You Can Handle the Truth: Exciting Upcoming 2022 Nonfiction Books

Alexander, a New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist, has written this mediation on America’s unresolved racial issues for her sons’ generation. It’s a discussion of how to live with hope in the face of the often frightening and heartbreaking realities of what it means to be Black in America today.

Dartmouth history professor and civil rights expert Delmont has written a definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective. African American’s contributions to the war are often overlooked and underreported. He also discusses the terrible treatment of African American soldiers on their return home to the States.

When it rains, it pours: this is Ephron’s humorous, heart-squeezing story of finding hope and love in the face of many challenges. Several years ago, Ephron lost her sister and her husband to cancer within a few months of each other. She thought things were turning around when she was reunited with a man she dated 54 years earlier. But then she was diagnosed with the same cancer that took her sister. Ephron has written a tearjerker about falling in love while fighting cancer, and staying hopeful through it all.

The beloved Italian novelist of such bestsellers as The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan novels returns with her first work of nonfiction. It’s a slim book, four essays, about her formation and life as a reader, her influences, and her thoughts on writing.

And how exciting, another Patrick Radden Keefe already! The bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain will return this summer with a collection of 12 stories about criminals of all kinds from both sides of the law.

Another returning favorite is bestselling Candice Millard. Known for her thoroughly researched history books set in the 19th century, this is another excellent examination set in that time period. This is the adventurous story of the search for the source of the Nile River.

Lifelong environmentalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Proulx takes a deep dive into the worlds wetlands. She explores different ecosystems, their importance, and what their ongoing destruction means for the planet.

Like Twitty’s award-winning book The Cooking Gene, this is an exploration of history through his heritage. In Koshersoul, he examines the crossroads between Jewish and African diaspora cuisine, how food can make the people, and his own paths involving food and Judaism.

And this year we also get a new book from the Pulitzar Prize–winning author of I Contain Multitudes! This is an in-depth look at not just what humans see when gazing upon nature, but the views of other creatures in nature as they look upon the world around them.

And last, but not least, an in-depth examination of the Tulsa Race Massacre and the century since it took place. How could an event like this be left out of most history books for almost 100 years? Young does a deep dive into the massacre, including interviews from survivors and his own search for the truth in Oklahoma.