NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Heart-wrenchingly personal...dizzying." —Rolling Stone

From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog—now the subject of a new Hulu docuseries—and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom and healing.
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2) The tears of things

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Rohr, Richard

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"How do we live compassionately in a time of violence and despair? What can we do with our private disappointments and the anger we feel over an unjust world? In his most personal book yet, Richard Rohr turns to the writings of the Jewish prophets, showing how some of the lesser-read books of the Bible offer us a path forward today. The prophets' writings echo the spectrum of human development. Beneath their initial fervor and their forceful words,...

3) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

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Snyder, Timothy

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 41 week(s).

4) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 233 week(s).

5) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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Haidt, Jonathan

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 50 week(s).

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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....

6) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

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Grann, David

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 68 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...

7) Poverty, by America

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Desmond, Matthew

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...

8) The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball

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Miller, John W

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Baseball books don't get any better than this...Earl Weaver has at last been given his due." —George F. Will

"Vivid...Most sports books are pop flies to the infield. Miller's is a screaming triple into the left field corner." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver—who has been described as "the Copernicus of baseball"...

9) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

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Vance, J. D

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 117 week(s).

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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

10) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#14 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. It has been on the list for 84 week(s).

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction." -- Provided by publisher.

11) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-23. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 87 week(s).

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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...