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Data from The New York Times · Updated weekly · Week of Aug 8

The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list, week of August 8, 2026.

15 books
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Haberman, Maggie
Your Fellow Americans Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home by Peter Santenello
Welcome to Your Life: Love, Death & Tears For Fears – An Iconic Musician's Journey Through Grief, Addiction, and Recovery by Orzabal, Roland
Strangers A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
Biological War A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
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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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7
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Your Fellow Americans Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home by Peter Santenello
Your Fellow Americans Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home
by Peter Santenello

An independent journalist and filmmaker profiles an array of Americans to demonstrate our complexities.

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Welcome to Your Life: Love, Death & Tears For Fears – An Iconic Musician's Journey Through Grief, Addiction, and Recovery by Orzabal, Roland
Welcome to Your Life: Love, Death & Tears For Fears – An Iconic Musician's Journey Through Grief, Addiction, and Recovery
by Orzabal, Roland

A founding member of the English band Tears for Fears shares some of his experiences and his fascination with astrology.

Weeks on list
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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.

Weeks on list
29
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Biological War A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
Biological War A Scenario
by Annie Jacobsen

The author of “Nuclear War” describes potential outcomes of biological warfare, including mass death and societal breakdown.

Weeks on list
2
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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.

Weeks on list
18
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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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Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About A Memoir by Isabel Klee
Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About A Memoir
by Isabel Klee

Klee helps foster dogs overcome challenges while she faces her own complications.

Weeks on list
9
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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.

Weeks on list
118
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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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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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All That's Unseen - An Appalachian Memoir by Emilee Hackney
All That's Unseen - An Appalachian Memoir
by Emilee Hackney

Hackney recounts moving away from her Pentecostal upbringing in the Appalachian Mountains to attend Harvard.

Weeks on list
2
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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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81
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How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University by Theo Baker
How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
by Theo Baker

The Stanford University student chronicles his investigation that helped end the tenure of Marc Tessier-Lavigne as the school’s president.

Weeks on list
2
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The Real Anthony Fauci Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Real Anthony Fauci Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The anti-vaccine advocate gives his take on the former chief medical advisor to the president.

Weeks on list
20