New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers

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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden
The empowering, must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, perfect for readers of Glennon Doyle and Miranda July. THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON THE OPRAH WINFREY PODCAST SET TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX...
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin
In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded-one of visionaries and fraudsters,...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
Paper Book
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. Neither talking nor drug therapies have...
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe
'From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.'A new book by Keefe means...
Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham
Paper Book
Famesick is a frank, deeply personal reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, from the mind behind the hit series Girls and Too Much, and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl.

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