Paperback Nonfiction
🥇 01
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
🖋️ Bessel van der Kolk
🏢 Penguin
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
🥈 02
RAISING HARE
🖋️ Chloe Dalton
🏢 Vintage
A political adviser and foreign policy specialist tells the story of taking care of a wild hare during the pandemic lockdown.
🥉 03
THE DEMON OF UNREST
🖋️ Erik Larson
🏢 Crown
The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War.
04
I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED
🖋️ Jennette McCurdy
🏢 Simon & Schuster
The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.
05
ONCE UPON A TIME
🖋️ Elizabeth Beller
🏢 Gallery
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s rise to fame and untimely death in a plane crash with her sister, Lauren, and husband, John F. Kennedy Jr.
06
BORN SURVIVORS
🖋️ Wendy Holden
🏢 Harper Perennial
Three women each suffer the loss of a husband while secretly carrying an unborn child in the concentration camps during World War II.
07
HOW TO HIDE AN EMPIRE
🖋️ Daniel Immerwahr
🏢 Picador
The history of the territories outside the United States that are governed and inhabited by the United States.
08
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW
🖋️ Daniel Kahneman
🏢 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in making business and personal decisions.
09
SIGNS
🖋️ Laura Lynne Jackson
🏢 Dial
A medium details potential ways the deceased may speak to us through everyday events.
10
THE BEGINNING COMES AFTER THE END
🖋️ Rebecca Solnit
🏢 Haymarket
Solnit describes changes in several facets of society that have occurred over the last seven decades.
11
THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST
🖋️ Jack El-Hai
🏢 PublicAffairs
In 1945, an Army psychiatrist evaluates Hermann Göring and a group of Nazis; the basis of the film “Nuremberg.”
12
WHAT REMAINS
🖋️ Carole Radziwill
🏢 Scribner
A memoir by a former journalist and producer for ABC News who married a prince, Anthony Radziwill, who was John F. Kennedy Jr.’s cousin.
13
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
🖋️ Robin Wall Kimmerer
🏢 Milkweed Editions
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
14
THE GREATEST TEMPLAR TALE NEVER TOLD
🖋️ Scott F. Wolter
🏢 North Star
The Sinclair/ Wemyss journals that describe a mission to take Templar treasures to North America.
15
BREATH
🖋️ James Nestor
🏢 Riverhead
A re-examination of a basic biological function and a look at the science behind ancient breathing practices.