There are 11 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best Sellers 2018. Sapiens written by Yuval Noah Harari is listed as the #1 best seller for 18 weeks.
There are 79 books in the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best Sellers 2018 list. Being Mortal written by Atul Gawande is in this list for 50 weeks.
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#1 New York Times Best Sellers 2018
1. Sapiens
Weeks listed as #1: 18
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by: Yuval Noah Harari Release date: May 15, 2018 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.
2. Horse Soldiers
Weeks listed as #1: 10
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by: Doug Stanton Release date: Dec 19, 2017 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A small group of Special Forces operatives fought the Taliban on horseback shortly after Sept. 11.
3. Kitchen Confidential
Weeks listed as #1: 9
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by: Anthony Bourdain Release date: Dec 10, 2008 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A memoir-exposé of the restaurant world.
4. Killers Of The Flower Moon
Weeks listed as #1: 5
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by: David Grann Release date: Apr 18, 2017 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil.
5. A Brief History Of Time
Weeks listed as #1: 3
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by: Stephen Hawking Release date: Jan 01, 1998 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The British cosmologist reviews efforts to create a unified theory of the universe; first published in 1988.
6. Hillbilly Elegy
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: J.D. Vance Release date: Jun 28, 2016 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood in the Rust Belt.
7. Being Mortal
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Atul Gaw, e Release date: Oct 07, 2014 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life, and how they can do better.
8. Alexander Hamilton
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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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.
9. Things That Matter
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Charles Krauthammer Release date: Oct 22, 2013 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Three decades’ worth of essays from the conservative columnist.
10. Grit
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Angela Duckworth Release date: May 03, 2016 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A psychologist argues that passion and perseverance are the keys to success.
11. Black Klansman
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Ron Stallworth Release date: Jul 31, 2018 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The first black detective of the Colorado Springs Police Department goes undercover to investigate the Ku Klux Klan.
Last updated on December 8, 2021