Nonfiction

Newsweek's staff shares personal recommendations for the best books of 2023 to give...or receive.

Newsweek staff have gathered together to recommend the perfect reading material for anyone on your gift list with a roundup of our own favorite books from the past year. From rom-coms to true-crime, politics to music, investigative journalism to humor, find the ideal story to give or to add to your own wishlist!

Jillian Haslam tells the inspiring story of her childhood in her book, and is now recognized for her humanitarian work with people living in poverty.

Newsweek has recommendations for enticing new reads coming out in the next few months. Reserve these 22 picks at your library or pre-order now so you'll have a steady supply of great fiction and nonfiction to start 2022 off right.

Here are Newsweek's picks for the best books of 2021, fiction and nonfiction treasures that helped us get through another challenging year. ­

From thrillers to cookbooks and tech to good old-fashioned literary fiction, Newsweek has you covered with our book gift guide.

This excerpt from "Dear William," David Magee's new memoir, tells the story of a family ripped apart by addiction and trauma but rebuilt through love and faith.

Newsweek has put together our list of the most anticipated fiction and nonfiction due to arrive this fall.

This season's titles include a hefty dose of books about books and white collar business tales that read more like thrillers than nonfiction. This list will keep you entertained long after summer ends.

Newsweek has chosen some of the best new fiction and nonfiction available this Spring for your reading pleasure.

Enjoy the rare pleasure of turning the crisp pages of some of these intriguing books coming out in the first half of the year. Newsweek has chosen some of the best new fiction and nonfiction for your reading pleasure.

Having trouble picking out the perfect gift for everyone on your list? Did you wait till the last minute? Never fear, Newsweek has curated a list of book choices for you, with a selection of photo essays, biographies, novels, thrillers and more.

Our list of the most anticipated fiction and nonfiction due to arrive this fall. From tales of immigrants finding their way in America to visionary science fiction, from a biography of iconic chef James Beard to the real lives of Neanderthals, there are mental vacations here for everyone.

Dive into a new world of literature with Newsweek's top 30 picks to read during these final lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.

The pioneering feminist author would have been 136 today. She took her own life, at 59, in 1941.

From Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen's satirical Trump memoir to Ron Chernow's next biography.

David France's book illuminates the lives of the extraordinary people who helped turn HIV from a mostly fatal infection into a manageable disease.

"I figured either I had cancer, in which case this might be the last time I would see my friends, or I didn't, in which case there was no reason to cancel."

The list includes fiction titles like "The Girls" and "The Underground Railroad," and nonfiction ones like "Blood in the Water" and "Dark Money."

2016 winners also included Ibram X. Kendi in nonfiction; Daniel Borzutzky in poetry; and John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell in young people's literature.

"The Boys in the Bunkhouse," by Dan Barry, tells the unbelievable but true story of a turkey processing plant's house of horrors in Iowa.

Additional winners include 'The Sympathizer' by Viet Thanh Nguyen in fiction and the Associated Press in the public service journalism category.

From a history of Pakistan to a Polish reckoning, these were the best international nonfiction books of the year.

The National Book Foundation also announces winners in poetry and young people's literature.

They include MacArthur fellow Ta-Nehisi Coates and Pulitzer Prize winners Tracy K. Smith and Adam Johnson.

"Between the World and Me" is among a list of candidates revealed Wednesday.

The Man Booker Prize short list and the second of four National Book Award long lists were revealed Tuesday.

The great deserts of the American West are the setting of several new nonfiction books.

The legendary punk maven will release 'M Train'—the follow-up to her award-winning 'Just Kids'—on October 6.

Though far from exhaustive, this twenty-book list is a small glimpse at the books we read and loved in 2014.