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New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
March 12, 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. 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.
3. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
by
Yuval Harari
A provocative look into the future by the author of
Sapiens.
4. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
by
Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
Two spiritual leaders discuss how to find joy in the face of suffering.
5. Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
by
David Horowitz
A battle plan for the Trump White House.
6. This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever
by
Rory Feek
The songwriter describes his difficult childhood, love for his wife, and her death from cancer in 2016.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by
Yuval Harari
How Homo sapiens became Earth's dominant species.
11. 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.
12. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space
by
Margot Shetterly
The black women mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA. The basis of the movie.
13. 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.
14. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by
Michael Eric Dyson
A frank and searing discussion of race.
15. 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.
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A version of this list appears in the March 12, 2017 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending February 25, 2017.
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