ListsEditorialHardcover Nonfiction
📚Partner list

Hardcover Nonfiction

Data from The New York Times · Updated weekly · Week of Aug 22

The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list, week of August 22, 2026.

15 books
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Haberman, Maggie
This Is Me: A Reckoning by Hayden Panettiere
The Nerd Reich - Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Durán
The Day After - How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World by Brian Tyler Cohen
Strangers A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
1
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.

Weeks on list
9
2
This Is Me: A Reckoning by Hayden Panettiere
This Is Me: A Reckoning
by Hayden Panettiere

The late Golden Globe-nominated actress describes how she contended with fame and handled difficulties in her life.

Weeks on list
2
3
The Nerd Reich - Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Durán
The Nerd Reich - Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
by Gil Durán

An independent journalist portrays a new political order that would supplant elected governments with corporate rule.

Weeks on list
1
4
The Day After - How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World by Brian Tyler Cohen
The Day After - How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World
by Brian Tyler Cohen

The author of “Shameless” looks at the relationship Republicans and Democrats have to power and prescribes ways for it to be used after Donald Trump’s presidency.

Weeks on list
4
5
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
31
6
No Prophets - The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism by Jared Huffman
No Prophets - The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism
by Jared Huffman

The California congressman describes Christian nationalism’s work inside government to end the separation of church and state.

Weeks on list
1
7
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
4
8
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
20
9
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
11
10
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
120
11
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.

Weeks on list
11
12
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.

Weeks on list
13
13
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.

Weeks on list
83
14
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.

Weeks on list
10
15
Beyond Darwin - How Epigenetics, Quantum Science, and Cooperation Shape Humanity's Future by Bruce H. Lipton
Beyond Darwin - How Epigenetics, Quantum Science, and Cooperation Shape Humanity's Future
by Bruce H. Lipton

Lipton argues that cooperation rather than competition drives human evolution.

Weeks on list
1