From a life lived in the orbit of a loved (and loathed) burger joint to the submarine adventures of a preeminent cave diver, this month's collection has a little bit of everything. 

Histories come in all shapes and sizes, especially this month.

Pirates, bootleggers, bloodsuckers and more in the best nonfiction of the month.

The first half of the year featured some fine books on leadership. Here are a few examples.

John Zada adventured into British Columbia's remote Great Bear Rainforest in search of... Sasquatch. What did he find? We talk to him about the investigation, Bigfoot culture, and his account, In The Valleys of the Noble Beyond. 

A look back at ten years of the Amazon editors' #1 Books of the Year. 

"This is a very, very old impulse. To go into the dark, to seek meaning, to tell stories, to leave marks. To keep what's precious safe, and to dispose of what's dangerous."

Here are some of the books we are talking about this week.

Fast food. Tawdry details. Sasquatch. All that and more in the best nonfiction of the month.

"I realized that I could turn how my father lived in me from a monolithic monster into an apologist--from this terrifying entity into this broken, sad, tragic little boy. In doing so he lost power over me..." The celebrated author (The Vagina Monologues) and activist on a pathway to healing for survivors of abuse, and for the abusers themselves.

Five reads sure to spark conversation.

Epic fashion, epic fishing, epic road-tripping, and more!

Before any human slipped the surly leash of gravity, there were the Soviet Space Dogs. Meet these unsung—and unwilling—pioneers in the quest to land on the Moon.

Just 20 slots for the year's best nonfiction? Impossible! We tried, anyway.

George Takei shares moments from his childhood years in an internment camp for Japanese Americans and asks what we've learned since.