You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Credit...The New York TimesMemoirs, histories, true crime, investigations and much more.Credit...The New York TimesSlather on some sunscreen, cocoon yourself in a hammock, and lose yourself in a chlorinated haze this summer with these memoirs, biographies and deeply-reported investigations. Among the nonfiction books we’re excited for are workplace memoirs by a grocery store worker and a chef, a new biography of Harry Belafonte and a history of an 1830s American whaling boat shipwreck.JuneMemoirImageCancel Me if You Canby Dave PortnoySince he founded Barstool Sports in 2004, the digital media mogul’s reputation has shifted from scrappy upstart to disruptive visionary and, most recently, unapologetic contrarian. Here, he tells his side of the story.chess scandalImageCheckmateby Ben MezrichThe best-selling author of “The Accidental Billionaires,” the basis for the movie “The Social Network,” unravels the scandal that rocked the chess world in 2022, when a 19-year-old American prodigy was accused of cheating after he unseated the reigning world champion.politics and FaithImageThe Crooked Places Made Straightby Raphael G. WarnockWarnock, the Baptist pastor who has represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate since 2021, shares what he calls his “moral topography” on six issues: voting rights, mass incarceration, gun violence, climate change, income inequality and dark money in politics.GuidebookImageHow to Not Die in Prisonby Taylor Sheridan and Tom NelsonSheridan, who created “Yellowstone,” has never been in prison, but the coauthor of this tough-talking guide says that’s by design. “One of us has written hit TV shows and Academy Award-nominated movies, and the other has spent much of his adult life behind bars,” Nelson told People magazine.PoliticsImageRegime Changeby Maggie Haberman and Jonathan SwanTwo New York Times reporters who have followed Donald Trump over the last decade unpack the first year of his second presidency, taking readers inside the Situation Room and the Oval Office.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT
The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer
Memoirs, histories, true crime, investigations and much more.











