New York
Times
#1
Bestsellers
Nonfiction
(EP January 2013)
A selection of nonfiction
books that have appeared at
the top spot on the New York
Times bestseller list since its
beginning in 1942.
Titles are listed in date order. The year
that the book appeared on the bestseller
list is indicated in parentheses after the
title.
Black Boy (1945)
In: Works, 1991
By Richard Wright
FIC WRIGHT
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific By Raft
(1950)
By Thor Heyerdahl
NF 910.4 HEYERDAHL
The Power of Positive Thinking
(1953)
By Norman Vincent Peale
NF 248.4 PEALE
A Gift From the Sea (1955)
By Anne Morrow Lindbergh
NF 128 LINDBERGH
Travels With Charley: In
Search of America (1962)
By John Steinbeck
NF 917.3 STEINBECK
Profiles in Courage (1963)
By John F. Kennedy
NF 920 KEN
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A Moveable Feast (1964)
By Ernest Hemingway
FIC HEMINGWAY
NF = Nonfiction Collection; BIO = Biography; LP = Large
Print Nonfiction; LP BIO = Large Print Biography; CD =
Book on CD; PLAY = Playaway Audio
Death of a President (1967)
By William Manchester
BIO KENNEDY
Bury My Heart at Wounded
Knee (1971)
By Dee Brown
NF 970.5 BROWN
Times to Remember (1974)
By Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
BIO KENNEDY
All Things Bright and
Beautiful (1974)
By James Herriot
NF, LPB 636.089 HERRIOT
Roots (1976)
By Alex Haley
NF 929.2 HALEY
Gnomes (1979)
By Wil Huygen
NF 398.2 HUYGEN
You’re Only Old Once! (1986)
By Dr. Seuss
NF 813.52 SEUSS
Fatherhood (1986)
By Bill Cosby
NF 306.874 COSBY
A Brief History of Time (1988)
By Stephen Hawking
NF, LPB 523.1 HAWKING
It’s Always Something (1989)
By Gilda Radner
BIO RADNER
The Civil War: An Illustrated History (1990)
By Geoffrey C. Ward
NF 973.7 WARD
When You Look Like Your Passport
Photo, It’s Time to Go Home (1991)
By Erma Bombeck
BIO BOMBECK
Me: Stories of My Life (1991)
By Katharine Hepburn
BIO, LPB BIO HEPBURN
The Hot Zone (1995)
By Richard Preston
NF 614.58 PRESTON
A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and
Nights on the PGA Tour (1995)
By John Feinstein
NF 796.352 FEINSTEIN
Angela’s Ashes (1996)
By Frank McCourt
NF 920 MCCOURT
A Reporter’s Life (1996)
By Walter Cronkite
BIO CRONKITE
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account
of the Mount Everest Disaster
(1997)
By Jon Krakauer
NF 796.522 KRA
The Royals (1997)
By Kitty Kelley
NF 920 KELLEY
Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil: A Savannah Story (1997)
By John Berendt
NF 975.872 BERENDT
Tuesdays With Morrie (1998)
By Mitch Albom
BIO, LPB BIO SCHWARTZ, BK ON CD BIO
ALB
The Greatest Generation
(1998)
By Tom Brokaw
NF 940.548 BROKAW
Flags of Our Fathers (2000)
By James Bradley
NF 940.542 BRADLEY
The Beatles Anthology (2000)
OVERSIZE 920 BEATLES
Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival
at the South Pole (2001)
By Jerri Nielsen
BIO NIELSEN
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
(2001)
By Laura Hillenbrand
NF, BK ON CD 798.4 HIL
Napalm & Silly Putty (2001)
By George Carlin
NF 818 CARLIN
John Adams (2001)
By David McCullough
BIO, LPB BIO, BK ON CD BIO ADAMS
Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who
Flew B-24s Over Germany (2001)
By Stephen Ambrose
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005)
By Malcolm Gladwell
NF, LPB, BK ON CD 940.54 AMBROSE
NF, LPB, BK ON CD 153.44 GLADWELL
Let’s Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage (2002)
By Lisa Beamer
BIO BEAMER
1776 (2005)
By David McCullough
NF, LPB, BK ON CD 973.3
MCCULLOUGH
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the
Ripper– Case Closed (2002)
By Patricia Cornwell
Marley and Me (2006)
By John Grogan
NF, LPB 364.152 CORNWELL
I Feel Bad About My Neck (2006)
By Nora Ephron
The Devil in the White City (2003)
By Erik Larson
NF 364.15 LARSON
I Am A Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story (2003)
By Rick Bragg
BIO LYNCH
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves (2004)
By Lynne Truss
NF 428.2 TRUSS
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and
Denim (2004)
By David Sedaris
NF 814.54 SED
Big Russ and Me (2004)
By Tim Russert
BIO, LPB BIO RUSSERT
My Life (2004)
By Bill Clinton
BIO, BK ON CD BIO CLINTON
NF, BK CD 636.752 GROGAN
NF, LPB 814.54 EPH, BK ON CD EPH
The Audacity of Hope (2006)
By Barack Obama
BIO, BK ON CD BIO OBAMA
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of
a Boy Soldier (2007)
By Ishmael Beah
BIO, LPB BIO, BK CD BIO BEAH
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008)
By Michael Pollan
NF, LPB 613.2 POL
Home: A Memoir of My Early
Years (2008)
By Julie Andrews
BIO, LPB BIO, BK CD BIO ANDREWS
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat
Who Touched the World (2008)
By Vicki Myron
NF, LPB, BK ON CD 636.809 MYRON
The Yankee Years (2009)
By Joe Torre
BIO TORRE
Oprah: A Biography (2010)
By Kitty Kelley
BIO OPRAH, LPB BIO WINFREY
Grand Design (2010)
By Stephen Hawking
NF 523.1 HAW
Decision Points (2010)
By George W. Bush
BIO, BK ON CD BIO BUSH
Unbroken (2011)
By Laura Hillenbrand
BIO, LPB BIO, BK ON CD
BIO ZAMPERINI
In the Garden of Beasts (2011)
By Erik Larson
BIO DODD, LPB BIO, BK CD BIO LAR
A Stolen Life (2011)
By Jaycee Dugard
BIO, BK ON CD BIO DUGARD
Killing Lincoln (2011)
By Bill O’Reilly
NF, LPB, BK CD 973.709 O’REILLY
Wild: From Lost to Found
on the Pacific Crest Trail
(2012)
By Cheryl Strayed
BIO, BK ON CD BIO
STRAYED