NYT Paperback Nonfiction
Bestseller List for August 4, 2024
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.
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.
THE ART THIEF
Michael Finkel
Vintage
9780593689219
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.
EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
Dolly Alderton
Harper Perennial
9780062968791
0-06-296879-3
The British journalist shares stories and observations; the basis of the TV series.
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.
FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND THE BIG TERRIBLE THING
Matthew Perry
Flatiron
9781250866455
1-250-86645-6
The late actor, known for playing Chandler Bing on “Friends,” shares stories from his childhood and his struggles with sobriety.
THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR ON PALESTINE
Rashid Khalidi
Metropolitan
9781250787651
1-250-78765-3
An account of the history of settler colonialism and resistance, based on untapped archival materials and reports.
BORN A CRIME
Trevor Noah
One World
9780399588198
0-399-58819-1
A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the former host of “The Daily Show.”
EDUCATED
Tara Westover
Random House
9780399590528
0-399-59052-8
The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.
CRYING IN H MART
Michelle Zauner
Vintage
9781984898951
1-984898-95-7
The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
David Grann
Vintage
9780307742483
0-307-74248-2
The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling F.B.I. intervened, ineffectively.
THE GLASS CASTLE
Jeannette Walls
Scribner
9780743247542
0-7432-4754-X
The author recalls how she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS
Isabel Wilkerson
Vintage
9780679763888
0-679-76388-0
An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South.
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.
THINK AGAIN
Adam Grant
Penguin
9781984878120
1-984878-12-3
An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.