Everyone loves a good story, and that includes kids! But the best stories aren’t always fiction—often, nonfiction can be just ...

The best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the unthinkable. Salman Rushdie describes the violent attack that nearly killed him.

Each year we publish more than 175 new books for adults, families, and children on a wide range of nonfiction subjects from animals to travel, cartography to history, fun facts to moving stories.

This spectrum also covers textbooks, biographies, popular science books, non-fiction books for children and adolescents, as well as many other subgenres. Non-fiction studies is a new discipline at the ...