New York Times Bestsellers

Paperback Nonfiction
Top 15 Bestsellers List.

Rank Info Synopsis
1

The Body Keeps The Score
Bessel Van Der Kolk
9780143127741

How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
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2

Nomadland
Jessica Bruder
9780393356311

A look at an expanding low-cost labor pool, which largely consists of transient older adults, and what this might portend.
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3

Becoming
Michelle Obama
9781524763145

The former first lady describes her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, and how she balanced work, family and her husbands political ascent.
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4

White Fragility
Robin Diangelo
9780807047415

Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits cross-racial dialogue.
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5

Hidden Valley Road
Robert Kolker
9780525562641

From 1945 to 1965, a family in Colorado had 12 children, six of whom went on to develop schizophrenia.
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6

Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
9781571313560

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
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7

Thinking, Fast And Slow
Daniel Kahneman
9780374533557

When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in making business and personal decisions.
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8

The Warmth Of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
9780679763888

An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South.
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9

Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
9780062316110

How Homo sapiens became Earths dominant species.
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10

Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
9780812984965

A civil rights lawyer and MacArthur grant recipients memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.
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11

The Body
Bill Bryson
9780804172721

An owners manual of the human body covering various parts, functions and what happens when things go wrong.
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12

Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall
9780525560562

A critique of how today's mainstream feminism overlooks basic needs such as access to food, education, living wages and medical care.
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13

Born A Crime
Trevor Noah
9780399588198

A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of The Daily Show.
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14

The Choice
Edith Eva Eger
9781501130793

Dr. Eger recounts her life and survivors guilt during and after her imprisonment in Auschwitz.
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15

The Color Of Law
Richard Rothstein
9781631494536

A case for how the American government abetted racial segregation in metropolitan areas across the country.
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