Paperback Nonfiction

by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books, ISBN: 9780593854297); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 2 "The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits. A July 2025 Indie Next Pick."

by bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780060938291); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 9 "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 bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780060959470); Last week: 7; 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 Michael Finkel (Vintage, ISBN: 9781984898456); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: * "This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost."

by Chloe Dalton (Vintage, ISBN: 9780593689004); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 21 "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); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 4 "A short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification."

by David Grann (Vintage, ISBN: 9780307742490); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: * "The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by David Grann, one of our greatest nonfiction writers."

by Erik Larson (Crown, ISBN: 9780385348768); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 19 "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 Timothy Snyder (Crown, ISBN: 9780804190114); Last week: 9; 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."