The New York Times: Nonfiction Bestsellers
The top 15 "Combined Print and E-Book Nonfiction" titles for 01/17/2026, fetched from The New York Times Books API.
- 1 (-). 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. - 2 (1). 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking)
The New York Times journalist and CNBC host looks at the fight between Washington and Wall Street that fueled a historic crash of the stock market. - 3 (2). THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin)
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery. - 4 (3). NOBODY'S GIRL, Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
The late activist and advocate for sex-trafficking survivors describes her time with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. - 5 (-). THE OTHER SIDE OF CHANGE, Maya Shankar (Riverhead)
The cognitive scientist and host of the podcast "A Slight Change of Plans" posits ways to redefine upheavals. - 6 (8). HOW TO TEST NEGATIVE FOR STUPID, John Kennedy (Broadside)
The Republican senator from Louisiana shares stories about politics in Washington, D.C., and in his home state. - 7 (9). 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. - 8 (11). I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED, Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother. - 9 (14). ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
In his nonfiction debut, El Akkad looks at how the West responds to mass suffering. - 10 (-). THE GALES OF NOVEMBER, John U. Bacon (Liveright)
An account of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, 50 years ago. - 11 (6). OUTLIVE, Peter Attia with Bill Gifford (Harmony)
A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity. - 12 (4). ON TYRANNY, Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny. - 13 (7). EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS, John Green (Crash Course)
The author of “The Anthropocene Reviewed” chronicles the fight against the deadly infectious disease tuberculosis. - 14 (-). 107 DAYS, Kamala Harris (Simon & Schuster)
The former vice president recounts her abbreviated campaign to become president in 2024. - 15 (5). FIRESTORM, Jacob Soboroff (Mariner)
The MS NOW reporter describes events during the 2025 fires in Los Angeles and what they might portend about future catastrophes.
