There are 264 books in the New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers 2015 list. Here are the 24 books ranked from 241 to 264.
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241. Dean & Me (A Love Story)
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by: Jerry Lewis , James Kaplan Release date: Dec 18, 2007 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The funnier half of Martin and Lewis remembers his time with the man he calls “my partner”; first published in 2005.
242. My Lobotomy
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by: Howard Dully , Charles Fleming Release date: Sep 04, 2007 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
In 1960, at age 12, Dully was subjected to a transorbital lobotomy to cure his supposed psychological problems.
243. Tell Me Where It Hurts
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by: Nick Trout Release date: Mar 11, 2008 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A veterinary surgeon describes recent advances in animal medicine and the controversies that come with them.
244. Mark Twain: Man In White
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by: Michael Shelden Release date: Jan 26, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A biography of Twain in his vibrant last years of life.
245. Auschwitz
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by: Miklos Nyiszli Release date: Apr 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An eyewitness account of the Nazi death camp, written shortly after the war by a doctor who was a prisoner there.
246. Neurotribes
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by: Steve Silberman Release date: Jan 01, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A science writer argues that conditions like autism are natural human variations with some adaptive elements, and surveys the history of autism and the current spike in diagnoses.
247. Endzone
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by: John U Bacon Release date: Sep 01, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A tribute to the Michigan Wolverines football program, its rise, fall and resurgence.
248. Jimmy Stewart
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by: Michael Munn Release date: Mar 01, 2013 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A biography concentrates on the actor’s little-known private side.
249. Relentless Strike
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by: Sean Naylor Release date: Sep 01, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The inside story of Joint Special Operations Command, the military’s premier weapon in the war against terror.
250. Lyndon Johnson And The American Dream
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by: Doris Kearns Goodwin Release date: Aug 04, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A biography draws from research and from the author’s time spent working at the White House from 1967 to 1969.
251. Reckless
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by: Chrissie Hynde Release date: Sep 08, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The Pretenders’ frontwoman revisits four decades in the music industry.
252. Waiting To Be Heard
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by: Am, a Knox Release date: Apr 30, 2013 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Knox, who was convicted of the murder of her roommate in 2009 when she was an American student in Italy, a conviction that was overturned in 2011, tells her story.
253. The Prize
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by: Dale Russakoff Release date: Sep 08, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
What happened when Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie and Cory Booker took on school reform in Newark, N.J.
254. A Train In Winter
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by: Caroline Moorehead Release date: Nov 08, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The fate of 230 Frenchwomen, members of the Resistance, sent to Auschwitz in 1943; originally published in 2011.
255. The Art Of Memoir
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by: Mary Karr Release date: Sep 15, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The author of “The Liars’ Club,” “Cherry” and “Lit” offers instruction in memoir-writing and discusses her favorite writers’ work.
256. Killing The Messenger
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by: David Brock Release date: Sep 15, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A former right-wing operative describes his transformation and passionately defends Hillary Clinton
257. Hitler’s Last Witness
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by: Rochus Misch , others Release date: Aug 30, 2014 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An account of Hitler’s private life by a soldier who was part of his SS bodyguard, and died in 2013.
258. The Three Roosevelts
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by: James MacGregor Burns , Susan Dunn Release date: Dec 01, 2007 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A political biography of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; first published in 2001.
259. The Tudors
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by: G J Meyer Release date: Feb 23, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The story of England’s most notorious dynasty. Originally published in 2010.
260. Unlikeable
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by: Edward Klein Release date: Sep 28, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A unflattering portrait of Hillary Clinton.
261. _____ My Dad Says
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by: Justin Halpern Release date: May 04, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A coming-of-age memoir organized around the musings, purveyed on Twitter, of the author’s father.
262. The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace
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by: Jeff Hobbs Release date: Sep 23, 2014 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The story of a brilliant young man from a New Jersey ghetto who graduated from Yale but was murdered as a drug dealer at age 30.
263. Saving Capitalism
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by: Robert B Reich Release date: Jan 01, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, now a professor of public policy, considers how to reverse income inequality.
264. The Sweet Life In Paris
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by: David Lebovitz Release date: May 05, 2009 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A cook moves to Paris: adventures and recipes. Originally published in 2009.
Last updated on December 18, 2021
