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New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
May 23, 2021

1. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard 

The 10th book in the conservative commentator's Killing series looks at organized crime in the United States during the 20th century.
2. What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.
3. The Premonition
by Michael Lewis

Stories of skeptics who went against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid-19.
4. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
by Suzanne Simard

An ecologist describes ways trees communicate, cooperate and compete.
5. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
by Malcolm Gladwell

A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.
6. Persist
by Elizabeth Warren

The senior senator from Massachusetts shares six influential perspectives that shaped her life and advocacy.
7. Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey

The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
8. Untamed
by Glennon Doyle

The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
9. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner

The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.
10. You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
by Tarana Burke (editor) and Brené Brown (editor)

An anthology of writing on the Black experience and shame resilience.
11. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
12. Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants
by George W. Bush

Forty-three portraits by the former president, of men and women who have immigrated to the United States.
13. The Tyranny of Big Tech
by Josh Hawley

The Republican senator from Missouri gives his assessment of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple.
14. On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed

The Pulitzer Prize winner weaves together American history with personal memoir to show the importance of events in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.
15. The Wreckage of My Presence
by Casey Wilson

Essays by the actress and comedian on the ups and downs of womanhood and motherhood.
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A version of this list appears in the May 23,2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 8, 2021.
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