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NYT Nonfiction Bestsellers May 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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When We See You Again by Rachel Goldberg-Polin On the morning of October 7, 2023, a woman whose life had been comfortably ordinary is thrust into a stark new reality when her twenty‑three‑year‑old son is abducted from a music festival, and across the long months that follow she chronicles public advocacy and private anguish, the relentless effort to bring hostages home, and the fragile, flickering moments of inner light that begin to coexist with overwhelming grief.
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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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Famesick: A Memoir by Lena Dunham Moving between doctor’s visits, television sets and high‑profile events, the creator of Girls recounts a decade shaped by chronic illness, public triumphs and private collapse, tracing how her drive to work and be seen collided with the limits of her body and the support of those closest to her.
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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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The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land by Aziz Abu Sarah A Palestinian and an Israeli who have each lost family to the long‑running conflict join a weeklong journey across a landscape marked by memory, violence and competing histories, demonstrating how dialogue, shared grief and deliberate acts of empathy can challenge the expectation that their bond is impossible.
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This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark by Craig Fehrman Tracing the return of Lewis and Clark in 1806 and the long, difficult journey that came before it, this narrative shifts the spotlight from the famous captains to soldiers, Native leaders, enslaved and working‑class participants and Thomas Jefferson himself, using new documents and varied perspectives to show how a sprawling federal expedition was shaped by many competing ambitions, negotiations and sacrifices.
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You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir by Christina Applegate Confined largely to bed after an MS diagnosis halted a decades-long career that began in childhood on LA sets, the TV star reviews her early fame, a volatile family life marked by addiction and abandonment, painful experiences with abuse, illness and self-doubt and the friendships, motherhood and hard-won resilience that have helped her make sense of the girl she was and the woman she has become.
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A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness by Michael Pollan Exploring one of science’s most stubborn puzzles, Pollan surveys leading and sometimes radical views on how subjective experience arises, following researchers who probe consciousness in the brain, in plants and in AI and drawing on philosophy, literature, spirituality and psychedelics to ask what awareness is, who or what might possess it and how better understanding it could change how we live.
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The Rolling Stones: The Biography by Bob Spitz Beginning with two London teenagers obsessed with American blues and following the band they built over six turbulent decades, this history tracks shifting lineups, creative peaks, personal rifts and the enduring partnership at its center, showing how a group shaped by tragedy, reinvention and relentless performance managed to turn raw musical passion into a long-running, era-defining career.
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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts GiuffreVirginia Roberts Giuffre’s memoir recounts her abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, her escape at nineteen and her decision to speak publicly against them, offering a candid account of systemic corruption and exploitation while preserving her legacy as a survivor who sought justice and advocated for victims before her death in 2025.
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