The Spy and the Traitor is a wholly engrossing espionage-centered biography about Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who spied for MI6 during the Cold War. Disillusioned with Soviet communism, he helped the West by exposing Russian spies and sabotaging Soviet plots. Macintyre details the intense spy games between the US, UK, and USSR, and culminates in Gordievsky's dramatic escape from Moscow in 1985. It's a thrilling tale of espionage, betrayal, and the impact one man had on history.

Not my favorite narrative nonfiction, The Wager is centered on the story of the HMS Wager, a Royal Navy ship, and the 1741 mutiny for which it is now famous.

Monsters delves with an unflinching voice into the validity of looking at the artists' works through a squeaky clean lens. Is this a disservice in any way? Who gets to decide what's acceptable and what isn't? In a world now subjected quite quickly and quite easily to a cancel culture of hard lines and soapbox voices, are we forgetting to look at the darker aspects of human beings as the creatures they are?

Audience-ology reveals the behind-the-scenes world of Hollywood test screenings, where opinions from real people shape iconic movies. Goetz does not disappoint.

Say Nothing is a brilliant piece of storytelling. Keefe delivers plot and character on such a level, at such a pacing, and with such vibrancy that it's easy to forget his construction relies not only on the truth that these are (or were) real people, but also that he absolutely needs to have his facts straight and events mastered before he can even begin to relay the information with any clarity — much less with the depth and heart he does.

Du Mez has compiled a stellar analysis and timeline of the disturbing attitudes and stances at the center of the marriage of Evangelicalism and the Republican Party. While I knew a good bit of the key components going in,….