10 New Nonfiction Book Releases of February 2024

In her new essay collection, Tania De Rozario examines ideas around her experience growing up as a self-identified fat, queer, brown girl in Malaysia. She begins to realize that, outside the world of fairytales, monsters don’t necessarily have to look monstrous.

Kentucky author Shayla Lawson takes us on their travels, exploring the world as a disabled Black nonbinary femme. In their travels, they examine ideas around Blackness, colonialism, and relationships.

Lucy found her heart place when she moved to New York City in the 1970s. But she didn’t feel really at home until her recent transition into her new identity as a trans woman. Her memoir ties together these two threads of her life, creating a cohesive memoir.

Brontez Purnell tells the story of his life in verse, chronicling his misadventures in sex, love, and loneliness. He struggles with his past, his family, his place in the world, all told with a poet’s ear for prose.

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie Sun has a great job and a seemingly incredible fiance. But when she leaves her job and drops out of her MBA program, she decides to take a new job at a hedge fund and finds herself sucked into a new world.

When Camarillo Gutierrez is left alone to care for her younger brother in the United States after her parents are sent back to Mexico, she becomes one of the thousands of homeless youth left on their own after their parents were deported.

Lyz Lenz, known for her incredibly popular substack, Men Yell at Me, has a new memoir out about her divorce. Along with her own story, she uses a feminist lens to examine how ex-wives have historically been perceived in America.

Literary darling Leslie Jamison’s new memoir Splinters picks apart the many things women are expected to be at once — daughter, mother, wife, artist, academic. For the first time, Jamison turns her investigative eye on herself, examining her own life as its sole subject.

Chantha Nguon shares the story of losing her entire family in Cambodia, moving to the United States, and starting again. Through food, she’s able to revisit her mother’s kitchen, the familiar aromas washing over her and taking her home.

Emmeline Clein examines her own history of disordered eating through the stories of other women, historical figures, celebrities, and people from her life. She moves back and forth between her struggles with the ups and downs of her recovery and the lives of other women up against toxic diet culture and impossible beauty standards.