There are 9 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best Sellers 2016. Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow is listed as the #1 best seller for 23 weeks.
There are 66 books in the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best Sellers 2016 list. The Boys In The Boat written by Daniel James Brown is in this list for 52 weeks.
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#1 New York Times Best Sellers 2016
1. Alexander Hamilton
Weeks listed as #1: 23
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by: Ron Chernow Release date: Mar 29, 2005 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A biography of the first Treasury secretary, a major author of the Federalist Papers and an advocate of strong central government. Originally published in 2004 and the basis of the Broadway play.
2. The Boys In The Boat
Weeks listed as #1: 6
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by: Daniel James Brown Release date: Jun 04, 2013 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The story of the American rowers who pursued gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Originally published in 2013.
3. Thomas Jefferson And The Tripoli Pirates
Weeks listed as #1: 5
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by: Brian Kilmeade , Don Yaeger Release date: Jan 01, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The war against the Barbary pirates in 1801.
4. Dead Wake
Weeks listed as #1: 5
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by: Erik Larson Release date: Mar 10, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The last voyage of the Lusitania, by the author of “The Devil in the White City.”
5. 13 Hours
Weeks listed as #1: 5
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by: Mitchell Zuckoff , members of the Annex Security Team Release date: Sep 09, 2014 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
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.
6. Sully
Weeks listed as #1: 3
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by: Chesley B Sullenberger III , Jeffrey Zaslow Release date: Aug 09, 2016 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A memoir by the pilot who performed the successful emergency landing of a plane with 155 passengers on the Hudson River in 2009. The basis for the movie.
7. The Big Short
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: Michael Lewis Release date: Nov 16, 2015 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.
8. It Gets Worse
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: Shane Dawson Release date: Jul 19, 2016 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Personal essays, mostly humorous by the YouTube celebrity.
9. Outliers
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Malcolm Gladwell Release date: Nov 18, 2008 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Unexpected factors that explain why some people succeed, such as upbringing, timing and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.
Last updated on December 8, 2021