Hardcover Nonfiction

by Glennon Doyle (The Dial Press, ISBN: 9781984801258); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 11 "In Doyle's most revealing and powerful memoir yet, she explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us."

by Erik Larson (Crown, ISBN: 9780385348713); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 13 "Larson's fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz is a March 2020 Indie Next List Great Read."

by David Allen Sibley (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307957894); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 6 "A bird book for birders and non-birders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing--and why."

by Tara Westover (Random House, ISBN: 9780399590504); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: * "Westover's unforgettable memoir about growing up, being kept out of school, leaving her survivalist family, and going on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. A Winter/Spring 2018 Indies Introduce title and the #1 Indie Next List Great Read for March 2018."

by Michelle Obama (Crown, ISBN: 9781524763138); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: * "Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations--and whose story inspires us to do the same."

by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne, ISBN: 9780062976581); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 21 "Radiant with Mackesy's warmth and gentle wit, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse blends hand-written narrative with dozens of drawings."

by Molly Ball (Holt, ISBN: 9781250252869); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 3 "An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history."

by Stephanie Danler (Knopf, ISBN: 9781101875964); Weeks on List: 1 "By the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past."

by Robert Kolker (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385543767); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 7 "The heartrending story of a mid-century American family with twelve children--six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia--that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease."

by Bill Buford (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307271013); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 3 "Buford's hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive account of his adventures in the world of French haute cuisine."