The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2017
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 2017, in the Combined Print & E-books Non-Fiction category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls with seven weeks at the top of the list.
Date | Book | Author | Publisher |
January 1 | Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt |
January 8 | Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt |
January 15 | The Princess Diarist | Carrie Fisher | Blue Rider Press |
January 22 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
January 29 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
February 5 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
February 12 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
February 19 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
February 26 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
March 5 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
March 12 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
March 19 | Portraits of Courage | George W. Bush | Crown |
March 26 | Portraits of Courage | George W. Bush | Crown |
April 2 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
April 9 | The Zookeeper's Wife | Diane Ackerman | Norton |
April 16 | Old School: Life in the Sane Lane | Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein | Holt |
April 23 | Old School: Life in the Sane Lane | Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein | Holt |
April 30 | Old School: Life in the Sane Lane | Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein | Holt |
May 7 | Shattered | Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes | Crown |
May 14 | Option B | Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant | Knopf |
May 21 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Norton |
May 28 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Norton |
June 4 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Norton |
June 11 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Norton |
June 18 | Al Franken, Giant of the Senate | Al Franken | Twelve |
June 25 | I Can't Make This Up | Kevin Hart and Neil Strauss | 37 INK |
July 2 | Understanding Trump | Newt Gingrich | Center Street |
July 9 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
July 16 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
July 23 | Rediscovering Americanism | Mark Levin | Simon & Schuster |
July 30 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
August 6 | Devil's Bargain | Joshua Green | Penguin Press |
August 13 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
August 20 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
August 27 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
September 3 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
September 10 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
September 17 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
September 24 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
October 1 | What Happened | Hillary Clinton | Simon & Schuster |
October 8 | What Happened | Hillary Clinton | Simon & Schuster |
October 15 | Killing England | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt |
October 22 | Killing England | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt |
October 29 | Grant | Ron Chernow | Penguin Press |
November 5 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
November 12 | Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush | Grand Central | |
November 19 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
November 26 | Obama: An Intimate Portrait | Pete Souza | Little, Brown |
December 3 | Promise Me, Dad | Joe Biden | Flatiron Books |
December 10 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
December 17 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
December 24 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
December 31 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |