The New York Times Best Sellers - September 14, 2025 (Nonfiction)

The NYT Best Sellers - 14 September 2025 (Nonfiction)


01. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk

02. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt

03. BREAKNECK by Dan Wang

04. THE IDAHO FOUR by James Patterson

05. ON POWER by Mark R. Levin

06. FRAMED by John Grisham

07. EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS by John Green

08. BLACK AF HISTORY by Michael Harriot

09. THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED by John Bolton

10. ABUNDANCE by Ezra Klein

11. ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder

12. BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah

13. OUTLIVE by Peter Attia

14. THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls

15. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer


New this week:


Drawing on seven years in Beijing and Shanghai, Wang opens with a 2021 bicycle trek across poor, mountainous Guizhou province, where he found infrastructure superior to that of far wealthier California and New York. He contrasts China’s physical ambition with the heavy social costs of top-down experimentation, from the One-Child Policy to the draconian zero-Covid lockdowns. Wang also dissects the U.S.–China tech rivalry, contending that each superpower can learn from the other: America needs renewed engineering audacity, while China must embrace individual liberties to temper its grand projects. The result is a provocative new framework for seeing both nations—and the future they are racing to build.