The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2012

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This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-fiction Best Seller list in 2012, in the Hardcover Nonfiction category. [1]

Non-fiction or nonfiction is content whose creator, in good faith, assumes responsibility for the truth or accuracy of the events, people, or information presented. In contrast, a story whose creator explicitly leaves open if and how the work refers to reality is usually classified as fiction. Nonfiction, which may be presented either objectively or subjectively, is traditionally one of the two main divisions of narratives, the other traditional division being fiction, which contrasts with nonfiction by dealing in information, events, and characters expected to be partly or largely imaginary.

DateBookAuthorPublisher
January 1 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster
January 8
January 15
January 22
January 29 American Sniper Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice Morrow/HarperCollins
February 5 Ameritopia Mark Levin Threshold Editions
February 12
February 19 American Sniper Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice Morrow/HarperCollins
February 26 Ameritopia Mark Levin Threshold Editions
March 4 American Sniper Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice Morrow/HarperCollins
March 11
March 18
March 25
April 1
April 8 Imagine Jonah Lehrer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
April 15 Drift Rachel Maddow Crown
April 22
April 29
May 6
May 13
May 20 The Passage of Power Robert Caro Knopf
May 27
June 3 Amateur Edward Klein Regnery
June 10
June 17
June 24
July 1
July 8
July 15 Wild Cheryl Strayed Knopf
July 22
July 29
August 5
August 12
August 19
August 26
September 2 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Random House
September 9 Paterno Joe Posnanski Simon & Schuster
September 16 Obama's America Dinesh D'Souza Regnery
September 23 No Easy Day Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer Dutton
September 30
October 7
October 14
October 21 Killing Kennedy Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Holt
October 28
November 4
November 11
November 18
November 25
December 2
December 9 Thomas Jefferson Jon Meacham Random House
December 16 Killing Kennedy Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Holt
December 23
December 30

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References

  1. "Hardcover Nonfiction". NYTimes.com. Retrieved July 7, 2015.