National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending October 30, 2011

16. Why Read Moby-Dick?
Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, $25, 9780670022991

17. Guinness World Records 2012
Guinness, $28.95, 9781904994671

18. Hemingway's Boat
Paul Hendrickson, Knopf, $30, 9781400041626

19. The Price of Civilization
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Random House, $27, 9781400068418

20. The End of Normal
Stephanie Mack, Blue Rider Press, $26.95, 9780399158162

21. 1493
Charles C. Mann, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307265722

22. Destiny of the Republic
Candice Millard, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385526265

23. Here Comes Trouble
Michael Moore, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446532242

24. The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker, Viking, $40, 9780670022953

25. The Puppy Diaries
Jill Abramson, Times Books, $22, 9780805093421

26. Midnight Rising
Tony Horwitz, Henry Holt, $29, 9780805091533

27. The Eighty-Dollar Champion
Elizabeth Letts, Ballantine, $26, 9780345521088

28. With Liberty and Justice for Some
Glenn Greenwald, Metropolitan, $26, 9780805092059

29. Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Knopf, $35, 9780307266514

30. Confidence Men
Ron Suskind, Harper, $29.99, 9780061429255

31. The Table Comes First
Adam Gopnik, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307593450

32. West by West
Jerry West, Jonathan Coleman, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316053495

33. Following Atticus
Tom Ryan, Morrow, $25.99, 9780061997105

34. Plenty
Yotam Ottolenghi, Chronicle, $35, 9781452101248

35. Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin, Random House, $27, 9781400069828

36. Arguably
Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $30, 9781455502776

37. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Alexandra Fuller, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594202995

38. Goodnight Ipad
Ann Droyd, Blue Rider Press, $14.95, 9780399158568

39. Lions of the West
Robert Morgan, Shannon Ravenel, $29.95, 9781565126268

40. Suicide of a Superpower
Patrick J. Buchanan, Thomas Dunne, $27.99, 9780312579975

41. A More Perfect Heaven
Dava Sobel, Walker & Company, $25, 9780802717931

42. Nearing Home
Billy Graham, Thomas Nelson, $19.99, 9780849948329

43. The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins, Dave McKean (Illus.), Free Press, $29.99, 9781439192818

44. Just My Type
Simon Garfield, Gotham, $27.50, 9781592406524

45. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
Ian Kershaw, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594203145

46. My Song: A Memoir
Harry Belafonte, Michael Shnayerson, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307272263

47. A Stolen Life
Jaycee Dugard, S&S, $24.99, 9781451629187

48. Five Chiefs
John Paul Stevens, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316199803

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

50. What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes, Atlantic Monthly, $25, 9780802119926

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