NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

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

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 41 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....

2) 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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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 224 week(s).

3) Cher: Part One: The Memoir

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Cher

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller***

***The Global #1 Bestseller***

The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.

After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.

Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only

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4) Be ready when the luck happens: a memoir

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Garten, Ina

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 14 week(s).

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"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--

5) The serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"... A bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world." -- Provided by publisher.

6) The backyard bird chronicles

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Tan, Amy

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 13 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...

7) Framed: astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions

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Grisham, John

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#7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 12 week(s).

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"In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is...

8) Revenge of the tipping point: overstories, superspreaders, and the rise of social engineering

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Gladwell, Malcolm

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 14 week(s).

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Revisits the world of social epidemics first explored in Gladwell's 2000 book "The tipping point," this time taking a closer look at the dark side of social engineering.

9) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 78 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.

10) Melania

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Trump, Melania

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#11 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"In her memoir, Melania reflects on her Slovenian childhood, the pivotal moments that led her to the world of high fashion in Europe and New York, and the serendipitous meeting with Donald Trump, a chance encounter that forever changed the course of her life. Melania opens up about their courtship, life in the spotlight, and experiencing the joy of motherhood. She shares behind-the-scenes stories from her time in the White House, shedding light on...

11) From Here to the Great Unknown

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Presley, Lisa Marie

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 12 week(s).

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.

A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally...

12) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. It has been on the list for 78 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,...

13) 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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#14 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 28 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...

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

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Sides, Hampton

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. It has been on the list for 6 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...