NYT Culture
Bestseller List for January 15, 2017
HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
Grand Central/Melcher Media
9781455539741
1-4555-3974-0
The libretto of the Grammy-, Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, annotated by its creator, along with backstage photos,interviews and a production history.
BORN A CRIME
Trevor Noah
Spiegel & Grau
9780399588174
0-399-58817-5
A memoir about growing up in South Africa by the comedian, now the host of “The Daily Show,” whose parents were in an illegal (under apartheid) interracial relationship.
THE DAILY SHOW (THE BOOK)
Chris Smith
Grand Central
9781455565382
1-4555-6538-5
An oral history of the show, based on extensive interviews with Jon Stewart and others.
THE CASE OF BEASTS
Mark Salisbury
HarperDesign
9780062571373
0-06-257137-0
Filmmaking secrets, photography and artwork from “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” written by J. K. Rowling.
HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES
Brandon Stanton
St. Martin's
9781250058904
1-250-05890-2
Photographs and interviews from the creator of the blog and the book “Humans of New York.”
SAPIENS
Yuval Noah Harari
Harper
9780062316097
0-06-231609-5
How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.
HUMANS OF NEW YORK
Brandon Stanton
St. Martin's
9781250038821
1-250-03882-0
Four hundred color photos of New Yorkers, with brief commentary by the author.
AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFE
Sarah Bakewell
Other Press
9781590514887
1-59051-488-2
An account of the birth of one of the 20th century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who shaped it: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and others.
SPQR
Mary Beard
Liveright
9781631492228
1-63149-222-5
A concise history of ancient Rome.
SPEAKING AMERICAN
Josh Katz
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
9780544703391
0-544-70339-1
The creator of The New York Times dialect quiz provides a guide to how words are pronounced in different parts of the country.