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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first...
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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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An insider account charting one woman's career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.
3. Abundance
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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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This book discusses the history of the twenty-first century as a story of unaffordability and shortage in America. It highlights the national housing crisis, labor shortages due to limited immigration, insufficient clean- energy infrastructure, and delayed, over-budget public projects. The author argues that the root cause of these problems is a lack of sufficient building and proactive planning over the decades. Many of today's issues stem from past...
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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 53 week(s).
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"After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children...
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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"How right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics-and what we can do about it to save our democracy"--
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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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"For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the campus of the University of Virginia, as a student athlete; on the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all looked, in many ways, perfect. But Amy was running from something-a secret she was keeping not only from her family and friends, but unconsciously from herself. "You're...
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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It's also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it's made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone. Michael Lewis invited his favorite writers to find someone doing an interesting job for the government and write about...
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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"The United States Congress has always been messy and far-from-august, but as Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater show here, in scorching, shocking detail, it has reached some kind of chaotic bottom. The anarchy that reigned over Congress's lower chamber in the wake of the January 6th attack on the Capitol Building--the election of serial liar and conman George Santos, revenge porn being shown on the floor of the House, and the theatrical high jinks...
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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 95 week(s).
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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...
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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).
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"Shari Franke's childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface--Ruby's wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than...
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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"A legal commentator and former litigator's argument for repealing ten laws he believes are making life worse for Americans"--
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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).
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In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer reflects on the practice of harvesting serviceberries and the concept of reciprocity central to Indigenous wisdom. She contrasts this with the dominant economic system rooted in scarcity, competition, and resource hoarding. Kimmerer highlights how the serviceberry tree, by sharing its abundance with its ecosystem, embodies a model of interdependence and mutual support. This ethic of reciprocity, she argues,...
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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-04-13. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).
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"How do we live compassionately in a time of violence and despair? What can we do with our private disappointments and the anger we feel over an unjust world? In his most personal book yet, Richard Rohr turns to the writings of the Jewish prophets, showing how some of the lesser-read books of the Bible offer us a path forward today. The prophets' writings echo the spectrum of human development. Beneath their initial fervor and their forceful words,...