Must-Read Nonfiction Books Launching in February 2025

Here are notable nonfiction books releasing in February 2025. These titles are nominees for Season 26 of the Next Big Idea Club.

Curators Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink will review the selections and choose finalists.

Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles

By Mike Colias
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Reverse the Search: How to Turn Job Seeking into Job Shopping

By Madeline Mann
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI

By David Hajdu
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling

By Henry Lien
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Shift: Managing Your Emotions–So They Don’t Manage You

By Ethan Kross
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy

By Ronald Deibert
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

How to Win at Travel

By Brian Kelly
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America

By Jeff Hobbs
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

By Sahil Bloom
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

No One Is Self-Made: Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life

By Lakeysha Hallmon
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team

By Paula Davis
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel

By Loretta Ross
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

By Judith Giesberg
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy

By Julian Baggini
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Memorial Days: A Memoir

By Geraldine Brooks
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free Yourself Up to Perform

By Steve Magness
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Mind Your Body: A Revolutionary Program to Release Chronic Pain and Anxiety

By Nicole Sachs
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy

By Jonathan Rauch
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

By Sophia Rosenfeld
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness

By Vladimir Miskovic & Steven Jay Lynn
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life

By Shigehiro Oishi
Publication Date: February 4, 2025

What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society

By Rina Bliss
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case for Discretion

By Barry Lam
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

Raising Calm Kids in a World of Worry: Tools to Ease Anxiety and Overwhelm

By Ashley Graber & Maria Evans
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience

By Tamika Mallory
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances

By Kevin Fagan
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication

By Andrew Brodsky
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children’s Health

By Adam Ratner
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing

By Mary-Frances O’Connor
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

The Social Biome: How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us

By Andy Merolla & Jeffrey Hall
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future

By Cass Sunstein
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words

By Michael Erard
Publication Date: February 11, 2025

Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance

By James Fadiman & Jordan Gruber
Publication Date: February 18, 2025

The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness

By William von Hippel
Publication Date: February 18, 2025

Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big

By Will Packer
Publication Date: February 18, 2025

Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier

By Matthew Weinzierl & Brendan Rosseau
Publication Date: February 25, 2025

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance

By Riley Black
Publication Date: February 25, 2025

How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things

By Kate Williams
Publication Date: February 25, 2025

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