Top 10 Non-Fiction Must-Reads

Explore insightful and inspiring non-fiction books that inform, engage, and transform perspectives.

Introducing Our Must-Read Nonfiction Books: Expand Your Knowledge and Ignite Your Curiosity

Welcome to our collection of top-selling nonfiction books! We have carefully curated a selection of titles that offer profound insights, enlightening perspectives, and inspiring true stories. Whether you're seeking personal growth, exploring fascinating historical events, or delving into the depths of science and technology, our must-read nonfiction books have something for everyone. 

From thought-provoking memoirs and captivating biographies to groundbreaking scientific discoveries and social commentaries, these books will take you on a journey of exploration and expansion of knowledge. As you peruse the pages of these remarkable works, you'll encounter extraordinary individuals, gain a deeper understanding of our world, and uncover new ideas that will challenge and inspire you. 

Get ready to engage with these compelling narratives, thoughtfully researched investigations, and powerful accounts shaping the nonfiction landscape in 2023. So, open your mind, embrace your curiosity, and embark on a thrilling intellectual adventure with our must-read nonfiction books.

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1. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

"A true-crime masterpiece." —Don Winslow, #1 bestselling author of The Force, The Cartel, and City on Fire

From the FBI's former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America's highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative's hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.

In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today, at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the "Truck Stop Killer," who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and "The Interstate Strangler," who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a particular unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. In many cases, the victims—often at-risk women—are picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction, sexually assaulted and murdered in another, and dumped along a highway in a third place. The transient nature of the offenders and the multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve.

Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent, Frank Figliuzzi investigates the most terrifying cases. He also rides in a big rig with a long-haul trucker for thousands of miles, gaining an intimate understanding of the life and habits of drivers and their roadside culture. He interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes and their inspiring efforts to now help others avoid similar fates.

Long Haul is a gripping exploration of a violent, disordered world hiding in plain sight and the heroes racing to end the horror. It will forever unsettle how you travel on the road.

2. Transitional by Munroe Bergdorf

      "Ide" Identity'slution through transformative journeys."

Ge" is the wise, life-changing group that is groundbreaking from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf.

Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are.

As time goes on, we all develop as people. None of us ever becomes someone else entirely—regardless of how we identify—but nor do we stay the same forever. We all transition. It's It's binds us, not what separates us.

In Transitional, activist and writer Munroe Bergdorf draws on her experience and theory from critical experts, change-makers, and activists to reveal how deeply ingrained transitioning is in human experience.

This is a book to help bring us closer to a shared consciousness: a powerful guide to how our differences can be harnessed as a tool to heal, build community, and construct a better society.

          

3  You Are Not Alone by Cariad Lloyd

    "Discover" solace within shared stories."

When Ca"iad Lloyd was just fifteen, she became the person whose dad had died, a mess of emotions and questions. She turned to the Five Stages of Grief model for guidance but found its framework of loss was hard to reconcile with her messy and non-linear experience of grief.

In this wise and witty book, Cariad shares her grief road map - a collection of years of profound insights from experts and guests featured on her podcast, Grief Cast - to remind us that you cannot do grief wrong. The flexibility of the map acknowledges that no two experiences of grief are the same and assists us in building a life around our grief.

So, welcome to the club. We know you didn't didn't here. Ut you will be okay. Because you are not alone.

        

4. killjoy by Julie Garwood

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Avery Delaney has tried to put the past far behind her. Abandoned by her rapacious, conniving mother when she was only three days old, Avery was raised by her grandmother and beloved aunt Carolyn.

Then, when she was 10, she saw her grandmother murdered in cold blood before Avery herself was shot and left for dead. Miraculously, she survived. The killer was soon caught, convicted, and is currently serving a life sentence in Florida. His traumatic experience propels Avery into a life of law and order.

Her razor-sharp mind and ability to gather data and decipher evidence have made Avery an expert crime analyst for the FBI. Soon, however, she will have to use every one of her skills in a case that hits her painfully close to home.

