Puzzles? Sports? Birdsong? The variety of new nonfiction means there's something for everyone

Puzzles? Sports? Birdsong? The variety of new nonfiction means there's something for everyone

Birding. Photography. The great outdoors. Big Macs.

Chances are good there's a nonfiction book out there to suit just about anybody on your holiday gift list .

Some ideas:

Imagine, if you will, a world without mobile phones, the internet or The New York Times . Would your favorite puzzler survive? The good folks at the Times have something perfect to put in the bunker: “Puzzle Mania!” It’s a stylish hardcover book full of Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Minis and more. By a lead Times puzzle editor, Joel Fagliano. Authors Equity. $38.

Painting, collage, photography, sculpture, performance. Derrick Adams has embraced them all in a career spanning more than 25 years. His first monograp