August 2020 Nonfiction Bestsellers
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The New Queer Conscience
Adam Eli
Products / Penguin Workshop
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman
Products / Little Brown and Company
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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
Products / Penguin Press
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X Kendi
Products / One World
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Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
Wes Moore, Erica L Green
Products / One World
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Better Angels: You Can Change the World. You Are Not Alone.
Sadie Keller
Products / Gavia Books
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor
Products / Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly
Brad Montague
Products / Avery Publishing Group
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
Products / Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
Valerie Jarrett
Products / Random House Large Print Publishing
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Untitled 1981
Random House
Products / Random House
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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action; A Memoir
David Fajgenbaum
Products / Ballantine Books
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The World: A Brief Introduction
Richard Haass
Products / Penguin Press
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The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Products / One World
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The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team Warrior
Robert O'Neill
Products / Scribner Book Company
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