National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for March 23, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending March 20, 2016
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $25.00, 9780812988406
This profoundly moving and exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis is a January 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/10
2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 9781607747307
Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.		 2/71
3. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $24.00, 9780812993547
Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis in this bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history. A September 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/36
4. The Immortal Irishman
Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin, $28.00, 9780544272880
National Book Award-winner Egan tells the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishmen in 19th-century America, Thomas Meagher.		 6/3
5. The Road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385539289
Bryson's loving and hilarious valentine to his adopted country, Great Britain.		 4/9
6. Dark Money
Jane Mayer, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385535595
Mayer examines a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views and a systematic plan to fundamentally alter the American political system.		 5/9
7. Spark Joy
Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $18.99, 9781607749721
The latest by decluttering guru Marie Kondo, bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.		 7/11
8. Being Mortal
Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $26.00, 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.		 8/72
9. Originals
Adam Grant, Viking, $27.00, 9780525429562
Grant examines how people can champion new ideas--and how leaders can encourage originality in their organizations.		 10/7
10. In Other Words
Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101875551
Pulitzer Prize-winner Lahiri's nonfiction debut is a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.		 11/6
11. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli, Riverhead, $18.00, 9780399184413
Rovelli's book revealing all the beauty of modern physics in seven short and enlightening lessons is a March 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/3
12. Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg, Random House, $28.00, 9780812993394
Duhigg explores the science of productivity and why managing how you think--rather than what you think--can transform your life.		 14/2
13. Gratitude
Oliver Sacks, Knopf, $17.00, 9780451492937
Four essays written by Sacks during the last few months of his life form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life.		 15/17
14. Notorious RBG
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik, Dey Street, $19.99, 9780062415837
A visually rich, intimate, and unprecedented look at the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.		 /19
15. Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari, Penguin Press, $28.95, 9781594206276
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance by one of this generation's sharpest comedic voices.		 12/33

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