Hardcover Nonfiction

by Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins (Hay House LLC, ISBN: 9781401971366); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 37 "If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. This book puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands."

by John Green (Crash Course Books, ISBN: 9780525556572); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 25 "John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's deadliest disease."

by Arundhati Roy (Scribner, ISBN: 9781668094716); Weeks on List: 1 "Arundhati Roy's raw and deeply moving memoir traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's life both as a woman and a writer. A September 2025 Indie Next Pick."

by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner, ISBN: 9781668072240); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 42 "A bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. The #1 Indie Next Pick for December 2024."

by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781668023488); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 25 "A once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life."

by Robert B. Reich (Knopf, ISBN: 9780593803288); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 5 "From political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author, Robert B. Reich comes a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in so many important ways, and still has lots of work to do."

by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books, ISBN: 9780593854280); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 9 "The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits. A July 2025 Indie Next Pick and a Summer 2025 Indies Introduce Selection."

by Omar El Akkad (Knopf, ISBN: 9780593804148); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 28 "From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values. A March 2025 Indie Next Pick."

by Suleika Jaouad (Random House, ISBN: 9780593734636); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 20 "A guide to the art of journaling--and a meditation on the central questions of life--by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms."

by Maybell Eequay (Summersdale, ISBN: 9781837994731); Weeks on List: 1 "Dive into this uplifting little book to discover love, wisdom and life lessons, as told by the internet's beloved mushroom frog."