Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction
20 books
By David Sedaris
A humorist returns with more wry takes on contemporary life.
By Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.
By Eben Alexander
A neurosurgeon recounts his near death experience during a coma from bacterial meningitis.
By Michael Pollan
A celebration of braising, baking, grilling and fermenting.
By Cheryl Strayed
An account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. Originally published in 2012 and a 2014 movie.
By Michael Ritland with Gary Brozek
A former member of the Navy SEALs describes his subsequent career finding, training and supplying working dogs to the U.S. military.
By Crystal McVea
What happened to a teacher from Oklahoma during nine minutes of unconsciousness.
By Ben C Carson and Candy Carson
A doctor explores what makes America great.
By Jeremy Scahill
America’s new covert wars, fought by secret commandos.
By Carol Burnett
The comedian recalls her oldest daughter, who died in 2002.
By Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
A member of the Navy Seals who has the most career sniper kills in United States military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
By Dave Liniger with Laura Morton
The founder of Re/Max recounts his ordeal with a staph infection that left him paralyzed.
By Susan Cain
Introverts — approximately one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society.
By Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
The promise and peril of the continuing information and technology revolution for people, nations and business.
By Mark Mazzetti
The Times’s national security correspondent describes how the lines between the C.I.A. and the American military have been blurred.
By Mary Roach
A science writer’s pilgrimage down the digestive tract; by the author of “Stiff,” “Spook,” “Bonk” and “Packing for Mars.”
By Willie and Korie Robertson with Mark Schlabach
Behind the scenes at the A&E show “Duck Dynasty.”
By Daniel Kahneman
When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in making business and personal decisions.
By Jackie Hance with Janice Kaplan
The experience of a mother whose three daughters were killed when her sister-in-law drove the wrong way down the Taconic Parkway.
By Laura Hillenbrand
An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Read by Edward Herrmann. 13 hours, 56 minutes unabridged.