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“Periods, sex, infertility, miscarriage, birth, death, postpartum physiologies-the plain and neutral facts of our bodies have always been declared taboo by those who feel small in the face of their power,” Matthews writes.

Morally clear-sighted, medically precise, and beautifully lyrical, this book is an accomplishment that belongs on the bookshelf of both the newest and the most seasoned advocates for bodily autonomy. An abortion doula, activist, parent, and writer, Matthews reports from clinics turned battlegrounds.

Matthews’s book is, instead, a love letter. Written in response to America’s reproductive emergency, a book about abortion might read as a eulogy or a battle cry. Below are Glamour’s favorite nonfiction books of 2023-those that have been published and those to come. Stroll into your local indie bookstore and shop like you are Carrie Bradshaw in Manolo Blahniks, in the year 2000. So get out your library card, if for some reason you don’t have your 16-digit number memorized. Plus, the best book you will ever read about hot dogs. And three Glamour alums make the list: an electrifying history of the role of teenage girls in American activism by Mattie Kahn a stirring tragedy of three best friends caught up in the troubled teen movement by Samantha Leach and a thrilling look at power and money in women’s sports from Macaela MacKenzie.

Then there’s a stunning study of heartbreak from Camonghne Felix. The best nonfiction books of 2023-so far-include a new essay collection from Samantha Irby, in case you haven’t wet yourself laughing recently and want to change that. No one who reads English-or the 15 other languages into which it was translated-could escape the most intimate details of the British royal family.Ī thrilling and complicated time this was! But Spare is not the last word in nonfiction. We all either read 416 glorious pages of Spare, the Duke of Sussex’s long-awaited memoir, or lived under the tyranny of endless headlines about it. Let history remember that this year in nonfiction books began with the entire world reading about Prince Harry’s penile frostbite.

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