Rank #5
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Salman Rushdie)
memoir
Rushdie's 2024 memoir of surviving the 2022 stabbing. Direct, urgent, and (despite the subject) often unexpectedly funny.
From Wikipedia
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in April 2024 by Jonathan Cape. The book recounts the stabbing attack on Rushdie in 2022. It hit number one in the Sunday Times Bestsellers List in the General hardbacks category.