New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers

The preeminent list of best selling nonfiction in the United States.
Updated December 18, 2024
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Vance, J. D.
Paper Book
Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that...
The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Haidt, Jonathan
Paper Book
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Jonathan Haidt is a modern-day prophet, disguised as a psychologist . . . He points the way forward to a brighter, stronger future for us all' Susan Cain 'Compelling, readable - and incredibly chilling . . . remarkably...
The body keeps the score : mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma
Van der Kolk, Bessel A.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller "Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society." --Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
Kamala Harris
Ebook
Read the inspiring Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the first woman, and woman of colour, to serve as Vice President of the United States. 'A life story that genuinely entrances' Los Angeles Times The daughter of immigrants and civil...
The art thief : a true story of love, crime and a dangerous obsession
Finkel, Michael
Paper Book
*The New York Times bestseller*  *Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction* 'A breath-taking read, as compelling as a Highsmith novel. I loved it' - Maggie O'Farrell 'Brilliant' - Sunday Times ...
Chaos : the truth behind the Manson murders
O'Neill, Tom.
Paper Book
As featured on The Joe Rogan Experience ______________________________ A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous...
Sapiens : a brief history of humankind
Harari, Yuval N.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Bestseller * New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century * The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari...
Thinking, fast and slow
Kahneman, Daniel
Paper Book
Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent? The answer lies in the two ways we make choices- fast, intuitive thinking, and slow, rational thinking....
All the beauty in the world : a museum guard's adventures in life, loss and art
Bringley, Patrick
Paper Book
A moving, revelatory portrait of one of the world's great museums and its treasures by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have...
Framed: ; Ten True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Grisham, John.
Paper Book
A fundamental principle of the American legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt.Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades...
Nexus: ; a brief history of information networks from the stone age to ai
Harari, yuval Noah.
Paper Book
The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas - and our mythologies. The internet...
Ghosts of Honolulu : a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor
Harmon, Mark
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American...
Nona the ninth
Muir, Tamsyn
Paper Book
Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth? A Finalist for the Hugo and Locus Awards! An Indie Next Pick! The Locked Tomb is a 2023 Hugo...
Revenge of the tipping point: ; overstories, superspreaders and the rise of social engineering
Gladwell, Malcolm.
Paper Book
Brothers: a deep and personal family memoir from the co-foun
Van Halen, Alex
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this intimate and open account - nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read - Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band-mate. ...
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Harry, Prince, Duke of Sussex
Paper Book
Sunday Times Memoir of the Year 2023 It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what...
PATRIOT
Navalny, Alexei.
Paper Book
'Mind-blowing ... one extraordinary read' EMILY MAITLIS 'The greatest political figure of his generation' OBSERVER 'Part memoir, part diary, a political manifesto, a darkly funny adieu' BEN MACINTYRE 'Patriot will be seen as a historic text'...
From here to the great unknown : a memoir
Presley, Lisa Marie
Paper Book
The #1 Global Bestselling Memoir Amazon Editors' Best Books of the Year 2024 Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her...
War
Woodward, Bob.
Paper Book
Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST POLITICS BOOKS of 2024 Two-time Pulitzer prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars - Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American presidency.

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