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
I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED
🖋️ Jennette McCurdy
🏢 Simon & Schuster
The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.
🥉 03
ON TYRANNY
🖋️ Timothy Snyder
🏢 Crown
Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.
04
BREATH
🖋️ James Nestor
🏢 Riverhead
A re-examination of a basic biological function and a look at the science behind ancient breathing practices.
05
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW
🖋️ Daniel Kahneman
🏢 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in making business and personal decisions.
06
HUNT, GATHER, PARENT
🖋️ Michaeleen Doucleff
🏢 Avid Reader
A look at different approaches to rearing children from various parts of the planet.
07
SIGNS
🖋️ Laura Lynne Jackson
🏢 Dial
A medium details potential ways the deceased may speak to us through everyday events.
08
ALL ABOUT LOVE
🖋️ bell hooks
🏢 Morrow
The late feminist icon explores the causes of a polarized society and the meaning of love.
09
THE WOMAN IN ME
🖋️ Britney Spears
🏢 Gallery
The Grammy Award-winning pop star details her personal and professional experiences, including the years she spent under a conservatorship overseen by her father.
10
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.
11
THE ART THIEF
🖋️ Michael Finkel
🏢 Vintage
The author of “The Stranger in the Woods” tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole art more than 200 times for the sake of admiring it.
12
THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES
🖋️ 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.
13
GREENLIGHTS
🖋️ Matthew McConaughey
🏢 Crown
The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over 35 years.
14
WANT
🖋️ Gillian Anderson
🏢 Abrams
A collection of sexual fantasies and confessions submitted anonymously by women from around the world.
15
REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT
🖋️ Malcolm Gladwell
🏢 Back Bay
Through a series of stories, Gladwell explicates the causes of various kinds of epidemics.