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NYTimes Best Sellers: Paperback 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
360 weeks on the list
by Bessel van der Kolk | Penguin

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

Find Time For A Turning Point in LINKcat
#2
1 weeks on the list
by Charlie Kirk with Brent E. Hamachek | Post Hill

The late founder of Turning Point USA gives his take on the direction of the country.

Find Framed in LINKcat
#3
3 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 A Sheepdog Named Oscar in LINKcat
#4
2 weeks on the list
by Dara Waldron | DoppelHouse

After the loss of his father, Waldron forms a bond with a border collie in rural Ireland.

Find Braiding Sweetgrass in LINKcat
#5
282 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.

Find Born A Crime in LINKcat
#6
248 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 The Glass Castle in LINKcat
#7
519 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 Chaos in LINKcat
#8
37 weeks on the list
by Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring | Back Bay

A reassessment of events surrounding the murders committed by Charles Manson’s followers.

Find The Campus Battlefield in LINKcat
#9
1 weeks on the list
by Charlie Kirk | Post Hill

The late conservative activist and radio and podcast host delineates his views on academia.

Find Signs in LINKcat
#10
21 weeks on the list
by Laura Lynne Jackson | Dial

A medium details potential ways the deceased may speak to us through everyday events.

Find Thinking, Fast And Slow in LINKcat
#11
432 weeks on the list
by Daniel Kahneman | Farrar, Straus and Giroux

When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in making business and personal decisions.

Find Antifragile in LINKcat
#12
1 weeks on the list
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Random House

The author of “Skin in the Game” makes his case that some things are strengthened by chaos.

Find On Tyranny in LINKcat
#13
139 weeks on the list
by Timothy Snyder | Crown

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

Find The Wager in LINKcat
#14
29 weeks on the list
by David Grann | Vintage

The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.

Find Greenlights in LINKcat
#15
41 weeks on the list
by Matthew McConaughey | Crown

The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over 35 years.