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Bestseller List for November 6, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending November 2, 2014
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Hardcover Nonfiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. |
Yes Please- Debut Amy Poehler, Dey Street, $28.99, 9780062268341 A hilarious and candid book by the popular Saturday Night Live alumna and star of Parks and Recreation. |
/1 |
2. |
Not That Kind of Girl Lena Dunham, Random House, $28, 9780812994995 A hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays by the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls. |
1/5 |
3. |
Killing Patton Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30, 9780805096682 Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of WWII and recounts the events surrounding the death of General George S. Patton. |
2/6 |
4. |
Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook- Debut Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780307464880 In her new cookbook, the Barefoot Contessa answers the number one question she receives from cooks: Can I make it ahead? |
/1 |
5. |
Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $26, 9780805095159 Practicing surgeon Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. |
3/4 |
6. |
The Innovators Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781476708690 Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet looks at the history of the digital revolution and is an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. |
4/4 |
7. |
The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones- Debut George R.R. Martin, et al., Bantam, $50, 9780553805444 This lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive history of the world created by Martin in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. |
/1 |
8. |
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book Diane Muldrow, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307977618 A humorous guide to life for grown-ups by a longtime editor of the iconic Little Golden Books. |
6/52 |
9. |
Plenty More Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $35, 9781607746218 The follow-up to London chef Ottolenghi's bestselling and award-winning cookbook Plenty. |
5/3 |
10. |
What If? Randall Munroe, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 9780544272996 From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. |
7/9 |
11. |
The Secret History of Wonder Woman- Debut Jill Lepore, Knopf, $29.95, 9780385354042 Lepore tells the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes and reveals within it a fascinating family story--and a crucial history of 20th-century feminism. |
/1 |
12. |
What I Know for Sure Oprah Winfrey, Flatiron, $24.99, 9781250054050 A collection of O, The Oprah Magazine's widely popular "What I Know for Sure" columns, revised and updated. |
11/9 |
13. |
How Google Works Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Grand Central, $30, 9781455582341 An entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Schmidt and Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company. |
10/6 |
14. |
This Changes Everything Naomi Klein, S&S, $30, 9781451697384 Klein explains why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. |
13/7 |
15. |
The Meaning of Human Existence Edward O. Wilson, Liveright, $23.95, 9780871401007 Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. A finalist for the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction. |
/2 |
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