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

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

Find Born A Crime in LINKcat
#2
245 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 On Tyranny in LINKcat
#3
136 weeks on the list
by Timothy Snyder | Crown

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

Find The Glass Castle in LINKcat
#4
516 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 A City On Mars in LINKcat
#5
4 weeks on the list
by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith | Penguin

The authors of “Soonish” examine the pros and cons of space settlement.

Find Educated in LINKcat
#6
106 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 Signs in LINKcat
#7
18 weeks on the list
by Laura Lynne Jackson | Dial

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

Find Just Mercy in LINKcat
#8
324 weeks on the list
by Bryan Stevenson | One World

A civil rights lawyer and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.

Find Outliers in LINKcat
#9
382 weeks on the list
by Malcolm Gladwell | Back Bay/Little, Brown
Find Thinking, Fast And Slow in LINKcat
#10
429 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 Braiding Sweetgrass in LINKcat
#11
279 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 The Wager in LINKcat
#12
26 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 Your Favorite Scary Movie in LINKcat
#13
1 weeks on the list
by Ashley Cullins | Plume

Interviews with the cast and creators on the making of the “Scream” films and their impact on the horror movie genre.

Find All About Love in LINKcat
#14
161 weeks on the list
by bell hooks | Morrow

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

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

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