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New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
February 5, 2017
1. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance

A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America's white working class through his own childhood in the Rust Belt.
2. Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney

Eisenhower's farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.
3. Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

The host of The O'Reilly Factor recounts the final years of World War II.
4. The Magnolia Story
by Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino

The lives of the couple who star in the HGTV show Fixer Upper.
5. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

A discussion between two spiritual leaders about how to find joy in the face of suffering.
6. The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
by Michael Lewis

How the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumptions about the decision-making process and invented the field of behavioral economics.
7. The Princess Diarist
by Carrie Fisher

Recollections of life on the set of the first Star Wars movie by the actress and writer, who died in December.
8. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by Michael Dyson

A frank and searing discussion of race.
9. The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
by Douglas Preston

A frightening search for a lost civilization in the Honduran rain forest.
10. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
by Margot Lee Shetterly

The black women mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA. The basis of the movie.
11. When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi

A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.
12. Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Transformed America
by Jonathan Chait

An argument for the durability of Obama's legacy.
13. Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A meditation on race in America.
14. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman

How globalization, climate change and the accelerating  pace of technology are reshaping the world, and what we can do about it.
15. Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah

A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the comedian, now the host of The Daily Show.
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A version of this list appears in the February 5, 2017 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending January 21, 2017.


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