When we launched The Experiment in early 2009, we explained our name with this thought: Because every book is a test of new ideas.
Since then, we’ve been excited to see how the new ideas in our books have caught on. Most notably, Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health became our first #1 New York Times bestseller! Its sequel, Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook, is also a New York Times bestseller, and has more than 675,000 copies in print. Both tie-ins to the 2011 feature documentary also called Forks Over Knives, these two books are helping to inspire and guide hundreds of thousands of people as they seek out the many benefits of eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet. Forks Over Knives has even been the subject of a question on the television show Jeopardy!
Many other books we’ve published have also garnered major national attention, accolades, and bestseller status:
- Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived is one of five National Book Critics Circle Award finalists for nonfiction, for 2017.
- In 2019, The University of Maryland selected Demagoguery and Democracy by Patricia Roberts-Miller as their First Year Book for students.
- Jennifer Teege, coauthor of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, was featured in People magazine, and her book is a New York Times bestseller. In 2017 the University of Houston—Downtown selected the book as its Freshman Conversation book.
- Tristan Gooley’s How to Read Water is a New York Times bestseller.
- More than 900,000 copies are in print of Emma Farrarons The Mindfulness Coloring Book and its sequels.
- The New York Times has featured or reviewed many of our books, including Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (here) and Humanimal (here), the My Big Wimmelbook series (here), Anna Borges’s The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care (here), iina’s Sushi Modoki (here), Ian Brown’s Sixty (here), Lucy Hone’s Resilient Grieving (here), and Ken Mogi’s Awakening Your Ikigai (here), Laura Jean Baker’s The Motherhood Affidavits (here), Carol Clements’ Better Balance for Life (here), and Nadine Horn and Jörg Mayer’s VBQ (here).
- The Wall Street Journal has also reviewed many of our books, including the My Big Wimmelbook series (here), Ian Wright’s Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds (here), Tristan Gooley’s The Nature Instinct (here), Daniel Hume’s Fire Making (here), Peter Hellman’s In Vino Duplicitas (here); Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (here); Ian Brown’s Sixty (here); Tristan Gooley’s The Natural Navigator: The Rediscovered Art of Letting Nature Be Your Guide (here), The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs (here), How to Read Water (here), How to Read Nature (here); and Peter Popham’s The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi (here).
- Jessica Wapner’s The Philadelphia Chromosome was named by The Wall Street Journal as one of its 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2013.
- Twisting Fate author Pamela Munster wrote a Saturday Essay for The Wall Street Journal on her father’s battle with cancer (here).
- The Blink of an Eye author Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard was interviewed for O, the Oprah Magazine on her near-fatal illness and journey back to health.
- NPR has featured a number of our authors on its weekly programs, including author Bill Turnbull to discuss Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper (here), and Adam Rutherford to discuss Humanimal (here).
- The TODAY Show has featured both Tristan Gooley and Tal Ben-Shahar (here) on the program to discuss their books.
- Cooking Light magazine named Vedge its #1 Cookbook of the Year for 2013. Vedge was also named one of the top 10 cookbooks of 2013 by Entertainment Weekly, one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by Yoga Journal, one of the Oregonian’s five best vegan cookbooks, and by the Washington Post as a top vegetarian cookbook of the year.
- VegNews named The Taco Cleanse its Cookbook of the Year for 2016.
- KPBX, Spokane’s NPR station, broadcast Eileen Garvin’s How to Be a Sister: A Love Story with a Twist of Autism, read by the author in its entirety, over the course of one month.
We look for books that present highly proprietary information or a singular perspective, are exceptionally useful, although sometimes in nonstandard ways, and/or address an urgent need on the part of readers—with regard to health, well-being, or simple curiosity. And that are immaculately written and distinctively voiced.
We’ve published more than four hundred and fifty books since the fall of 2009, when our first books began to make their way out into the world, and more than half of those books have been reprinted at least once.
We hope that you will want to read, sell, buy, review, feature, blog about, cook from, give as a gift, license, translate, or otherwise enjoy our books!