The New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers of 2012

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.

Date	Book	Author	Publisher
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

See also

• The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2012