National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for February 19, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending February 15, 2015
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
Brown tells the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.		 1/38
2. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101873441
Strayed's powerfully honest memoir of loss and recovery is now a major motion picture.		 2/98
3. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $16, 9780812987119
An unforgettable true story that is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. Now a major motion picture.		 3/15
4. American Sniper
Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Morrow, $15.99, 9780062376336
Kyle's unforgettable account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences is now a major motion picture.		 4/12
5. How to Love
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781937006884
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh brings his signature clarity, compassion, and humor to the thorny question of how to love.		 7/4
6. The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert, Picador USA, $16, 9781250062185
Kolbert's fascinating book about the future of the world blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.		 5/6
7. 10% Happier
Dan Harris, Dey Street, $15.99, 9780062265432
Nightline anchor Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.		 6/7
8. The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg, Random House, $16, 9780812981605
An exploration into the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.		 9/57
9. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761
The award-winning author of Americanah offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.		 12/2
10. Brain on Fire
Susannah Cahalan, S&S, $16, 9781451621389
Cahalan's astonishing true story of her inexplicable descent into madness and the brilliant, lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen.		 8/61
11. The Heart of Everything That Is
Bob Drury, Tom Clavin, S&S, $17, 9781451654684
An astonishing biography of the great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud.		 10/24
12. Alan Turing: The Enigma
Andrew Hodges, Princeton University Press, $16.95, 9780691164724
This acclaimed biography of the founder of computer science inspired the film The Imitation Game.		 14/5
13. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $17, 9780316154703
A collection of hilarious and thought-provoking essays by the bestselling author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames.		 11/37
14. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't- Debut
Nate Silver, Penguin, $17, 9780143125082
Silver examines the world of prediction and how everything from the health of the global economy to the ability to fight terrorism are dependent on the quality of predictions.		 /1
15. My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind- Debut
Scott Stossel, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307390608
A revelatory and moving account of Stossel's struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition.		 /1
ON THE RISE
19. Astoria
Peter Stark, Ecco, $15.99, 9780062218308
The thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now-forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast.		  

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