National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending May 29, 2011

16. On China
Henry Kissinger, Penguin Press, $36, 9781594202711

17. Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Rob Lowe, Holt, $26, 9780805093292

18. The Dukan Diet
Pierre Dukan, Crown Archetype, $26, 9780307887962

19. This Is a Book
Demetri Martin, Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446539708

20. Reckless Endangerment
Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner, Times Books, $30, 9780805091205

21. Lost in Shangri-La
Mitchell Zuckoff, Harper, $26.99, 9780061988349

22. My Father's Daughter
Gwyneth Paltrow, Grand Central, $30, 9780446557313

23. The Best Advice I Ever Got
Katie Couric, Random House, $26, 9780812992779

24. If You Ask Me
Betty White, Putnam, $25.95, 9780399157530

25. Wicked Bugs
Amy Stewart, Algonquin, $18.95, 9781565129603

26. Love Wins
Rob Bell, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062049643

27. It's All about the Bike
Robert Penn, Bloomsbury , $20, 9781608195381

28. The 17 Day Diet
Dr.Mike Moreno, Free Press, $25, 9781451648652

29. Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316001922

30. The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $30, 9781439107959

31. Moonwalking With Einstein
Joshua Foer, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594202292

32. The Heart and the Fist
Eric Greitens, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547424859

33. 1861
Adam Goodheart, Knopf, $28.95, 9781400040155

34. A Band of Misfits
Andrew Baggarly, Triumph, $19.95, 9781600785986

35. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594202841

36. Prescription for Excellence
Joseph Michelli, McGraw-Hill, $28, 9780071773546

37. The Anatomy of Influence
Harold Bloom, Yale University Press, $32.50, 9780300167603

38. The Influencing Machine
Brooke Gladstone, Josh Neufeld (Illus.), Norton, $23.95, 9780393077797

39. The Reading Promise
Alice Ozma, Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446583770

40. Malcolm X
Manning Marable, Viking, $30, 9780670022205

41. Knowing Your Value
Mika Brzezinski, Weinstein Books, $22.95, 9781602861343

42. This Is Water
David Foster Wallace, Little Brown , $14.99, 9780316068222

43. Physics of the Future
Michio Kaku, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385530804

44. The Tao of Travel
Paul Theroux, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25, 9780547336916

45. Sh*t My Dad Says
Justin Halpern, It Books, $15.99, 9780061992704

46. Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Karen Armstrong, Knopf, $22.95, 9780307595591

47. Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin
Frank Bailey, et al., Howard Books, $26, 9781451654400

48. Founding Gardeners
Andrea Wulf, Knopf, $30, 9780307269904

49. No Shortage of Good Days
John Gierach, Simon & Schuster, $24, 9780743291750

50. The Believing Brain
Michael Shermer, Times Books, $28, 9780805091250