New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best Sellers 2015 Complete List Page 3

There are 81 books in the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best Sellers 2015 list. Here are the 21 books ranked from 61 to 81.

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61. Tipping Point

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Malcolm Gladwell
Release date: Jan 01, 2013
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A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

62. Heaven Is For Real

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Todd Burpo Lynn Vincent
Release date: Jan 01, 2011
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A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.

63. Going Clear

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by: Lawrence Wright
Release date: Jan 17, 2013
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the world of Scientology.

64. The Organized Mind

Weeks on the list: 2

by: Daniel J Levitin
Release date: Aug 19, 2014
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A professor draws on research in neuroscience to explain how organization can help us manage the overwhelming flood of information in our lives.

65. Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls

Weeks on the list: 2

by: David Sedaris
Release date: Apr 23, 2013
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Essays from the humorist on subjects like French dentistry and a North Carolina Costco and his father’s dinner attire.

66. The Secret History Of Wonder Woman

Weeks on the list: 1

by: Jill Lepore
Release date: Jan 01, 2014
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The Harvard historian and New Yorker writer argues that Wonder Woman’s creator was influenced by early feminists.

67. The Andy Cohen Diaries

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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.”

68. The Big Short

Weeks on the list: 1

by: Michael Lewis
Release date: Nov 16, 2015
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The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.

69. Voices From Chernobyl

Weeks on the list: 1

by: Svetlana Alexievich Translated Keith Gessen
Release date: Apr 18, 2006
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Interviews with people living with the after-effects of the 1996 explosion of the Russian nuclear reactor make up this testimonial history.

70. Lying In Wait

Weeks on the list: 1

by: Ann Rule
Release date: Nov 25, 2014
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Volume 17 of the Crime Files true-crime series.

71. Paddle Your Own Canoe

Weeks on the list: 1

by: Nick Offerman
Release date: Oct 01, 2013
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The “Parks and Recreation” actor combines autobiographical anecdotes and life advice.

72. Night Of The Gun

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by: David Carr
Release date: Aug 05, 2008
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A New York Times media columnist and culture reporter recounts his former life as a crack addict, cokehead and alcoholic, and how he got back on track.

73. All Joy And No Fun

Weeks on the list: 1

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

74. Glitter And Glue

Weeks on the list: 1

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

75. Elephant Company

Weeks on the list: 1

by: Vicki Constantine Croke
Release date: Jan 01, 2014
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A portrait of an Englishman known as Elephant Bill who supervised, and came to protect, the elephants employed by a teak company in Burma, and trained them to provide assistance during World War II.

76. The Future Of The Mind

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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.

77. America Again

Weeks on the list: 1

by: Stephen Colbert others
Release date: Oct 02, 2012
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The mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” tells how to bring America back from the brink.

78. 90 Minutes In Heaven

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by: Don Piper Cecil Murphey
Release date: Aug 25, 2015
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A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident.

79. Carsick

Weeks on the list: 1

by: John Waters
Release date: Jun 03, 2014
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The cult-film director hitchhikes across the country.

80. In The Kingdom Of Ice

Weeks on the list: 1

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

81. This Changes Everything

Weeks on the list: 1

by: Naomi Klein
Release date: Sep 16, 2014
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The journalist, author of “The Shock Doctrine,” makes the case for the existence of climate change and argues that the market cannot solve the crisis.

Last updated on December 8, 2021