The latest top selling paperback nonfiction books from Indie Bound
February 9th, 2025
by Timothy Snyder (Crown, ISBN: 9780804190114);
Last week: 1;
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"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 Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, ISBN: 9781571313560);
Last week: 3;
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"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 Amy Tan (Knopf, ISBN: 9780593536131);
Last week: 2;
Weeks on List: 38
"A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club."
by bell hooks (Morrow, ISBN: 9780060959470);
Last week: 5;
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"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: 32
"This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost."
by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143127741);
Last week: 10;
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"van der Kolk transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing."
by Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage, ISBN: 9780307279286);
Last week: 6;
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"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 Rashid Khalidi (Metropolitan Books, ISBN: 9781250787651);
Last week: 9;
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"A history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history."
by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ISBN: 9781984880826);
Last week: 7;
Weeks on List: 2
"An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate."
by Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin, ISBN: 9780593652985);
Last week: 11;
Weeks on List: 14
"A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era's most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author."