The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2017
This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 2017, in the Combined Print & E-books Non-Fiction category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls with seven weeks at the top of the list.
| Date | Book | Author | Publisher |
| January 1 | Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt |
| January 8 | Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt |
| January 15 | The Princess Diarist | Carrie Fisher | Blue Rider Press |
| January 22 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
| January 29 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
| February 5 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
| February 12 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
| February 19 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
| February 26 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
| March 5 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
| March 12 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly | Morrow/HarperCollins |
| March 19 | Portraits of Courage | George W. Bush | Crown |
| March 26 | Portraits of Courage | George W. Bush | Crown |
| April 2 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
| April 9 | The Zookeeper's Wife | Diane Ackerman | Norton |
| April 16 | Old School: Life in the Sane Lane | Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein | Holt |
| April 23 | Old School: Life in the Sane Lane | Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein | Holt |
| April 30 | Old School: Life in the Sane Lane | Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein | Holt |
| May 7 | Shattered | Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes | Crown |
| May 14 | Option B | Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant | Knopf |
| May 21 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Norton |
| May 28 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Norton |
| June 4 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Norton |
| June 11 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Norton |
| June 18 | Al Franken, Giant of the Senate | Al Franken | Twelve |
| June 25 | I Can't Make This Up | Kevin Hart and Neil Strauss | 37 INK |
| July 2 | Understanding Trump | Newt Gingrich | Center Street |
| July 9 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
| July 16 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
| July 23 | Rediscovering Americanism | Mark Levin | Simon & Schuster |
| July 30 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins |
| August 6 | Devil's Bargain | Joshua Green | Penguin Press |
| August 13 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
| August 20 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
| August 27 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
| September 3 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
| September 10 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
| September 17 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
| September 24 | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Scribner |
| October 1 | What Happened | Hillary Clinton | Simon & Schuster |
| October 8 | What Happened | Hillary Clinton | Simon & Schuster |
| October 15 | Killing England | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt |
| October 22 | Killing England | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt |
| October 29 | Grant | Ron Chernow | Penguin Press |
| November 5 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
| November 12 | Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush | Grand Central | |
| November 19 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
| November 26 | Obama: An Intimate Portrait | Pete Souza | Little, Brown |
| December 3 | Promise Me, Dad | Joe Biden | Flatiron Books |
| December 10 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
| December 17 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
| December 24 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |
| December 31 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster |