The Top 40 Nonfiction Books of 2025

As determined by the Top of the Stacks Algorithm

Self-Help
History & Biography
Memoir
Health & Science
Politics & Society
Essays & Culture
# Title Author Published
1 The Let Them Theory 🛒📚 Mel Robbins December 2024
2 The Body Keeps The Score 🛒📚 Bessel van der Kolk September 2014
3 The Anxious Generation 🛒📚 Jonathan Haidt March 2024
4 Atomic Habits 🛒📚 James Clear October 2018
5 On Tyranny 🛒📚 Timothy Snyder February 2017
6 Abundance 🛒📚 Derek Thompson March 2025
7 Everything Is Tuberculosis 🛒📚 John Green March 2025
8 Braiding Sweetgrass 🛒📚 Robin Wall Kimmerer January 2013
9 The Serviceberry 🛒📚 Robin Wall Kimmerer November 2024
10 The Wager 🛒📚 David Grann April 2023
11 1929 🛒📚 Andrew Ross Sorkin October 2025
12 The Backyard Bird Chronicles 🛒📚 Amy Tan April 2024
13 Don't Believe Everything You Think 🛒📚 Joseph Nguyen March 2022
14 107 Days 🛒📚 Kamala Harris September 2025
15 The Psychology of Money 🛒📚 Morgan Housel September 2020
16 Mark Twain 🛒📚 Ron Chernow May 2025
17 Nobody's Girl 🛒📚 Virginia Roberts Giuffre October 2025
18 All About Love 🛒📚 bell hooks January 1999
19 How To Test Negative For Stupid 🛒📚 John Kennedy October 2025
20 The Art Thief 🛒📚 Michael Finkel June 2023
21 Outlive 🛒📚 Peter Attia & Bill Gifford March 2023
22 Careless People 🛒📚 Sarah Wynn-Williams March 2025
23 The 48 Laws of Power 🛒📚 Robert Greene September 1998
24 Poems & Prayers 🛒📚 Matthew McConaughey September 2025
25 Greenlights 🛒📚 Matthew McConaughey October 2020
26 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 🛒📚 Omar El Akkad February 2025
27 Forgotten Home Apothecary 🛒📚 Dr. Nicole Apelian January 2024
28 The House of My Mother 🛒📚 Shari Franke January 2025
29 The Daily Stoic 🛒📚 Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman October 2016
30 The Look 🛒📚 Michelle Obama November 2025
31 The Gales Of November 🛒📚 John U Bacon October 2025
32 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck 🛒📚 Mark Manson September 2016
33 The Book Of Alchemy 🛒📚 Suleika Jaouad April 2025
34 The Hundred Years' War On Palestine 🛒📚 Rashid Khalidi January 2020
35 Revenge of the Tipping Point 🛒📚 Malcolm Gladwell October 2024
36 The Idaho Four 🛒📚 James Patterson July 2025
37 We Can Do Hard Things 🛒📚 Amanda Doyle May 2025
38 The Artist's Way 🛒📚 Julia Cameron January 1992
39 The Creative Act 🛒📚 Rick Rubin January 2023
40 A People's History of the United States 🛒📚 Howard Zinn January 1980

Author Fast Facts

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Women
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Men