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NYT Nonfiction Bestsellers July 2026 |
Many of these books are on our Bestsellers Shelves or available as eBooks. Call us to hold available copies: 415.789.2661 |
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The Land and Its People: Essays by David Sedaris Trying to make sense of how we live, travel and age, the longtime essayist turns his eye to life as a foreigner, brother and friend, whether fumbling through caregiving after his partner’s surgery, trading stories on the road with an old companion, practicing another language with an unhelpful app or tallying the people he has loved and lost, finding in small frustrations and odd pleasures a wry, clear-eyed appreciation for human quirks.
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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle BurdenIn this haunting and exquisitely written memoir, Belle Burden revisits the sudden collapse of her decades‑long marriage during the early months of the pandemic, tracing the quiet unraveling of intimacy, the illusions that sustain love and the hard‑won emergence of a voice that redefines what it means to endure loss and rediscover strength.
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Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future by Rye BarcottThe U.S. Marine and co-founder of With Honor and written ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States offers the story of principled veterans who work across party lines to shape our nation and inspire us to serve with courage in our own lives: Mikie Sherrill, Todd Young, Mark Kelly, Brian Fitzpatrick, Wes Moore, Dan Crenshaw, Seth Moulton, John James, Don Bacon and Jared Golden.
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The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America by Raphael G. Warnock Drawing on the prophetic language of Isaiah and his experience in the pulpit and the Senate, Warnock offers a moral map for the U.S. as it approaches its 250th year, reflecting on voting rights, gun violence, mass incarceration, persistent poverty, money’s influence in politics and the climate crisis, and arguing that democratic participation is a kind of shared prayer that can help bend public life toward justice, community and hope.
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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe After their nineteen‑year‑old son plummets from a luxury riverside tower, a London couple uncover that he had built a secret identity as the son of a Russian oligarch and that his sudden death may involve a slippery businessman and a violent gangster, drawing them into a hidden world of dirty money, corruption and the painful question of who their son truly became.
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America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries by Eddie S. Glaude Glaude traces how national celebrations have often reinforced comforting myths about innocence and freedom, looking to writers, activists and thinkers across two and a half centuries to examine cycles of racial injustice, contested belonging and competing stories of who “we” are and inviting readers to confront a difficult past in order to imagine a more honest and inclusive future.
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The Case for America: An Argument on Behalf of Our Nation by Bret Baier Tracing the country’s beginnings to the decision to declare independence, Baier reflects on how ideals of freedom, unity and resilience have shaped American history’s brightest achievements and darkest failures, weighing current debates over patriotism and criticism while drawing on voices from historians to business leaders to argue that facing flaws honestly can strengthen, not weaken, a shared national story.
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Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter by Neil DeGrasse Tyson Mixing scientific reasoning with pop‑culture lore, Tyson imagines how extraterrestrials might realistically travel, communicate, look and behave if they ever reached Earth, then considers what our technology, politics, art and everyday habits would reveal to them, offering thought experiments, historical context and even first‑contact etiquette for anyone curious about UFO sightings, alien visitations or the chances that we are not alone in the universe.
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All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches by Ben Rhodes Tracing 250 years of argument over who counts as American, this book moves through fifteen key speeches - from early constitutional debates and Confederate justifications of slavery to civil rights visions and recent populist rallies - reconstructing the people, movements and conflicts behind them to show how competing stories of inheritance and exclusion, equality and belonging have shaped national identity and the power of political language.
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Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind by Gad Saad Arguing that an overextension of compassion has distorted public policy, Saad contends that a focus on protecting perceived victims at all costs has led to lenient treatment of offenders, erosion of accountability and confusion over basic norms, urging readers to question such approaches, reassert common-sense boundaries and reconsider how empathy should operate in debates over crime, immigration and social identity.
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, Bacon revisits the ore carrier’s final voyage on Lake Superior and the storm that destroyed it, combining historical research with the voices of families left behind to reconstruct the ship’s last hours and explore how its loss and the questions that still surround it have lingered in maritime history and memory.
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