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Let history remember that this year in nonfiction books began with the entire world reading about Prince Harryspenile frostbite.
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A thrilling and complicated time this was!
ButSpareis not the last word in nonfiction.
Then theres a stunning study of heartbreak from Camonghne Felix.
Plus, the best book you will ever read about hot dogs.
So get out your library card, if for some reason you dont have your 16-digit number memorized.
Overflow your digital cart.
Below areGlamours favorite nonfiction books of 2023those that have been published and those to come.
Drinking was Levys escape from vulnerability, she writes.
This beautifully vulnerable book is a gift to anyone whos done escaping.
She concludes every chapter with an opportunities for action section.
Opting in means dealing with some flat-out fuckery, she writes of app dating.
If your budget doesnt quite cover a personal dating coach, this is the next best thing.
Dont let anyone tell you otherwise.
Its nice not to be alone when we do so, and Felix makes the ideal companion.
It can therefore be confronted.
Matthewss book is, instead, a love letter.
An abortion doula, activist, parent, and writer, Matthews reports from clinics turned battlegrounds.
Let Matthews teach you, invite you, and love you with this book.
We come to Samantha Irby to laugh, to cry, to care.
Because we need that.
I absolutely do not!
Loftus, a stand-up comedian and podcaster, blends incisive cultural analysis, gross-out humor, and personal storytelling.
Her insights are priceless and laugh-out-loud.
Buy two copies of this book: one for yourself and one for your best friend.
The Elissasby Samantha Leach
The Elissas by Samantha Leach
Elissa.
Three girls, raised in different upper-middle-class suburbs, who got into what their communities labeled trouble.
Three girls, sent to a therapeutic boarding school, part of the Troubled Teen industry.
Three girls who died, one after another, over just a few years.
The loss is enormous, and Leach painstakingly, lovingly, braids their stories into one indelible work.
Why do we champion those girls who Look the part and discard those who dont?
And what does it all mean about American society?
Will girls save us?
Or is it possible that we might build a better world for them?
You dont have to know your NWHLs from your WTAs to be gripped.
None have come close to the comedic perfection Lillian Stone nails again and again inEverybodys Favorite.
(If youre reading a book, youre all three, baby.)
Validating and illuminating, this book is a balm to those of who were born nervous.
