NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction

1) The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War

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Larson, Erik

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...

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

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 6 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....

3) An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s

Author

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.

4) Love, Mom: inspiring stories celebrating motherhood

Author

Saphier, Nicole

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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Unmatched and unwavering, mothers are the embodiment of selfless, pure, and unconditional love. But so often, the sacrifices and triumphs of motherhood go unrecognized. Now, in Love, Mom, Fox News medical contributor and mom of three, Dr. Nicole Saphier, shines a light on the power of a mother's love, with inspiring first-person stories from moms in the Fox News family.

5) The age of grievance

Author

Bruni, Frank

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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left"--

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

Author

Grann, David

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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 54 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) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 58 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,...

8) The wide wide sea: imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook

Author

Sides, Hampton

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach...

9) Knife: meditations after an attempted murder

Author

Rushdie, Salman

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is...

10) I'm glad my mom died

Author

McCurdy, Jennette

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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 82 week(s).

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"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?"...

11) Somehow: thoughts on love

Author

Lamott, Anne

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...

12) Age of revolutions: progress and backlash from 1600 to the present

Author

Zakaria, Fareed

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions--past and present--that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.

13) Nuclear war: a scenario

Author

Jacobsen, Annie

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie...