New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers 2014 Complete List Page 2

There are 206 books in the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers 2014 list. Here are the 30 books ranked from 31 to 60.

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31. How Not To Be Wrong

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Jordan Ellenberg
Release date: Jan 01, 2014
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A mathematician shows how his discipline helps us think about problems of politics, medicine and commerce.

32. Diary Of A Mad Diva

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Joan Rivers
Release date: Jul 01, 2014
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Humorous reflections about life, pop culture and celebrities.

33. In The Kingdom Of Ice

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Hampton Sides
Release date: Aug 05, 2014
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An 1879 polar voyage gone terribly wrong.

34. Food

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Jim Gaffigan
Release date: Oct 01, 2014
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The comedian, author of “Dad Is Fat,” describes his relationship with his subject.

35. Yes Please

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Amy Poehler
Release date: Oct 28, 2014
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A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress, the “S.N.L.” alumna and star of “Parks and Recreation.”

36. Jeter Unfiltered

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Derek Jeter Anthony Bozza
Release date: Oct 28, 2014
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The Yankee shortstop and team captain looks back over his career, with photographs from his recently concluded final season, as well as older ones.

37. Dreamers And Deceivers

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Glenn Beck Kevin Balfe
Release date: Oct 28, 2014
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More little-known stories from America’s past; a follow-up to “Miracles and Massacres.”

38. Finding Me

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Michelle Knight Michelle Burford Weinstein
Release date: May 06, 2014
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The story of a woman kidnapped in Cleveland in 2002, then tortured, who escaped in 2013.

39. The Mockingbird Next Door

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Marja Mills
Release date: Jan 01, 2014
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The author’s experience as Harper Lee’s neighbor.

40. 13 Hours

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Mitchell Zuckoff members of the Annex Security Team
Release date: Sep 09, 2014
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Six C.I.A. contract employees discuss their experience during the attack on the State Department compound and the nearby C.I.A. station called the “annex” in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.

41. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Neil Patrick Harris David Javerbaum
Release date: Sep 15, 2015
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The actor’s life story is structured as a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

42. So Anyway . . .

Weeks on the list: 6

by: John Cleese
Release date: Nov 04, 2014
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A memoir by the comedian, actor and writer, a former Python.

43. One Summer

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Bill Bryson
Release date: Jan 01, 2013
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The author of “A Short History of Nearly Everything” describes the events of the summer of 1927: Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight, Babe Ruth’s 60 homers, the great Mississippi flood.

44. Glitter And Glue

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Kelly Corrigan
Release date: Jan 01, 2014
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A memoir explores the relationships between mothers and daughters.

45. The Sixth Extinction

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Elizabeth Kolbert
Release date: Feb 11, 2014
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The New Yorker writer examines the role of man-made influences in causing plant and animal loss.

46. The Future Of The Mind

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Michio Kaku
Release date: Jan 01, 2014
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A theoretical physicist looks to a possible future of telepathy, mind-controlled robots and the uploading of memories.

47. John Wayne

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Scott Eyman
Release date: Apr 01, 2014
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A biography of the movie star surveys his life, his death and his legend.

48. The Romanov Sisters

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Helen Rappaport
Release date: Jun 03, 2014
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The story of the daughters of the last czar, who were executed in 1918.

49. A Spy Among Friends

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Ben Macintyre
Release date: Jul 29, 2014
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An account of the British Cold War spy Kim Philby focuses on the two close friends whose trust he betrayed.

50. Waking Up

Weeks on the list: 6

by: Sam Harris
Release date: Sep 09, 2014
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This exploration of consciousness by the author of “The End of Faith” proposes that spirituality can and should be divorced from religion.

51. Stop The Coming Civil War

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Michael Savage
Release date: Oct 07, 2014
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The radio host urges true patriots to save the country from the machinations of the left.

52. Zealot

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Reza Aslan
Release date: Jul 16, 2013
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A biography of Jesus of Nazareth presents him in the context of his times as the leader of a revolutionary movement.

53. 41

Weeks on the list: 5

by: George W Bush
Release date: Jan 01, 2014
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The 43rd president’s portrait of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st.

54. The Andy Cohen Diaries

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Andy Cohen
Release date: Nov 11, 2014
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One year in the (social) life of the TV producer and host of “Watch What Happens Live.”

55. Small Victories

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Anne Lamott
Release date: Nov 10, 2014
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Essays about forgiveness, transformation and grace.

56. The Second Machine Age

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Erik Brynjolfsson Andrew McAfee
Release date: Jan 20, 2014
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How digital technologies will change our lives and the economy, and what we can do to prepare ourselves.

57. Brainstorm

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Daniel J Siegel
Release date: Jan 07, 2014
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Understanding the adolescent mind.

58. Little Failure

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Gary Shteyngart
Release date: Jan 07, 2014
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A memoir of growing up in a family that immigrated from Leningrad to Queens.

59. My Age Of Anxiety

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Scott Stossel
Release date: Jan 01, 2014
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A study of anxiety disorder by the editor of The Atlantic, drawing on research as well as personal experience.

60. All Joy And No Fun

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Jennifer Senior
Release date: Jan 28, 2014
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A journalist examines how parenting has changed over the past half-century.

Last updated on December 8, 2021