Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
🥇 01
STRANGERS
🖋️ Belle Burden
🏢 Dial
Burden retraces her marriage of 20 years in search of clues to help shape her understanding about its demise and to find a way forward.
🥈 02
THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
🖋️ David Sedaris
🏢 Little, Brown
Essays on the passage of time, complicated relationships and some unexpected delights life has to offer.
🥉 03
VIEW FROM THE EAST WING
🖋️ Jill Biden
🏢 Gallery
The former first lady recounts her time in the White House, causes she championed and her simultaneous work as a community college professor.
04
LONDON FALLING
🖋️ Patrick Radden Keefe
🏢 Doubleday
The author of “Say Nothing” details the efforts by the parents of a 19-year-old Londoner to uncover the truth about his mysterious death and secret life.
05
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
🖋️ Bessel van der Kolk
🏢 Penguin
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
06
COURAGE CAN SAVE US
🖋️ Rye Barcott
🏢 Bloomsbury
Profiles of Democratic and Republican politicians who previously served in the military or the F.B.I.
07
THE MAILMAN
🖋️ Stephen Starring Grant
🏢 Simon & Schuster
After losing his corporate job and being diagnosed with cancer, Grant becomes a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
08
ALL AMERICAN PATRIOTISM
🖋️ Rachel Campos-Duffy
🏢 Fox News
The co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend” brings together songs, stories and photographs to celebrate America.
09
A SCREAMING LIFE
🖋️ Kim Thayil with Adem Tepedelen
🏢 Morrow
The story of the band Soundgarden told by its lead guitarist and co-founder.
10
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER
🖋️ Neil deGrasse Tyson
🏢 Simon Six
The astrophysicist depicts what potential encounters with aliens from outer space might be like.
11
FAMESICK
🖋️ Lena Dunham
🏢 Random House
The author of “Not That Kind of Girl” evaluates the effects that pursuing her creative endeavors had on her.
12
THE ANXIOUS GENERATION
🖋️ 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.
13
ALL WE SAY
🖋️ Ben Rhodes
🏢 Random House
The former speechwriter for President Obama explicates what it means to be American through this collection of 15 speeches.
14
TRANSCENDENT
🖋️ Laverne Cox
🏢 Gallery
The Emmy-nominated actress shares her story of being a transgender woman in Hollywood and fighting for transgender rights.
15
THE CASE FOR AMERICA
🖋️ Bret Baier
🏢 Mariner
The chief political anchor for Fox News shares his perspectives on our national character during divisive times.