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NYTimes Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction

New York Times API Dev Portal, opens in a new windowAuthoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the United States. Find more lists of chart-topping books on our New York Times Best Seller Lists page.

Most links below are to print books; check Overdrive for eBooks. Book covers provided by Syndetics depending on availability.

Find The Anxious Generation in LINKcat
#1
75 weeks on the list
by Jonathan Haidt | Penguin Press

A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children.

Find On Power in LINKcat
#2
5 weeks on the list
by Mark R. Levin | Threshold Editions

The Fox News host considers various facets of power and its effect on history.

Find The Idaho Four in LINKcat
#3
7 weeks on the list
by James Patterson and Vicky Ward | Little, Brown

Investigations into the murders of four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13, 2022.

Find Breakneck in LINKcat
#4
1 weeks on the list
by Dan Wang | Norton

An examination of rapid growth and political repression in China and how it compares to the United States.

Find Everything Is Tuberculosis in LINKcat
#5
24 weeks on the list
by John Green | Crash Course

The author of “The Anthropocene Reviewed” chronicles the fight against the deadly infectious disease tuberculosis.

Find Black Af History in LINKcat
#6
14 weeks on the list
by Michael Harriot | Dey Street

A columnist at TheGrio.com articulates moments in American history that center the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.

Find Abundance in LINKcat
#7
24 weeks on the list
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson | Avid Reader

A New York Times opinion columnist and a staff writer at The Atlantic evaluate obstacles to American progress.

Find Outlive in LINKcat
#8
115 weeks on the list
by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford | Harmony

A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.

Find When Breath Becomes Air in LINKcat
#9
74 weeks on the list
by Paul Kalanithi | Random House

A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.

Find Mark Twain in LINKcat
#10
13 weeks on the list
by Ron Chernow | Penguin Press

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer portrays the life and career of the literary celebrity and political pundit.

Find The Tears Of Things in LINKcat
#11
5 weeks on the list
by Richard Rohr | Convergent

The author of “The Universal Christ” explicates the writings of Jewish prophets and reflects upon modern life.

Find Coming Up Short in LINKcat
#12
4 weeks on the list
by Robert B. Reich | Knopf

An economist who served in three presidential administrations gives his perspective on his generation’s impact on democracy, society and the economy.

Find The Serviceberry in LINKcat
#13
30 weeks on the list
by Robin Wall Kimmerer | Scribner

The author of “Braiding Sweetgrass” illuminates how the gift economy in the natural world works and draws lessons for our economy; with illustrations by John Burgoyne.

Find A Marriage At Sea in LINKcat
#14
5 weeks on the list
by Sophie Elmhirst | Riverhead

In 1972, an incident with a breaching whale turns a couple’s dream of sailing on a boat into a monthslong struggle for survival on a raft.

Find One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This in LINKcat
#15
4 weeks on the list
by Omar El Akkad | Knopf

In his nonfiction debut, El Akkad looks at how the West responds to mass suffering.