| |  | | | ‘An unforgettable masterwork from the leading voice in American crime reporting’ (Gilbert King) | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - After decades of cons, Paul Skalnik fed the broken criminal system even more lies — gaining his freedom and helping put multiple innocent men on death row
- An award-winning reporter paints a “spellbinding” portrait (Time) of the remorseless manipulator and audacious jailhouse informant
- “Unfolding in cinematic detail, Catch the Devil offers a riveting and disturbing account” (NPR)
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 | | | A New York Times bestselling manual on defying authoritarianism | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - Based on interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists around the world
- Learn from a student who risked it all for democracy in Hong Kong, an immigrant working to save a US civil rights law, and many more
- “There has never been a more important time for this book” (Booklist)
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 | | | ‘A spirited reconsideration of language as a natural resource’ (Publishers Weekly) | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - How do languages disappear — and can we reclaim them before they’re lost forever?
- From Ecuador to Oman to Italy, travel alongside an award-winning journalist as she seeks to understand what’s at stake as speakers are drawn toward a consolidating list of languages
- “Fascinating… [Smith] Galer casts a bright light on the massive linguistic diversity that the world seems set to lose” (The New York Times)
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 | | | Get the story behind the biggest act of sabotage in modern history | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - In 2022, a secret mission targeted the $20 billion Nord Stream pipeline system under the Baltic Sea — creating worldwide shock waves and a complex geopolitical mystery
- “A high-stakes international war story in blockbuster prose… A spectacular feat of investigative journalism” (The New York Times)
- This New York Times Editors’ Choice is based on unprecedented access to the Ukrainian agents who executed the attack as well as the German investigators of the incident
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 | | | How wild animals adapt to human communities — and how they change them | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - “Enlightening and entertaining, this is a winning snapshot of wildlife that thrives in not-so-wild spaces” (Publishers Weekly)
- From the chirping birds we hear upon waking to the raccoons we protect our garbage from at night, discover how wildlife shapes our sustainability and evolution as a species
- “A wide-ranging, delightfully surprising, and often counterintuitive survey” that “examines… how cities change and are changed by the behavior of the undomesticated animals that make their homes in them” (Kirkus Reviews starred review)
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 | | | NPR calls this ‘an easy must-read’ | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - A Next Big Idea Club pick named a best book of the month by NPR, New Scientist, and more
- Discover how data has functioned as the root of power — from the clay tablets of Mesopotamia to today’s Information Age — and how we can resist the powers that seek to control it
- This “expansive and sobering history of the interplay of human data, conquest, and control” (Kirkus Reviews) serves as “both a historical survey and a call to action” (Booklist)
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 | | | Meet Earth’s most misunderstood creatures in this weird, wondrous exploration of parasites | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - Written by an award-winning entomologist and evolutionary biologist who serves as “an enthusiastic guide” (Kirkus Reviews)
- Learn about how the tapeworm can grow 120 feet in length, how the tsetse fly can pierce crocodile skin, and more
- “Simultaneously repulsive and intriguing, this will strike a chord with the insatiably curious” (Publishers Weekly)
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 | | | Delve into the messy, chaotic reality behind scientific discovery | | WHY IT’S READWORTHY: | - With praise from Pulitzer Prize–winning authors Elizabeth Kolbert (“lively and revelatory”) and Deborah Blum (“the kind of trip you won’t want to miss”)
- Follow passionate scientists and researchers searching for frogs in the Bornean rainforest, seeking signals from outside our solar system, and more
- “A clear-eyed but still inspiring look at the joys and frustrations of being a young scientist” (Library Journal)
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