New Buzzy Nonfiction Still to Come in 2025

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Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over at #BookSquadGoals (www.booksquadgoals.com). She can be reached at emily.ecm@gmail.com.

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We’re officially halfway through 2025. The year has gone by so fast, and there have been many notable book releases in the first half of the year. But there is still so much to look forward to this summer and fall.

Here are three buzz-worthy nonfiction books coming out later this year for your towering TBR consideration.

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Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 19)

This isn’t just another biography about James Baldwin, acclaimed writer and civil rights activist. In Baldwin: A Love Story, Nicholas Boggs set out to explore James Baldwin’s life and works through his intimate relationships: his mentor, the painter Beauford Delaney; Lucien Happersberger, a Swiss painter who was Baldwin’s lover and muse; and his collaborators, actor Engin Cezzar and the French artist Yoran Cazac. “From the very beginning,” Boggs writes that he knew this book was “a love story.”

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We’re Alone by Edwidge Danticat (Gray Wolf, September 2)

In this new collection of essays, Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat mixes personal narratives and reporting to explore environmental issues, colonialism, motherhood, and more. Danticat’s essays start back with her childhood in New York City when she knew very little English. Then she moves forward to the COVID-19 virus and recent events in Haiti, connecting her personal experiences to more global concerns.

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Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith (Penguin, October 30)

Best-selling and critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Zadie Smith has a new essay collection coming out in late October. Smith’s essays cover a wide range of topics that have captured the author’s attention lately: films like Tár, Queen Elizabeth II, Michael Jackson, Toni Morrison, political issues on both sides of the Atlantic, and much more.

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