Nonfiction Bestsellers
The top 15 "Combined Print and E-Book Nonfiction" titles for 07/11/2026, fetched from The New York Times Books API.
Rank (prior week)
- 1 (1). REGIME CHANGE, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (Simon & Schuster)
Two White House correspondents for The New York Times delve into the first year of President Trump's second term. - 2 (6). REVOLUTION, Eric Metaxas (Odysseus)
The author of “Martin Luther” and “Bonhoeffer” gives an account of the foundation of the United States of America. - 3 (3). STRANGERS, Belle Burden (Dial)
Burden retraces her marriage of 20 years in search of clues to help shape her understanding about its demise and to find a way forward. - 4 (2). CANCEL ME IF YOU CAN, Dave Portnoy (Gallery)
The founder of Barstool Sports describes how he grew his business from a four-page newspaper into the digital media company it is today. - 5 (4). COMMUNION, JD Vance (Harper)
The vice president and author of “Hillbilly Elegy” describes how he perceives his faith played a part in his work in public life. - 6 (5). THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE, David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
Essays on the passage of time, complicated relationships and some unexpected delights life has to offer. - 7 (10). A MARRIAGE AT SEA, Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead)
In 1972, an incident with a breaching whale turns a couple’s dream of sailing on a boat into a monthslong struggle for survival on a raft. - 8 (9). THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin)
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery. - 9 (8). LONDON FALLING, Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
The author of “Say Nothing” details the efforts by the parents of a 19-year-old Londoner to uncover the truth about his mysterious death and secret life. - 10 (-). FAMESICK, Lena Dunham (Random House)
The author of “Not That Kind of Girl” evaluates the effects that pursuing her creative endeavors had on her. - 11 (-). THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, Isabel Wilkerson (Vintage)
An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which nearly six million African-Americans abandoned the South. - 12 (-). THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press)
A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children. - 13 (-). EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS, John Green (Crash Course)
The author of “The Anthropocene Reviewed” chronicles the fight against the deadly infectious disease tuberculosis. - 14 (14). THE GREATEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN, Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
The historian and biographer examines the concepts of a statement found in the Declaration of Independence. - 15 (-). ON TYRANNY, Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.
