Paperback Nonfiction

by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, ISBN: 9781571313560); Last week: 1; 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 Chloe Dalton (Vintage, ISBN: 9780593689004); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 13 "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 Erik Larson (Crown, ISBN: 9780385348768); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 11 "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 Michael Finkel (Vintage, ISBN: 9781984898456); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: * "This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost."

by Karen Hao (Penguin Books, ISBN: 9780593657522); Weeks on List: 1 "From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy."

by Yiyun Li (Picador, ISBN: 9781250437976); Weeks on List: 1 "Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James."

by bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780060959470); Last week: 4; 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 Timothy Snyder (Crown, ISBN: 9780804190114); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: * "Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the 20th century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."

by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books, ISBN: 9781771643771); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 3 "One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks. After reading this book, a walk in the woods will never be the same again."

by Kevin Fedarko (Scribner, ISBN: 9781501183065); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 8 "Kevin Fedarko's rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of the Grand Canyon."