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NYT Nonfiction Bestsellers August 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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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman Drawing on extensive reporting and interviews inside the Trump White House, two award-winning New York Times journalists follow the first year of his second term as aides, lawyers and military leaders navigate court fights, border policy, foreign crises and an administration that has pushed the office well beyond its earlier limits, offering a close view of how power is used, resisted and normalized in Washington and abroad.
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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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Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by J. D. Vance Tracing his path from a Protestant childhood through atheism and into Catholicism, the Vice President reflects on family, marriage, fatherhood and public life while considering how faith shaped his choices, drew him back to church and continues to inform his view of the future.
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Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried about: A Memoir by Isabel Klee This New York City memoir about a young woman’s search for love, belonging and purpose follows her from a basement apartment to a life centered on rescue dogs, where complicated relationships, hard choices and the animals she fosters help shape a community and a more grounded sense of home.
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The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World by Brian Tyler Cohen Making the argument that power shapes politics as much as policy, Cohen examines how Republicans have expanded it, how Democrats have sometimes failed to use it, and what progressives might do differently in office, offering a practical look at post-Trump governance, institutional repair and the choices that will determine whether democracy becomes more durable or more fragile.
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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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Cancel Me If You Can by Dave Portnoy From a four-page Boston sports paper to a multimillion-dollar media company, Dave Portnoy traces how he built Barstool Sports through direct writing, betting culture, loyal fans and repeated reinvention, while also reflecting on the controversies, setbacks and risky decisions that shaped his brand and public persona.
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The Land and Its People: Essays by David Sedaris In a series of essays that move from airports and clinics to homes, train stations and a few far-flung trips, Sedaris reflects on aging, family, travel and the awkward comedy of daily life, mixing irritation, tenderness and self-deprecation as he notices the people, animals and small absurdities that keep interrupting his attempts to stay organized and composed.
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi At thirty-six, the neurosurgeon training for the career he had long pursued was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, forcing him to move from treating patients to becoming one himself - as he reflects on medicine, fatherhood, mortality and what gives a life meaning.
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams The former Facebook executive recounts how the company’s global ambitions, internal culture and political reach shaped her years there, from private-jet trips and meetings with world leaders to workplace double standards, election politics and the pressures of working motherhood, while tracing how power and secrecy altered both the platform and the people around it.
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