National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending September 23, 2012

16. Wheat Belly
William Davis, Rodale, $25.99, 9781609611545

17. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores
Jen Campbell, Overlook, $15, 9781468301281

18. Double Cross
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $26, 9780307888754

19. I Declare
Joel Osteen, Faithwords, $21.99, 9781455516780

20. Paris: A Love Story
Kati Marton, S&S, $24, 9781451691542

21. Quiet
Susan Cain, Crown, $26, 9780307352149

22. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
D.T. Max, Viking, $27.95, 9780670025923

23. The Black Count
Tom Reiss, Crown, $27, 9780307382467

24. The Amateur
Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596987852

25. Vagina: A New Biography
Naomi Wolf, Ecco, $27.99, 9780061989162

26. Daring Greatly
Brene Brown, Gotham, $26, 9781592407330

27. The Secret Race
Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle, Bantam, $28, 9780345530417

28. The Revenge of Geography
Robert D. Kaplan, Random House, $28, 9781400069835

29. Winter Journal
Paul Auster, Holt, $26, 9780805095531

30. Happier at Home
Gretchen Rubin, Crown Archetype, $26, 9780307886781

31. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $26, 9781400069347

32. Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95, 9781617750250

33. Who Stole the American Dream?
Hedrick Smith, Random House, $30, 9781400069668

34. Life After Death
Damien Echols, Blue Rider, $26.95, 9780399160202

35. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco (Illus.), Nation Books, $28, 9781568586434

36. Obama's America
Dinesh D'Souza, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596987784

37. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539

38. Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!
Erich Origen, Gan Golan, Ten Speed Press, $14.99, 9781607743927

39. I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
Tony Danza, Crown Archetype, $24, 9780307887863

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

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

42. The Art of Procrastination
John Perry, Workman, $12.95, 9780761171676

43. Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson, Amy Einhorn, $25.95, 9780399159015

44. The Presidents Club
Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy, S&S, $32.50, 9781439127704

45. Fire in the Ashes
Jonathan Kozol, Crown, $27, 9781400052462

46. The Party Is Over
Mike Lofgren, Viking, $25.95, 9780670026265

47. The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg, Random House, $28, 9781400069286

48. A Wilderness of Error
Errol Morris, Penguin Press, $29.95, 9781594203435

49. Are You My Mother?
Alison Bechdel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22, 9780618982509

50. When Women Were Birds
Terry Tempest Williams, FSG, $23, 9780374288976

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