The NYT Best Sellers - 22 February 2026 (Nonfiction)

The NYT Best Sellers - 22 February 2026 (Nonfiction)

01. THE INVISIBLE COUP by Peter Schweizer
02. NOBODY'S GIRL by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
03. RAGE AND THE REPUBLIC by Jonathan Turley
04. STRANGERS by Belle Burden
05. HOW TO TEST NEGATIVE FOR STUPID by John Kennedy
06. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk
07. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
08. WORK IN PROGRESS by James Martin
09. LA LUCCI by Susan Lucci
10. BLACK AF HISTORY by Michael Harriot
11. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt
12. FOOTBALL by Chuck Klosterman
13. I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy
14. ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder
15. LITURGIES OF THE WILD by Martin Shaw

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03. RAGE AND THE REPUBLIC by Jonathan Turley
Turley uses the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence to argue that the American Revolution produced a uniquely stable republic compared with other upheavals, especially the French Revolution, which descended into the Terror. He threads the lives of Thomas Paine and James Madison through the narrative to show how ideas about rights, representation, and limits on popular passion shaped a system meant to avoid both mob rule and authoritarianism.

08. WORK IN PROGRESS by James Martin
Martin looks back on his long string of secular jobs—busboy, dishwasher, caddy, lawn‑care worker, movie‑theater usher, factory hand, bank teller, and young corporate employee—and shows how each humiliating or hilarious experience quietly “formed” him and prepared him for the Jesuit priesthood. The book reads as a series of vivid episodes of growing up in the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1960s–80s—restaurant kitchens, golf courses, factories, office cubicles—framed by Ignatian spirituality and the question “Who am I, really?”

09. LA LUCCI by Susan Lucci
The memoir is a follow‑up to Lucci’s 2011 book All My Life, expanding from her four‑decade run as Erica Kane on All My Children into a more intimate account of love, loss, and reinvention after the death of her husband, producer Helmut Huber, in 2022. She writes about their 52‑year marriage, her struggle with grief and feeling that her “light” went out, and the everyday rituals that helped her move forward, alongside behind‑the‑scenes stories from daytime TV, Broadway, and later projects. Throughout, she frames gratitude, hope, and the choice to “get up off the floor and find your light again” as the core lessons she wants to pass on to readers and longtime fans.

15. LITURGIES OF THE WILD by Martin Shaw
The book retells and reflects on old tales and visionary experiences, including Shaw’s own 101‑night vigil alone on Dartmoor, which gradually led him toward Christian faith and to seeing Christ as the “True Myth” that fulfills and gathers all stories. It blends wild landscape writing, poetic theology, and practical counsel, encouraging readers to reclaim story, liturgy, and beauty as ways to resist “the machine” of modern life and to grow into genuinely adult, rooted human beings.