The Texas Library Association has created a list that highlights outstanding nonfiction published during the past three years that stimulate reading for pleasure and personal learning. This list is the Texas Topaz Reading List. Here are the items from the 2026 list that are in the TBP collection.
For more information, check out the Texas Library Association’s Website.
| 10: A MEMOIR OF FAMILY AND THE OPEN ROAD by E. A. Hanks (DB 129565) |
| 99% PERSPIRATION: A NEW WORKING HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE by Adam Chandler (DB 126380) |
| ALSOSPEAK: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS TRANSFORMING THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE by Adam Aleksic (DB 130700) |
| ART SPY: THE EXTRAORDINARY UNTOLD TALE OF WWII RESISTANCE HERO ROSE VALLAND by Michelle Young (DB 130698) |
| AWAKE: A MEMOIR by Jen Hatmaker (DB 133020 IN PROCESS) |
| BEAST IN THE CLOUDS: THE ROOSEVELT BROTHERS’ DEADLY QUEST TO FIND THE MYTHICAL GIANT PANDA by Nathalia Holt (DB 131102) |
| CABIN: OFF-THE-GRID ADVENTURES WITH A CLUELESS CRAFTSMAN by Patrick Hutchison (DB 126568) |
| CODE DEPENDENT: LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF AI by Madhumita Murgia (DB 122004) |
| DAUGHTER OF DARING: THE TRICK-RIDING, TRAIN-LEAPING, ROAD-RACING LIFE OF HELEN GIBSON, HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST STUNTWOMAN by Mallory O’Meara (DB 130759) |
| DINNER FOR VAMPIRES: LIFE ON A CULT TV SHOW (WHILE ALSO IN AN ACTUAL CULT!) by Bethany Joy Lenz (DB 125492) |
| DISNEY HIGH: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF DISNEY CHANNEL’S TWEEN EMPIRE by Ashley Spencer (DB 125836) |
| DRAWN TESTIMONY: MY FOUR DECADES AS A COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST by Jane Rosenberg (DB 126498) |
| FRAMED: ASTONISHING TRUE STORIES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (DB 124686, LB 0001022) |
| GIRL ON GIRL: HOW POP CULTURE TURNED A GENERATION OF WOMEN AGAINST THEMSELVES by Sophie Gilbert (DB 130145) |
| GRIEF IS FOR PEOPLE by Sloane Crosley (DB 119523, LB 0000797) |
| HEY, HUN: SALES, SISTERHOOD, SUPREMACY, AND THE OTHER LIES BEHIND MULTILEVEL MARKETING by Emily Lynn Paulson (IN PROCESS) |
| MAILMAN: MY WILD RIDE DELIVERING THE MAIL IN APPALACHIA AND FINALLY FINDING HOME by Stephen Starring Grant (DB 132435) |
| MARRIAGE AT SEA: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, OBSESSION, AND SHIPWRECK by Sophie Elmhirst (DB 131217) |
| MCMILLION$: THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY OF HOW AN UNLIKELY PAIR OF FBI AGENTS BROUGHT DOWN THE MOST SUPERSIZED FRAUD IN FAST FOOD HISTORY by James Lee Hernandez (DB 123334) |
| NO MORE TEARS: THE DARK STORY OF JOHNSON & JOHNSON by Gardiner Harris (DB 128599) |
| RAISING HARE by Chloe Dalton (DB 128243) |
| RAW DOG: THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT HOT DOGS by Jamie Loftus (DB 115180) |
| SCIENTIST AND THE SERIAL KILLER: THE SEARCH FOR HOUSTON’S LOST BOYS by Lisa Olsen (DBC 30800) |
| SNAFU: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO HISTORY’S GEATEST SCREWUPS by Ed Helms (DB 129813) |
| SOCIOPATH: A MEMOIR by Patric Gagne (DB 120977, LB 0001397) |
| VANISHING TREASURES: A BESTIARY OF EXTRAORDINARY ENDANGERED CREATURES by Katherine Rundell (DB 125931) |
| WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY: A STORY OF LOVE, DEATH, AND CHILD REMOVAL IN AMERICA by Roxanna Asgarian (DB 114060) |
| WELL-TRAINED WIFE: MY ESCAPE FROM CHRISTIAN PATRIARCHY by Tia Levings (DB 125222) |
| WHACK JOB by Rachel McCarthy James (DB 129313) |