Avery's wAvery'sic aunt, Carolyn Salvetti, is sure her (soon-to-be-ex) husband sent her the gold embossed reservation to the posh Utopia Spa in the mountains of Colorado. At first, she is resistant, but then she figures it will be a welcome respite from the cutthroat advertising business, not to mention a networking extravaganza. Plus, she persuaded her niece to join her for two weeks of luxury and decadence.

But Carolyn never makes it to Utopia. Under false pretenses, she is taken to an isolated retreat by a handsome stranger with a dazzling smile, suave demeanor, and the darkest motives. Its name is Monk, a hired assassin. With scant clues and fewer resources, Avery must track down and save Carolyn - and outmaneuver a brilliant killer who is part of an elaborate plot of madness and lethal vengeance.

          

5. Un-processed by Kimberley Wilson

   How the Food We Eat Is Fueling Our Mental Health Crisis

  Brought to you by Penguin.

We all know that, as a nation, our mental health is in crisis. But what most don't do is that a critical ingredient in this debate and a crucial part of the solution—what we eat—is being ignored.

Nutrition influences what we feel, who we become, and how we behave more than we could ever have imagined. It affects everything from our decision-making to aggression and violence. Ye mental health disorders are overwhelmingly treated as 'mind' problems as if the physical brain—and how we feed it—is irrelevant. So, one suffering from depression is more likely to be asked about their relationship with their mother than their relationship with food.

In this eye-opening and impassioned book, psychologist Kimberley Wilson draws on startling new research—as well as her own work in prisons, schools, and hospitals around the country—to reveal the role of food and nutrients in brain development and mental health: from how the food a woman eats during pregnancy influences the size of her baby's bbaby'sand hunger makes you mean; to how nutrient deficiencies change your personality.

We must also recognize poor nutrition as a social injustice, with the poorest and most vulnerable being systematically ignored. We need to talk about what our food is doing to our brains. We need decisive action, not over-rehearsed soundbites and empty promises, from those in power—because things can only get worse if we don't.

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6. The Wager: by  David Grann

 A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

   On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. In side were emaciated men who barely lived and had an extraordinary tale to tell. h  were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship, the British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all t"e oceans,” it had wrecked on"a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. After being marooned for months and facing starvation, the men built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. Hey, we were greeted as heroes.

But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. His boat contained just three castaways, and the story was very different. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes but mutineers. He first Heoup responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. t became clear that while stranded on the island, the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. s accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. He stak Heere life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. rann’snonfiction of the world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian. His portrayal of tO'Brianaways’ desperate straitcastaways'p to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. In Asnn’s work, the increAsnn'stwists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.

     

7.   Little Give by Marina Benjamin

    The unsung, unseen, undone work of women

In Marina Benjamin’s new essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed ‘women’s work.’ from women cleaning to ringing for an aging reading, A Little Give depicts domestic life anew: a site of paradox and conflict but also of solace and profound meaning. Creativity sits alongside se -erasure, resentment with tenderness, and the animal self is never far away, perpetually threatening to break through.

Drawing on the work of figures such as Natalia Ginzburg, Paula Rego, and Virginia Woolf, Benjamin writes with fierce dour of the struggle to overwrite the gender conditioning that pulls her back into ‘the mud-world of pre feminism’ even as she attempts to haul herself out. From her upbringing as the child of immigrants with fixed traditional values to looking after her mother and seeing her teenager move out of home, she examines her relationships with her family, community, body, and language. Ultimately, a woman’s work must be the heart of her humanity in pursuing transformation and profound acceptance.

