Paperback Nonfiction

by bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780060938291); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 6 "Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with Communion: The Female Search for Love."

by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, ISBN: 9781571313560); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: * "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 Erik Larson (Crown, ISBN: 9780385348768); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 16 "Larson brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War--a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two."

by Chloe Dalton (Vintage, ISBN: 9780593689004); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 18 "A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare."

by Cory Doctorow (MCD, ISBN: 9780374621568); Weeks on List: 1

by Michael Finkel (Vintage, ISBN: 9781984898456); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: * "This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost."

by bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780060959470); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: * "All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering."

by Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN: 9781324130734); Last week: 12; Weeks on List: 3 "Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law."

by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth, ISBN: 9781586424367); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 4 "Revisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance movements of American history to get a bold new understanding of how resistance shaped our past—and how its principles can change our future."

by Caroline Fraser (Penguin Books, ISBN: 9780593657249); Last week: 10; 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."