This week’s non-fiction bestsellers, with what they actually teach

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New York Times Best Sellers list of September 6, 2026 · updated September 2, 2026

REGIME CHANGE

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

9 weeks on list

THIS IS ME

Hayden Panettiere

2 weeks on list

THE NERD REICH

Gil Durán

1 week on list

THE DAY AFTER

Brian Tyler Cohen

4 weeks on list

STRANGERS

Belle Burden

32 weeks on list

THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE

Bessel van der Kolk

309 weeks on list

NO PROPHETS

Jared Huffman

1 week on list

BIOLOGICAL WAR

Annie Jacobsen

4 weeks on list

LONDON FALLING

Patrick Radden Keefe

20 weeks on list

ALL ABOUT LOVE

bell hooks

66 weeks on list

DOGS, BOYS, AND OTHER THINGS I'VE CRIED ABOUT

Isabel Klee

11 weeks on list

#10

THE ANXIOUS GENERATION

Jonathan Haidt

120 weeks on list

#11

REVOLUTION

Eric Metaxas

11 weeks on list

#11

BORN A CRIME

Trevor Noah

103 weeks on list

#12

THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE

David Sedaris

13 weeks on list

#13

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR

Paul Kalanithi

83 weeks on list

#13

THE GLASS CASTLE

Jeannette Walls

67 weeks on list

#14

COMMUNION

JD Vance

10 weeks on list

#14

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS

Robin Wall Kimmerer

104 weeks on list

#15

BEYOND DARWIN

Bruce H. Lipton with Patricia King

1 week on list