National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending November 6, 2011

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

17. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $30, 9780374275631

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

19. Civilization
Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594203053

20. A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor, Viking, $45, 9780670022700

21. Bossypants
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur, $26.99, 9780316056861

22. That Used to Be Us
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum, FSG, $28, 9780374288907

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

24. The Greater Journey
David McCullough, S&S, $37.50, 9781416571766

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

26. Seriously... I'm Kidding
Ellen DeGeneres, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446585026

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

28. Jacqueline Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy, Michael Beschloss, Hyperion, $60, 9781401324254

29. Jerusalem
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Knopf, $35, 9780307266514

30. Midnight Rising
Tony Horwitz, Holt, $29, 9780805091533

31. Van Gogh
Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith, Random House, $40, 9780375507489

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

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

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

35. That Is All
John Hodgman, Dutton, $25, 9780525952442

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

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

38. The 50 Funniest American Writers
Andy Borowitz (Ed.), Library of America, $27.95, 9781598531077

39. The Lost Empire of Atlantis
Gavin Menzies, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062049483

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

41. The Conference of the Birds
Peter Sis, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594203060

42. 1493
Charles C. Mann, Knopf, $30.50, 9780307265722

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

44. Pacific Crucible
Ian W. Toll, Norton, $35, 9780393068139

45. The Garner Files
James Garner, Jon Winokur, S&S, $25.99, 9781451642605

46. This Is Herman Cain!
Herman Cain, Threshold Editions, $25, 9781451666137

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

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

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

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

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