NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction

New York Times - Hardcover Nonfiction

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Book cover for "I'll have what she's having"
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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"At ten years old, Chelsea opened a lemonade stand and realized she'd make more money if the drinks were spiked. So she added vodka to her recipe and used her earnings to upgrade herself to first-class on a family vacation-leaving her parents and siblings in coach. At nineteen, she moved to Los Angeles and got fired from her temp job when she admitted she didn't know how to transfer calls. She played pickleball with the scions of an American dynasty....
Book cover for "The anxious generation"
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5 stars
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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 49 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...
Book cover for "The technological republic"
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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"A sweeping indictment of Silicon Valley, showing how the West has slid into a culture of complacency, even as we enter a new era of mounting global threats"--
Book cover for "Seven things you can't say about China"
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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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Seven Things You Can't Say About China argues that China's long-term strategy of influence could pose significant challenges to the United States and discusses actions that may be necessary to address these concerns.
Book cover for "The house of my mother"
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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 7 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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4 stars
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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).
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The software giant explores his personal journey, recounting his early influences, friendships, family and first steps in computing that paved the way for his revolutionary career and later philanthropic focus, offering an intimate look at the experiences that shaped him.
Book cover for "One day, everyone will have always been against this"
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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn't consider you fully human. On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been...
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4.3 stars
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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 91 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,...
Book cover for "The serviceberry"
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5 stars
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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 15 week(s).
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As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms...
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3 stars
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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).
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"In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there...
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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"Ever since its debut in the fall of 1975, Saturday Night Live's impact on the culture has been lasting and profound. It has been a breeding ground for our brightest comedy stars, launching the careers of John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Pete Davidson, and many many more. Its iconic sketches--from Wayne's World to Weekend Update to Coneheads to the Californians to of course,...
Book cover for "The sirens' call"
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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-03-16. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).
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"From the NYT-bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society"-- The modern world presents a challenge: distractions, a loss of focus, and an increasing tendency to engage with things that may not be serving our best interests. We encounter people absorbed in their phones, sometimes...