The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2018


This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 2018, in the Combined Print & E-books Non-Fiction category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff with seven weeks at the top of the list followed by Becoming by Michelle Obama with five weeks at the top of the list; this book continued to be a best seller in 2019.
DateBookAuthorPublisher
January 7GrantRon ChernowPenguin Press
January 14Astrophysics for People in a HurryNeil deGrasse TysonNorton
January 21Fire and FuryMichael WolffHolt
January 28Fire and FuryMichael WolffHolt
February 4Fire and FuryMichael WolffHolt
February 11Fire and FuryMichael WolffHolt
February 18Fire and FuryMichael WolffHolt
February 25Fire and FuryMichael WolffHolt
March 4Fire and FuryMichael WolffHolt
March 11EducatedTara WestoverRandom House
March 18I'll Be Gone in the DarkMichelle McNamaraHarper
March 25I'll Be Gone in the DarkMichelle McNamaraHarper
April 1'Michael Isikoff and David CornTwelve
April 8Secret EmpiresPeter SchweizerHarper
April 15This Is MeChrissy MetzDey St.
April 22Killers of the Flower MoonDavid GrannDoubleday
April 29'Madeleine Albright and Bill WoodwardHarper
May 6A Higher LoyaltyJames ComeyFlatiron
May 13A Higher LoyaltyJames ComeyFlatiron
May 27The Soul of AmericaJon MeachamRandom House
June 3How to Change Your MindMichael PollanPenguin Press
June 10The Restless WaveJohn McCain and Mark SalterSimon & Schuster
June 17CalypsoDavid SedarisLittle, Brown
June 24Kitchen ConfidentialAnthony BourdainEcco
July 1Kitchen ConfidentialAnthony BourdainEcco
July 8Kitchen ConfidentialAnthony BourdainEcco
July 15Kitchen ConfidentialAnthony BourdainEcco
July 22'Charles KrauthammerCrown Forum
July 29EducatedTara WestoverRandom House
August 5Liars, Leakers and LiberalsJeanine PirroCenter Street
August 12The Russia HoaxGregg JarrettBroadside
August 19The Russia HoaxGregg JarrettBroadside
August 26Everything Trump Touches DiesRick WilsonFree Press
September 2UnhingedOmarosa Manigault NewmanGallery
September 9EducatedTara WestoverRandom House
September 16The Restless WaveJohn McCain and Mark SalterSimon & Schuster
September 23'Yuval Noah HarariHarper
September 30'Bob WoodwardSimon & Schuster
October 7'Bob WoodwardSimon & Schuster
October 14Bob WoodwardSimon & Schuster
October 21Ship of FoolsTucker CarlsonFree Press
October 28Killing the SSBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardHolt
November 4Killing the SSBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardHolt
November 11Killing the SSBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardHolt
November 18Beastie Boys BookMichael Diamond and Adam HorovitzSpiegel & Grau
November 25Killing the SSBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardHolt
December 2BecomingMichelle ObamaCrown
December 9BecomingMichelle ObamaCrown
December 16BecomingMichelle ObamaCrown
December 23BecomingMichelle ObamaCrown
December 30BecomingMichelle ObamaCrown