Nonfiction Summer Reading Guide

Get real this summer!

Hello readers!

Summer reading is often described as light, frothy and fun and I’m here to tell you that you can find that in NONFICTION books too!

Grab a cool drink, your sunglasses, and one of the books mentioned below. I dare you to tell me that you didn’t get lost for a few hours and wonder why you don’t read more nonfiction all year long.

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You will find over 75 titles that I’ve read and believe to be beyond basic. Titles are divided into 14 categories. My hope is that you find something that peeks your interest.

Happy nonfiction reading!

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Memoirs

1. Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton

2. Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks

3. The Tell: Oprah's Book Club by Amy Griffin

4. It's What I Do: A Photographers Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario

5. Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Tunde Oyeneyin

6. What We Carry: A Memoir by Maya Shanbhag Lang

7. From the Corner of the Oval: A MemoirFrom by Beck Dorey Stein

8. A Mind Unraveled: A True Story of Disease, Love and Triumph by Kurt Eichenwald

9. Acne: A Memoir by Laura Chinn

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True Crime

1. Tell Me Everything: A Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse

2. There is No Ethan: How Three Woman Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

3. The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy by Andrea Dunlop and Mike Weber

4. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford

5. You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist by Kari Ferrell

6. Stolen: A Memoir by Elizabeth Gilpin

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Girl Power

1. Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope by Amanda Nguyen

2. I'll Look So Hot in a Coffin: And Other Thoughts I Used to Have About My Body by Carla Sosenko

3. I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing and Living by Josie Balka

4. Wordslut: A feminist guide to taking back the English language by Amanda Montell

5. What Kind of Woman: Poems by Kate Baer

6. I'll Be There (But I'll Be Wearing Sweatpants) Finding Unfiltered, Real-Life Friendships in This Crazy, Chaotic World by Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnston

7. Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

8. The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine

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Juicy

1. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson

2. Swipe Up for More! Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers by Stephanie McNeal

3. Spare by Prince Harry

4. You Wanna Be On Top? A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model by Sarah Hartshore (Available July 8th)

5. My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel Deloache Williams

6. Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur

7. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

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Celebrity

1. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

2. Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!) by Bethany Joy Lenz

3. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

4. Nice Girls Don't Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power by Parvati Shallow (Available July 8th)

5. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

6. The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan

7. Tell Me Everything: A Memoir by Minka Kelly

8. Open Book: A Memoir by Jessica Simpson

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Parenting

1. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents by Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

2. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

3. He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe in Himself by Adam Price

4. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein

5. I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott

6. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Dr. Becky Kennedy

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Essays

1. Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman

2. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann

3. Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers by Helena Dea Bala

4. Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by

   Nora McInerny

5. These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett

6. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott

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Medical

1. No Cure For Being Human (and other truths I needed to hear) by Kate Bowler

2. The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle that Saved a Child's Life by Dr. Rachel Clarke

3. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

4. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

5. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

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History

1. Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

2. Obitchuary : The Big Hot Book of Death by Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes

3. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff

4. Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Sobriety

1. Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol by Stephanie Wilder-Taylor

2. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin

3. Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins

4. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger

5. Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch by Erin French

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Personal Development

1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins

2. The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More by Jefferson Fisher

3. Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires by Charlotte Fox Weber

4. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

5. Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. : 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level by Laura Tremaine

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Social Justice

1. The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice by Dan Slepian

2. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

3. A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett

4. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice by Anthony Ray Hinton

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Pop Culture

1. One in A Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy

2. Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

3. You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip by Kelsey McKinney

4. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy

5. Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West

6. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

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Grief

1. A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

2. Widowish: A Memoir by Melissa Gould

3. Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin

4. Late to the Search Party: Poems by Steven Espada Dawson

5. Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder

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