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Top Trade Paperback Nonfiction Books

Last Updated: March 15, 2020

This is a list of the top 10 selling paperback nonfiction books in the United States for the week. Rankings reflect sales at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands.

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#1 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures In The Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain
Weeks On Bestseller List: 43

A memoir-expos� of the restaurant world. Originally published in 2000.

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    #2 Things That Matter: Three Decades Of Passions, Pastimes And Politics
    by Charles Krauthammer
    Weeks On Bestseller List: 11

    Essays and reflections from the recently deceased conservative columnist.

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    #3 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    by Yuval Noah Harari
    Weeks On Bestseller List: 11

    How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.

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    #4 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    by David Grann
    Weeks On Bestseller List: 17

    The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling F.B.I. intervened, ineffectively.

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    #5W Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    by J.D. Vance
    Weeks On Bestseller List: 13

    A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood.

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    #6 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    by Matthew Walker
    Weeks On Bestseller List: 4

    A neuroscientist uses recent scientific discoveries to explain the functions of sleep and dreams.

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    #7 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
    by Bryan Stevenson
    Weeks On Bestseller List: 114

    A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.

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    #8 White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
    by Robin DiAngelo
    Weeks On Bestseller List: 4

    Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits cross-racial dialogue.

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    #9 Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
    by Bill Browder
    Weeks On Bestseller List: 4

    An American hedge fund manager in Russia is expelled by kleptocrats who then seize his property. Browder's investigation into the death of his attorney led to the Magnitsky Act.

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    #10 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
    by Phil Knight
    Weeks On Bestseller List: 13

    A memoir by the co-founder of Nike, Inc.

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