NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) The Tell: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir

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Griffin, Amy

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

2) 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 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 42 week(s).

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In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...

3) 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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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 51 week(s).

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This is an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health--and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen...

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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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 234 week(s).

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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.

5) The house of my mother: a daughter's quest for freedom

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Franke, Shari

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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Shari Franke's childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface--Ruby's wholesome online persona masked a tyrannical parenting style. As the family's YouTube notoriety...

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

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Grann, David

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#7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 69 week(s).

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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 Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all...

7) From here to the great unknown: a memoir

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Presley, Lisa Marie

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#11 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved. Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story. Front jacket flap.

8) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 88 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,...

9) Murder the truth: fear, the First Amendment, and a secret campaign to protect the powerful

Author

Enrich, David

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"It seemed like a throwaway line in a forgettable opinion: In 2019, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas raised the prospect of challenging the legendary Warren Court decision New York Times v. Sullivan. Though hardly a household name, Sullivan is one of the most consequential free speech decisions, ever. Fundamental to the creation of the modern media as we know it, it has enabled journalists and writers all over the country -- from top national...

10) The backyard bird chronicles

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Tan, Amy

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-03-30. It has been on the list for 16 week(s).

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In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater--an opportunity to savor quiet moments during a...