New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers
Week of June 12th (list limited to titles available at the library)
1.
Killing The Mob
The 10th book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series looks at organized crime in the United States during the 20th century.
2.
What Happened To You?
An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.
3.
How The Word Is Passed
A staff writer at The Atlantic explores the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history.
4.
The Bomber Mafia
A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.
5.
Greenlights
The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
7.
The Anthropocene Reviewed
A collection of personal essays that review different facets of the human-centered planet.
8.
The Premonition
Stories of skeptics who went against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid-19. The profiles include a local public-health officer and a group of doctors nicknamed the Wolverines.
9.
Caste
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
10.
Crying In H Mart
The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.
12.
Somebody's Daughter
A memoir about growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration.
13.
Noise
What might cause variability in judgments that should be identical and potential ways to remedy this.
14.
On Juneteenth
The Pulitzer Prize winner weaves together American history with personal memoir to show the importance of events in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.
15.
Think Again
An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.