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NYTimes Best Sellers: Combined Print and E-Book 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 Body Keeps The Score in LINKcat
#1
258 weeks on the list
by Bessel van der Kolk | Penguin

How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.

Find The Anxious Generation in LINKcat
#2
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 Breakneck in LINKcat
#3
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 The Idaho Four in LINKcat
#4
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 On Power in LINKcat
#5
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 Framed in LINKcat
#6
16 weeks on the list
by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey | Vintage

Our criminal justice system viewed through the struggles of 10 wrongfully convicted people to achieve exoneration.

Find Everything Is Tuberculosis in LINKcat
#7
22 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
#8
9 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 The Room Where It Happened in LINKcat
#9
7 weeks on the list
by John Bolton | Simon & Schuster

The former national security advisor gives his account of the 17 months he spent working for President Trump during his first administration.

Find Abundance in LINKcat
#10
23 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 On Tyranny in LINKcat
#11
64 weeks on the list
by Timothy Snyder | Crown

Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.

Find Born A Crime in LINKcat
#12
99 weeks on the list
by Trevor Noah | One World

A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the former host of “The Daily Show.”

Find Outlive in LINKcat
#13
100 weeks on the list
by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford | Harmony

A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.

Find The Glass Castle in LINKcat
#14
65 weeks on the list
by Jeannette Walls | Scribner

The author recalls how she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.

Find Braiding Sweetgrass in LINKcat
#15
102 weeks on the list
by Robin Wall Kimmerer | Milkweed Editions

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.