CherImage Cher by Cher: How can one encapsulate the life of such an iconic woman who is a musical powerhouse fashion icon and star of both the big and small screens without even needing a last name? It seems that one book is not enough: This memoir is only the beginning of Cher s story with a second volume scheduled for release next year.
As vacations wrap up and classes resume trade in those sandy beach reads for more ambitious fare this fall.
If you’re desperate for a break from politics it is an election year after all look for dispatches from the mind of Orhan Pamuk the latest humanistic work from Yuval Noah Harari and tell alls by Connie Chung Alex Van Halen and Lisa Marie Presley.
If you’d rather lean into the political season you might pick up biographies of John Lewis and Mitch McConnell or memoirs by Ketanji Brown Jackson Alexei Navalny and Angela Merkel.
Ta Nehisi Coates returns with an essay collection on collective mythmaking and an alarming account by Porter Fox warns of coming superstorms.
Find these and others among our most anticipated nonfiction books of the fall. See our fiction and poetry picks.
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19 Image The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer illustrated by John BurgoyneIn her 2013 hit Braiding Sweetgrass Kimmerer a Potawatomi botanist and writer explored the interconnectedness between humans and the natural world using Indigenous knowledge.
In this instance she contemplates comparable ideas while gathering fruit from the serviceberry tree which she identifies as a pleasant symbol of our mutual reliance: All thriving is shared.
19 Image Carson the Magnificent by Bill Zehme with Mike Thomas. Upon first profiling Johnny Carson in 2002 Zehme discovered the iconic host of The Tonight Show to be unexpectedly shy succinct and introverted.
Zehme who passed away.
