The New York Times: Nonfiction Bestsellers

The top 15 "Combined Print and E-Book Nonfiction" titles for 01/10/2026, fetched from The New York Times Books API.

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  • 1 (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.
  • 2 (3). THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin)
    How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
  • 3 (2). 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.
  • 4 (13). ON TYRANNY, Timothy Snyder (Crown)
    Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.
  • 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.
  • 6 (9). OUTLIVE, Peter Attia with Bill Gifford (Harmony)
    A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
  • 7 (10). EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS, John Green (Crash Course)
    The author of “The Anthropocene Reviewed” chronicles the fight against the deadly infectious disease tuberculosis.
  • 8 (5). 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.
  • 9 (14). 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.
  • 10 (7). A MARRIAGE AT SEA, Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead)
    In 1972, an incident with a breaching whale turns a couple’s dream of sailing on a boat into a monthslong struggle for survival on a raft.
  • 11 (12). I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED, Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
    The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.
  • 12 (4). THE LOOK, Michelle Obama with Meredith Koop (Crown)
    A celebration of the former first lady’s evolution in style, featuring more than 200 photographs.
  • 13 (-). HOMESCHOOLED, Stefan Merrill Block (Hanover Square)
    Block gives an account of his experiences with his mother after being taken out of school.
  • 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.
  • 15 (-). FAMILY OF SPIES, Christine Kuehn (Celadon)
    The story of a family that worked as Japanese and Nazi spies during World War II.