The Texas Library Association has created a list that highlights outstanding nonfiction published during the past three years that stimulates reading for pleasure and personal learning. This list is the Texas Topaz Reading List. Here are the items from the 2025 list that are in the TBP collection.
For more information check out the Texas Library Association’s Website.
| AGE OF MAGICAL OVERTHINKING: NOTES ON MODERN IRRATIONALITY by Amanda Montell (DB 123290) |
| AMERICAN GIRLS: ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY INTO THE ISLAMIC STATE AND HER SISTER’S FIGHT TO BRING HER HOME by Jessica Roy (DB 119214) |
| BIRDGIRL: A YOUNG ENVIRONMENTALIST LOOKS TO THE SKIES IN SEARCH OF A BETTER FUTURE by Mya-Rose Craig (DB 118312) |
| CHAMBER DIVERS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE D-DAY SCIENTISTS WHO CHANGED SPECIAL OPERATIONS FOREVER by Rachel Lance (DB 120888) |
| EYELINER: A CULTURAL HISTORY by Zahra Hankir (DB 119371) |
| FOUR THOUSAND PAWS: CARING FOR THE DOGS OF THE IDITAROD: A VETERINARIAN’S STORY by Lee Morgan (DB 122275) |
| HIDDEN POTENTIAL: THE SCIENCE OF ACHIEVING GREATER THINGS by Adam Grant (DB 117392, LB 0000582) |
| HIS MAJESTY’S AIRSHIP: THE LIFE AND TRAGIC DEATH OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST FLYING MACHINE by S. C. Gwynne (DB 123529) |
| HOW TO BE PERFECT: THE CORRECT ANSWER TO EVERY MORAL QUESTION by Michael Schur (DB 106773) |
| HOW TO SURVIVE HISTORY: HOW TO OUTRUN A TYRANNOSAURUS, ESCAPE POMPEII, GET OFF THE TITANIC, AND SURVIVE THE REST OF HISTORY’S DEADLIEST CATASTROPHES by Cody Cassidy (DB 118800) |
| MAKING IT SO by Patrick Stewart (DB 116785) |
| MAN OF TWO FACES: A MEMOIR, A HISTORY, A MEMORIAL by Viet Thanh Nguyen (DB 122406, BR 25523 IN PROCESS) |
| ONE IN A MILLENNIAL: ON FRIENDSHIP, FEELINGS, FANGIRLS, AND FITTING IN by Kate Kennedy (DB 118984) |
| ROGUES: TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLERS, REBELS AND CROOKS by Patrick Radden Keefe (DB 108725, LB 14056) |
| SAYS WHO?: A KINDER, FUNNER USAGE GUIDE FOR EVERYONE WHO CARES ABOUT WORDS by Anne Curzan (DB 120286) |
| SWANS OF HARLEM: FIVE BLACK BALLERINAS, FIFTY YEARS OF SISTERHOOD, AND THEIR RECLAMATION OF A GROUNDBREAKING HISTORY by Karen Valby (DB 120913, LB 0000347) |
| TWELVE TREES: THE DEEP ROOTS OF OUR FUTURE by Daniel Lewis (DB 120510) |
| UNCLAIMED: ABANDONMENT AND HOPE IN THE CITY OF ANGELS by Pamela Prickett (DB 120500) |
| WAGER: A TALE OF SHIPWRECK, MUTINY, AND MURDER by David Grann (DB 113965, BR 25435 IN PROCESS, LB 14399) |
| WALK IN THE PARK: THE TRUE STORY OF A SPECTACULAR MISADVENTURE IN THE GRAND CANYON by Kevin Fedarko (DB 122177) |
| WALKING WITH SAM: A FATHER, A SON, AND FIVE HUNDRED MILES ACROSS SPAIN by Andrew McCarthy (DB 114419) |
| YOU NEVER KNOW: A MEMOIR by Tom Selleck (DB 125747, LB 0000518) |