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