The New York Times Best Sellers - July 27, 2025 (Nonfiction)

The NYT Best Sellers - 27 July 2025 (Nonfiction)

01. BUTLER by Salena Zito
02. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk
03. ON HER GAME by Christine Brennan
04. 2024 by Josh Dawsey
05. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt
06. MARK TWAIN by Ron Chernow
07. BEHIND THE BADGE by Johnny Joey Jones
08. A MARRIAGE AT SEA by Sophie Elmhirst
09. ABUNDANCE by Ezra Klein
10. ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder
11. A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by James West Davidson
12. EDUCATED by Tara Westover
13. OUTLIVE by Peter Attia
14. BIG DUMB EYES by Nate Bargatze
15. BLACK AF HISTORY by Michael Harriot

New this week:

Butler is a firsthand narrative by veteran journalist Salena Zito, providing an eyewitness account of the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump at the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Pennsylvania. Positioned just four feet from the stage as shots rang out, Zito documents the chaos, trauma, and immediate aftermath of the event, offering exclusive details drawn from her privileged access to Trump, his advisors, and rallygoers.


On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports is a compelling nonfiction portrait of Caitlin Clark, one of the most electrifying athletes in American sports. Written by acclaimed journalist and USA TODAY columnist Christine Brennan, the book chronicles Clark’s historic rise in college basketball, her explosive entry into the WNBA, and her impact on the perception and popularity of women’s sports in the United States.


2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America is a definitive, deeply reported account of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Written by veteran political journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf, the book draws on more than 300 interviews conducted over 18 months and offers unprecedented access to key players in the Trump, Biden, and Harris campaigns.


A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck is a riveting nonfiction account of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, a British couple who, in the early 1970s, abandoned their conventional lives to seek adventure on the open sea. Their dream of sailing to New Zealand becomes a harrowing ordeal after their boat is sunk by a breaching whale, leaving them adrift in the Pacific Ocean for 117 days.