Books that are targeted at adults but are likely to be of interest to older teens and young adults
Adult-YA Crossover Nonfiction
Recommended books found: 107
Page 1 of 6
-
Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
by Marcus du Sautoy
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
An award-winning mathematician explores the math behind the games we love and why we love to play them.
-
Roman Year: A Memoir
by Andre Aciman
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
-
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
by Tia Levings
Hardcover: Aug 2024
"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me."
-
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.
-
Bitch: On the Female of the Species
by Lucy Cooke
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Paperback: Oct 2023
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom.
-
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
by Cat Bohannon
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Feb 2025
The real origin of our species: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today
-
Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
by Keri Blakinger
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Paperback: Jun 2023
An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey - from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom - and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.
-
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
by Audrey Farley
Hardcover: Apr 2021
Paperback: Apr 2023
For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, a page-turning drama of fortunes, eugenics and women's reproductive rights framed by the sordid court battle between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her socialite mother.
-
Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: Mar 2023
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent ...
-
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
Hardcover: Aug 2019
Paperback: Jan 2023
From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society - and in ourselves.
-
Bloodbath Nation
by Paul Auster
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Feb 2025
An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and "genuine American original" (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration with photographer Spencer Ostrander
-
Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning
by Géraldine Schwarz
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Sep 2022
Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism...
-
The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
by Josh Mitchell
Hardcover: Aug 2021
Paperback: Aug 2022
From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the dramatic, untold story of student debt in America.
-
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
by Judy Batalion
Hardcover: Apr 2021
Paperback: Aug 2022
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance ...
-
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Global Icons Series)
by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams
Hardcover: Oct 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas Abrams, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and ...
-
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
by Shugri Said Salh
Hardcover: Aug 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
"I am the last nomad. My ancestors traveled the East African desert in search of grazing land for their livestock, and the most precious resource of all - water. When they exhausted the land and the clouds disappeared from the horizon, their ...
-
The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It
by Helen Scales
Hardcover: Jul 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
"The oceans have always shaped human lives," writes marine biologist Helen Scales in her vibrant new book The Brilliant Abyss, but the surface and the very edges have so far mattered the most. "However, one way or another, the future ocean is the ...
-
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
by Dawn Turner
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
A "beautiful, tragic, and inspiring" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the ...
-
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
by Scott Ellsworth
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: May 2022
More than one-thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors' offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air.
-
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
by Ashley C. Ford
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: May 2022
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.
The reviewer of each book decides which categories it belongs in - but we're only human, mistakes happen. If you see a book that you think is in the wrong place, tell us!
.png)
