2025 Top 10 Non-Fiction Books on CD

The top 10 items checked out from our non-fiction physical audiobook collection

Updated December 18, 2025
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1

The Demon of Unrest : A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Larson, Erik/ Patton, Will (NRT)/ Larson, Erik (NRT)
CD
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los Angeles Times). ...

2

Ultimate Spanish : [beginner-intermediate]
Paper Book
This deluxe course has everything you need to learn Spanish from scratch or to revive the Spanish that you learned years ago.Ultimate Spanishcombines conversation and culture in an easy-to-follow, enjoyable, and effective format. It’s the perfect way to learn Spanish for school, for travel,...

3

The gentle art of Swedish death cleaning : how to free yourself and your family from a lifetime of clutter
Magnusson, Margareta, (Artist)
CD

4

The Colony
Tayman, John.
Paper Book
In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colonyreveals the untold history of the infamous American leprosy colony on Molokai and of the extraordinary people who struggled to survive under the most horrific circumstances. In 1866, twelve men and women and one small child were...

5

The year of magical thinking
Didion, Joan
Paper Book
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then...

6

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Vance, J. D.
Paper Book
Hillbilly Elegy recounts Vice President J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as the Vice President of the United States, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the...

7

Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
De Vis©♭, Daniel
Paper Book
Andy Griffith and Don Knotts met on Broadway in the 1950s. When Andy went to Hollywood to film a TV pilot about a small-town sheriff, Don called to ask if the sheriff could use a deputy. The comedic synergy between Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife ignited The Andy Griffith Show, elevating...

8

Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl
Paper Book
NATIONAL BEST SELLER * Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. * A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the...

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