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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
349 weeks on the list
by Bessel van der Kolk | Penguin

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

Find On Tyranny in LINKcat
#2
128 weeks on the list
by Timothy Snyder | Crown

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

Find Cultish in LINKcat
#3
4 weeks on the list
by Amanda Montell | Harper Perennial

The author of “The Age of Magical Overthinking” evaluates language techniques used by various groups to develop followers.

Find The Wager in LINKcat
#4
18 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 Born A Crime in LINKcat
#5
237 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 Educated in LINKcat
#6
98 weeks on the list
by Tara Westover | Random House

The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

Find The Wide Wide Sea in LINKcat
#7
5 weeks on the list
by Hampton Sides | Vintage

The author of “On Desperate Ground” depicts Captain James Cook’s final voyage and the controversies surrounding its legacy.

Find The Glass Castle in LINKcat
#8
508 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 The Black Swan in LINKcat
#9
20 weeks on the list
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Random House

An evaluation of impactful and unpredictable events and the rationalizations that may accompany them.

Find Outliers in LINKcat
#10
376 weeks on the list
by Malcolm Gladwell | Back Bay

Unexpected factors that explain why some people succeed, such as upbringing, timing and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.

Find The Backyard Bird Chronicles in LINKcat
#11
56 weeks on the list
by Amy Tan | Knopf

Essays and drawings by the author of “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Bonesetter's Daughter,” which depict a search for peace through birding.

Find Greenlights in LINKcat
#12
33 weeks on the list
by Matthew McConaughey | Crown

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

Find Braiding Sweetgrass in LINKcat
#13
271 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 Empire Of The Summer Moon in LINKcat
#14
78 weeks on the list
by S.C. Gwynne | Scribner

The story of Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches.

Find All About Love in LINKcat
#15
157 weeks on the list
by bell hooks | Morrow

The late feminist icon explores the causes of a polarized society and the meaning of love.