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Data from The New York Times · Updated weekly · Week of Jul 4

The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list, week of July 4, 2026.

15 books
Cancel Me If You Can by Dave Portnoy
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Haberman, Maggie
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by Vance, J. D.
Strangers A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
Revolution - The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World by Eric Metaxas
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Cancel Me If You Can by Dave Portnoy
Cancel Me If You Can
by Dave Portnoy

The founder of Barstool Sports describes how he grew his business from a four-page newspaper into the digital media company it is today.

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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Haberman, Maggie
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
by Haberman, Maggie

Two White House correspondents for The New York Times delve into the first year of President Trump's second term.

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Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by Vance, J. D.
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
by Vance, J. D.

The vice president and author of “Hillbilly Elegy” describes how he perceives his faith played a part in his work in public life.

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Strangers A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
Strangers A Memoir of Marriage
by Belle Burden

Burden retraces her marriage of 20 years in search of clues to help shape her understanding about its demise and to find a way forward.

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Revolution - The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World by Eric Metaxas
Revolution - The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World
by Eric Metaxas

The author of “Martin Luther” and “Bonhoeffer” gives an account of the foundation of the United States of America.

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The Land and Its People - Essays by David Sedaris
The Land and Its People - Essays
by David Sedaris

Essays on the passage of time, complicated relationships and some unexpected delights life has to offer.

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Careless People A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Careless People A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
by Sarah Wynn-Williams

A former Facebook executive gives an account of policies and leadership at the social media platform.

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London Falling A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe
London Falling A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
by Patrick Radden Keefe

The author of “Say Nothing” details the efforts by the parents of a 19-year-old Londoner to uncover the truth about his mysterious death and secret life.

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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
by Walter Isaacson

The historian and biographer examines the concepts of a statement found in the Declaration of Independence.

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13
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Rage and the Republic The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution by Jonathan Turley
Rage and the Republic The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution
by Jonathan Turley

The law professor and legal analyst delves into the origins of and modern challenges to American democracy.

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The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by Jonathan Haidt

A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children.

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On Courage - How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear by Julia Angwin
On Courage - How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear
by Julia Angwin

The authors of the New Yorker essay “So You Want to Be a Dissident?” profile people who stood up to authoritarianism.

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When Breath Becomes Air Pulitzer Prize Finalist by Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air Pulitzer Prize Finalist
by Paul Kalanithi

A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.

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78
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Suicidal Empathy - Dying to Be Kind by Gad Saad
Suicidal Empathy - Dying to Be Kind
by Gad Saad

The host of the podcast “The Saad Truth” argues that what he considers misguided compassion is having a negative impact on society.

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Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future by Rye Barcott
Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future
by Rye Barcott

Profiles of Democratic and Republican politicians who previously served in the military or the F.B.I.

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