Hardcover Nonfiction

by Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins (Hay House LLC, ISBN: 9781401971366); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 28 "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: 16 "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 Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781668023488); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 16 "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 Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner, ISBN: 9781668072240); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 33 "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 Omar El Akkad (Knopf, ISBN: 9780593804148); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 19 "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: 5; Weeks on List: 11 "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 Glennon Doyle, et al. (The Dial Press, ISBN: 9780593977644); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 9 "This guidebook for being alive is a moving exploration of the 20 essential human questions."

by Rick Rubin (Penguin Press, ISBN: 9780593652886); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: * "From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us."

by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press, ISBN: 9780525561729); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 8 "Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain."

by Caroline Fraser (Penguin Press, ISBN: 9780593657225); Last week: 11; Weeks on List: 3 "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond--a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence."