NYT Paperback Nonfiction
Bestseller List for November 17, 2024
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
Bessel van der Kolk
Penguin
9780143127741
0-14-312774-8
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
HILLBILLY ELEGY
J.D. Vance
Harper
9780062300553
0-06-230055-5
The Yale Law School graduate and 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood.
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Milkweed Editions
9781571313560
1-57131-356-7
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
ON TYRANNY
Timothy Snyder
Crown
9780804190114
0-8041-9011-9
Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.
CASTE
Isabel Wilkerson
Random House
9780593230275
0-593-23027-2
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
CHAOS
Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring
Back Bay
9780316477543
0-316-47754-0
A reassessment of events surrounding the murders committed by Charles Manson’s followers.
SPARE
Prince Harry
Random House
9780593593820
0-593-59382-0
The Duke of Sussex details his struggles with the royal family, loss of his mother, service in the British Army and marriage to Meghan Markle.
THE TRUTHS WE HOLD
Kamala Harris
Penguin
9780525560739
0-525-56073-4
A memoir by the daughter of immigrants who is currently serving as the 49th vice president and is the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nominee.
WHY NATIONS FAIL
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Crown Currency
9780307719225
0-307-71922-7
How political and economic institutions lead to economic success or failure; by two winners of the 2024 Nobel in economic science.
SAPIENS
Yuval Noah Harari
Harper Perennial
9780062316110
0-06-231611-7
How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.
GHOSTS OF HONOLULU
Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr
Harper Select
9781400337040
1-4003-3704-6
The story of a Japanese American naval intelligence agent, a Japanese spy and events in Hawaii before the start of World War II.
THE ART THIEF
Michael Finkel
Vintage
9781984898456
1-984898-45-0
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.
THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES
Amy Tan
Knopf
9780593536131
0-593-53613-4
Essays and drawings by the author of “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Bonesetter's Daughter,” which depict a search for peace through birding.
ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD
Patrick Bringley
Simon & Schuster
9781982163310
1-982163-31-3
Bringley describes the decade he spent working as a guard in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
bell hooks
Morrow
9780060959470
0-06-095947-9
The late feminist icon explores the causes of a polarized society and the meaning of love.