NYT Best Sellers of May 2025 (NEW NON-FICTION)

1.
We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions 4.05 avg rating — 2,042 ratings
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Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass—How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass—How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up 4.24 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
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Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind 3.82 avg rating — 12,233 ratings
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Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World
Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World 4.67 avg rating — 990 ratings
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I Regret Almost Everything
I Regret Almost Everything 3.86 avg rating — 2,466 ratings
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Karen: A Brother Remembers
Karen: A Brother Remembers 3.16 avg rating — 721 ratings
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The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness 4.40 avg rating — 366 ratings
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The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Everyday Luxury and Elevated Entertaining
The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Everyday Luxury and Elevated Entertaining 4.46 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Art of Winning: Lessons from a Life in Football
The Art of Winning: Lessons from a Life in Football 3.94 avg rating — 565 ratings
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The Israel Decree: Understanding God's Unbreakable Covenant with His People and Their Land
The Israel Decree: Understanding God's Unbreakable Covenant with His People and Their Land 4.65 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity
Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity 3.56 avg rating — 408 ratings
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I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living
I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living 4.57 avg rating — 1,930 ratings
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Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers
Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers 4.24 avg rating — 149 ratings
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An Immense World (Young Readers Edition): How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets
An Immense World (Young Readers Edition): How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets
by: Ed Yong
4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain 4.22 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
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Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes 4.17 avg rating — 932 ratings
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Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight
Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight 3.90 avg rating — 173 ratings
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When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You To Know
When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You To Know 4.73 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet 4.44 avg rating — 115 ratings
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No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain 4.26 avg rating — 303 ratings
21.
The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour
The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour 4.08 avg rating — 356 ratings
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Metabolic Freedom: A 30-Day Guide to Restore Your Metabolism, Heal Hormones & Burn Fat
Metabolic Freedom: A 30-Day Guide to Restore Your Metabolism, Heal Hormones & Burn Fat
by: Ben Azadi
4.17 avg rating — 144 ratings
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On Character: Choices That Define a Life
On Character: Choices That Define a Life 4.14 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again 3.76 avg rating — 12,780 ratings
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Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three
Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three 4.54 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
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Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company 4.54 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
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Who Knew
Who Knew 4.36 avg rating — 707 ratings
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Is a River Alive?
Is a River Alive? 4.29 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by: Karen Hao
4.17 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home
Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home 4.26 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us 4.34 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip
Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip 3.98 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin 3.38 avg rating — 72 ratings