       

8. I'm Black, So You Don’t Have To Be by Colin Grant    "Perspectives bridging cult"real understanding."

A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of the West Indian British experience' An important and timely book GUARDIAN' Grant writes with the mischievous, dramatic flair of a natural storyteller' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, Booker Prize-winning author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER' Refined yet unflinching' 'UNDAY TIMES' I'm black, 'o you don't h'vI'mo be,' Colin Grdon't uncle Castu' used tGrant'shim. Or Colin, born in Britain to Jamai's parents, was supposed to be different. He was told that if he worked hard and became a doctor, his race would become invisible. he reality turned out to be very different. History is told through a series of intimate intergenerational portraits. e meet Grant's mother, Ethlyn, who is disgruntled by working-class life in Luton and dreams of returning to Jamaica; his father, Bageye, a maverick and small-time ganja dealer with a violent temper; his sister Selma, Selma,  who refashioned herself as an African princess. Achcha Achr, we meet, is navigating its own path. Ach lif Achorms Grant's own shifting se se of identity. Collectively or built into a poignant and insightful testimony of the black British experience, it is an unforgettable exploration of family, identity, race, genes, and rational change.

         

9. Pare by Prince Harry

    "Revealing ro l truths, fi"ding purpose."

  It was one of the most "earing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the worlmother'sd in sorrow—and horror. s Princess Diana was laid to rest, one wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must have been thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from then on.

For Harry, this is that story at last.

Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more severe Heir. Rief changed everything. e struggled with school, struggled with her, with loneliness—and, because he blamed the press for his mother’s death, he strugglemother'sept life in the spotlight.

At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. His discipline gave him structure, and his combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, s suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn’t find true love.  
Couldn't Meghan. The couple’s cinematic romance at their fa y-tale wedding swept the world away. Ut from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subject to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Matching watching suffer, their safety, and mental health at ri k, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history from repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Ver, the Veruries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. His last Henry, in fact, had been his mother. . . .

Prince Harry tells his story for the first time, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. Landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

10. snowflake by Lucy Nichol

Breaking Through Mental Health Stereo pes and StigStigmas is NOT a book of rules or statistics.

It will NOT tell you what you can and can’t say to someone with a mental health problem – or to anyone for that matter.
It WILL increase your understanding and empower you to stop stigStigmaits tracks.
Take a deep dive into some of the most harmful mental health stereotypes with mental health advocate and author Lucy Nichol.
Lucy exposes 10 of the most harmful mental health stereotypes and explores the impact of social media, the power of the press, and how mental health is represented in popular culture.
With the help of experts and the voices of those affected by these harmful perspectives, Lucy makes a case for how we can dismantle stigStigmae and for all.
Foreword by Sue Baker OBE.  ontributocontributors NatashaDevon MBE, Jonny Benjamin MBE, Hope Virgo, Cara Lisette and Dr C, Craig Malkin.

11. hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

A Memoir

Navigating identity, breaking barriers.

When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing in another role as an overachiever and class clown. Orn in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place like he owns desires and dreams don’t matter, and it’s easy not to hide in sight. o, disappear,r. ut one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Marya that changes everything: When Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her. Would Ma Ouldun be interested in men and like Lamya?
 
From that moment on, Lamya makes sense of her struggles and triumphs by comparing her experiences with some of the most famous stories in the Quran. He juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the pharaoh; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing on the faith and hope Nuh needed to construct his ark, begins to build a life of her own—ultimately finding that the answer to her lifelong quest for community and belonging lies in owning her identity as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant.
 
This searingly intimate memoir in essays, spanning Lamya’s childhood to her Lamya's in the United States for college through early-adult life in New York City, tells a universal story of courage, trust, and love, celebrating what it means to be a seeker and an architect of one’s own life.

       One's. f You Tell by Gregg Olsen

A True Story of Murder, Family Srets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

After over a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word, mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggerineagle'sies that have been their secret since childhood. until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their far house in Richmond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through Nikki, Sami and Tori develop a defiant bond that makes them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark mother, sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.

Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor’s story of absolsurvivor'snd the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight fo. Sisters fosters victims no more, they found a light in the da kness that made them the resilient women they are today—loving, loved, and moving on.