At 国产吃瓜黑料, we鈥檙e always receiving stacks of books in the mail, hearing about new books, and reading books鈥攁nd then we pare it down to one stack of good books and recommend them to you. This season鈥檚 new releases offer a true hodgepodge of subjects. We鈥檙e here to guide you to the one that鈥檒l fit the reading mood you鈥檙e in.
If You鈥檙e Down to Read a Memoir鈥
鈥nd Want to Feel Good About the World
Endurance runner Mirna Valerio recounts her battle against runner stereotypes (skinny, white, totally knows the lingo) in ($15; Grand Harbor Press).
鈥nd Want to Feel Stressed Out the Entire Time
($28; Thomas Dunne Books) by Brett Archibald ranks high among worst-case scenarios. Archibald blacks out and falls off a boat in the middle of the night, and no one realizes he鈥檚 missing for eight hours.
鈥nd Now You Need Something to Soothe Your Nerves
Remember Noah Strycker, the extreme birder who Eva Holland on his journey to see as many species as possible in a year? ($27; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is his account of the effort.
If You鈥檙e Interested in Climate Change鈥
鈥nd Want to Hear Some Good News Today
Gleb Raygorodetsky, an ecological researcher who works with indigenous communities around the world, shares the ingenious ways they鈥檙e responding to a changing climate in ($29; Pegasus Books).
鈥nd Want to Hear Maybe-Good-News About Millennia from Now
($28; Public Affairs Books) by Chris D. Thomas is about as optimistic as the title implies. Yes, we are in the midst of another mass-extinction event, for which humans are very responsible, but life always finds a way.
If You鈥檙e a History Nerd鈥
鈥specially If There鈥檚 Espionage
国产吃瓜黑料 contributor Josh Dean brings us a wild Cold War story鈥攚e鈥檒l just let you read the title: ($28; Dutton).
鈥specially If It鈥檚 Inspiring
($27; Crown) by Roseanne Montillo starts with the story of a runner who won gold and became the fastest woman in the world at the 1928 Olympics. But that鈥檚 only the first part of the book.
鈥specially If It鈥檚 Weird
In ($2; Kindle), 国产吃瓜黑料 contributor Eva Holland writes about a group of Italians who traveled to the North Pole in a semirigid balloon in the late 1920s, which really happened, is as dangerous as it sounds, and goes deeper than your average polar exploration story.
鈥specially If It鈥檚 Super Recent
In ($1; Kindle), 国产吃瓜黑料 contributor Patrick Symmes tells the story of Cuba in the year 2016鈥攚hich is the year both President Obama and the Rolling Stones visited the country, and when Fidel Castro passed away, as the name implies. Symmes knows his stuff: He also wrote .
If You鈥檙e Currently Thinking, 鈥淚 Didn鈥檛 Come Here to Read Anything!鈥
($26; Falcon Guides) is our ode to the most amazing images we鈥檝e published in our 40 years and the stories behind them. Okay, you鈥檒l do a little reading.