Paperback Nonfiction

by Patrick Radden Keefe (Anchor, ISBN: 9780307279286); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 5 "Award-winning New Yorker staff writer Keefe presents a stunning and intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions."

by Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Perennial, ISBN: 9780062316110); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: * "A groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be human."

by Hope Jahren (Vintage, ISBN: 9780525563389); Last week: 14; Weeks on List: 2 "Award-winning scientist Jahren explains the current and projected consequences of global warming and the actions that we all can take to fight back."

by Harvard Business Review (Harvard Business Review Press, ISBN: 9781633694361); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: * "Ten articles from the Harvard Business Review to help you build your emotional strength and resilience--and to achieve high performance."

by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, ISBN: 9781571313560); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 16 "Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices."

by Trevor Noah (Spiegel & Grau, ISBN: 9780399588198); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: * "Noah's compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime coming-of-age memoir is set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed."

by Sonia Purnell (Penguin, ISBN: 9780735225312); Weeks on List: 1 "A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II."

by Bryan Stevenson (Spiegel & Grau, ISBN: 9780593133934); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 16 "A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice. Now a major motion picture."

by David Sedaris (Back Bay, ISBN: 9780316392426); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 42 "Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best."

by Susan Orlean (S&S, ISBN: 9781476740195); Weeks on List: 18 "Orlean's book is a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution--and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries."