NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction

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

Author

Grann, David

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 5 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...

2) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 8 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,...

3) Spare

Author

Harry

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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).

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"It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full...

4) I'm glad my mom died

Author

McCurdy, Jennette

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 41 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?"...

5) The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

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Obama, Michelle

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 27 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 • In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.

There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers...

6) King: a life

Author

Eig, Jonathan

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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"-- Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist...

7) Poverty, by America

Author

Desmond, Matthew

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. It has been on the list for 8 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) Greenlights

Author

McConaughey, Matthew

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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 94 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"-- "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...

9) You can't joke about that: why everything is funny, nothing is sacred, and we're all in this together

Author

Timpf, Kat

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2023-06-04. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"Comedian Kat Timpf shares how humor has kept her going during the hardest times of her life, and confronts the cancel culture that threatens modern comedy"-- In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Timpf shows why much of the way we talk about sensitive subjects is wrong. We push ourselves into unnecessary conflicts when we should...