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News on new nonfiction books and recommendations for the best nonfiction books, including historical books, biographies, nonfiction books for kids, and more, from Book Riot.

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Book Trailers – October 13-19, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!  

Music to Read By: A Playlist to Accompany Mary Roach’s PACKING FOR MARS

This is a guest post from Cariwyl Hebert. Cariwyl is the founder of Salon97, a San Francisco-based non-profit that makes ...

Books About Menopause, The Change O’ Life

I thought I’d be jaunty with the title of this post, a wee bit of magic dust unicorn fairyland “change ...

Picking the Favorites in the National Book Award for Nonfiction

When the 2012 National Book Awards nominees were announced last week, I immediately turned to the nonfiction list, which, I ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: October 16, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

“They Reviewed”: Decoding Book Reviews “He Texted”-Style

Book Riot colleague Rebecca Schinsky forwarded me the link to this HORRIFYING new website HeTexted in which girls send in ambiguous ...

The Perfect Gift of Books

A while ago I wrote about receiving the ill-suited book as a present, in my case it was Knit Your ...

Dangerous Liaisons: Books About Madness & Obsessions

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Bloodletter’s Daughter by Linda Lafferty. In 1606, the city of Prague shines as a ...

Baby Animals Read THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: JOSEPH ANTON by Salman Rushdie

From Donna Rifkind’s review of Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie Want to see more baby animals read The New York ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Book Trailers – October 6-12, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!