The NYT Best Sellers - 14 September 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.