| 2009 | Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits | Linda Gordon | Biography | 22 | 2 | 3 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2024 | Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir | Tessa Hulls | Memoir & Autobiography | 22 | 2 | 5 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Macmillan |
| 1996 | Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II | Janet Browne | Biography | 18 | 3 | 3 | Unknown | Jonathan Cape |
| 2009 | Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea | Barbara Demick | Society & Culture | 18 | 1 | 3 | Spiegel & Grau | Penguin Random House |
| 2025 | One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This | Omar El Akkad | Politics & Government | 18 | 1 | 4 | Knopf | Penguin Random House |
| 2008 | The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century | Steve Coll | Biography | 16 | 1 | 4 | Penguin Books | Penguin Random House |
| 2016 | Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets | Svetlana Alexievich | History | 14 | 1 | 2 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2006 | The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million | Daniel Mendelsohn | Memoir & Autobiography | 14 | 1 | 2 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 2023 | Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne | Katherine Rundell | Biography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Picador | Macmillan |
| 2021 | How to End a Story: Collected Diaries | Helen Garner | Memoir & Autobiography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Text Publishing | Text Publishing |
| 2021 | One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time | Craig Brown | Biography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Fourth Estate | HarperCollins |
| 2018 | Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous | Christopher Bonanos | Biography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Henry Holt and Company | Macmillan |
| 2017 | Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China | Xiaolu Guo | Memoir & Autobiography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Grove Atlantic | Grove Atlantic |
| 2001 | Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper | Nicholson Baker | Society & Culture | 10 | 1 | 1 | Vintage Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1979 | Julia Child and More Company | Julia Child | Society & Culture | 10 | 1 | 1 | Ballantine Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1959 | The Oysters of Locmariaquer | Eleanor Clark | Travel & Place | 10 | 1 | 1 | Ecco | HarperCollins |
| 2005 | Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster | Svetlana Alexievich | Journalism & Reportage | 10 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1989 | Among Schoolchildren | Tracy Kidder | Society & Culture | 8 | 1 | 2 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 2004 | Blue Blood | Edward Conlon | Memoir & Autobiography | 8 | 0 | 2 | Ebury Publishing | Penguin Random House |
| 2013 | The Faraway Nearby | Rebecca Solnit | Memoir & Autobiography | 8 | 0 | 3 | Viking | Penguin Random House |
| 2019 | On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons | Laura Cumming | Memoir & Autobiography | 6 | 0 | 2 | Chatto & Windus | Penguin Random House |
| 2012 | All We Know: Three Lives | Lisa Cohen | Biography | 6 | 0 | 2 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Macmillan |
| 2022 | A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast | Dorthe Nors | Memoir & Autobiography | 6 | 0 | 2 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2025 | TThe Many Lives of Anne Frank | Ruth Franklin | Biography | 6 | 0 | 2 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2022 | The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness | Meghan O’Rourke | Medicine & Public Health | 6 | 0 | 2 | Riverhead Books | Penguin Random House |
| 2020 | The Dragons, The Giant, The Women | Wayétu Moore | Memoir & Autobiography | 6 | 0 | 2 | Graywolf Press | Graywolf Press |
| 2015 | Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator | Oleg V. Khlevniuk | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2008 | AA Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families | Michael Holroyd | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Chatto & Windus | Penguin Random House |
| 1930 | LLives Of A Bengal Lancer | Francis Yeats Brown | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2024 | Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below | Jane Kamensky | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2023 | Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World | Naomi Klein | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2018 | Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations | Mira Jacob | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | One World | Penguin Random House |
| 2018 | Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History | Yunte Huang | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2017 | Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492–1900 | Simon Schama | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2017 | Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History | Camille Dungy | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2013 | The Book of My Lives | Aleksandar Hemon | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Picador | Macmillan |
| 2013 | The Distance Between Us | Reyna Grande | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2010 | Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends | Tom Segev | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Doubleday | Penguin Random House |
| 2007 | Boone: A Biography | Robert Morgan | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2007 | The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 | Joyce Carol Oates | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Ecco | HarperCollins |
| 2005 | Chronicles: Vol. 1 | Bob Dylan | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2003 | The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home | George Howe Colt | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1998 | Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story | Amanda Vaill | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1997 | In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country | Kim Barnes | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Anchor | Penguin Random House |
| 1993 | The Last Panda | George B. Schaller | Nature & Environment | 4 | 0 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 1990 | Road Song: A Memoir | Natalie Kusz | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Macmillan |
| 1988 | Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir | Paul Monette | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1988 | Europeans | Jane Kramer | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Macmillan |
| 1985 | Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans | Alan Riding | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Vintage Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1982 | Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood | Kate Simon | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Harper & Row | HarperCollins |
| 1981 | Forms of Talk | Erving Goffman | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | University of Pennsylvania Press | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 1979 | I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can | Barbara Gordon | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Penguin Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1974 | The Curve of Binding Energy | John McPhee | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1973 | LLesser Lives | Diane Johnson | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1973 | The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-Cultures in America | Laurence Veysey | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1971 | Sorties | James Dickey | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Doubleday | Penguin Random House |
| 2019 | Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child | Laura Cumming | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Scribner | Simon & Schuster |
| 1982 | Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation | Landon Jones | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Ballantine Books | Penguin Random House |
| 2001 | MMilking the Moon: A Southerner’s Story of Life on This Planet | Katherine Clark | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2001 | PPositively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina | David Hajdu | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1998 | RRocket Boys: A Memoir | Homer H. Hickman Jr. | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1974 | Sixties Going on Seventies (Perspectives on the Sixties) | Nora Sayre | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Rutgers University Press | Rutgers University Press |
| 2008 | TThe House on Sugar Beach | Helene Cooper | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1988 | TThe Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 | Paul Jay | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1987 | Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle | Stephen Jay Gould | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1980 | Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years from the Experiences of the Sage Program | Gay Gaer Luce | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Delacorte Press | Penguin Random House |
| 2024 | TThe Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon | Adam Shatz | Biography | 4 | 0 | 2 | Macmillan | Macmillan |
| 2014 | The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandria | Helen Rappaport | Biography | 2 | 0 | 1 | St. Martin's Press | Macmillan |