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2024 Best Selling Nonfiction!

"Gone away is the bluebird, Here to stay is a new bird, He sings a love song, As we go along, Walking in a winter wonderland." --Bing Crosby, Winter Wonderland

Nonfiction readers had a range of picks this year, but for our DC customers, political books and memories reign supreme! In this gift guide based on the best-sellers, we've got just about everything for the nonfiction reader in your life!

Hardcover

1) Catology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Cats by Stefan Gates

2) Dogology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Dogs by Stefan Gates

3) The Creative ACT: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

4) War by Bob Woodward

5) The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig 

6) Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

7) The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

8) Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less by Jim Vandehei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz

9) How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks

10) The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

11) What's Next: A Backstage Pass to the West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service by Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary McCormack

12) Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

Paperback

1) The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

2) On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis

3) All about Love: New Visions by bell hooks

4) Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton

5) On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

6) A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy

7) Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything about the World by Tim Marshall

8) Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

9) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

10) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman


Interested in buying? Check out the list here!