National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending December 9, 2012

16. No Easy Day
Mark Owen, Dutton, $26.95, 9780525953722

17. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168

18. Far From the Tree
Andrew Solomon, Scribner, $37.50, 9780743236713

19. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780618969029

20. Darth Vader and Son
Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95, 9781452106557

21. The Patriarch
David Nasaw, Penguin Press, $40, 9781594203763

22. Jerusalem: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ten Speed Press, $35, 9781607743941

23. Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307957245

24. How Music Works
David Byrne, McSweeney's, $32, 9781936365531

25. Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die
Willie Nelson, Morrow, $22.99, 9780062193643

26. Building Stories
Chris Ware, Pantheon, $50, 9780375424335

27. The Onion Book of Known Knowledge
Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316133265

28. Tap Dancing to Work
Carol Loomis, Portfolio, $27.95, 9781591845737

29. Bruce
Peter Ames Carlin, Touchstone, $28, 9781439191828

30. The Generals
Thomas E. Ricks, Penguin Press, $32.95, 9781594204043

31. Underwater Dogs
unknown, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316227704

32. Fifty Shades of Chicken
F.L. Fowler, Clarkson Potter, $19.99, 9780385345224

33. My Bookstore
Ronald Rice (Ed.), Black Dog & Leventhal, $23.95, 9781579129101

34. Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House, $30, 9781400067824

35. Elsewhere
Richard Russo, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959539

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

37. Grace
Grace Coddington, Random House, $35, 9780812993356

38. The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe, Knopf, $25, 9780307594037

39. Goodnight iPad
Ann Droyd, Blue Rider, $14.95, 9780399158568

40. Charlie Brown's Christmas Stocking
Charles M. Schulz, Fantagraphics, $9.99, 9781606996249

41. Who I Am
Pete Townshend, Harper, $32.50, 9780062127242

42. The Mini Minimalist
Mark Bittman, Clarkson N Potter, $19.95, 9780307985552

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

44. The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
The New Yorker Magazine, Random House, $45, 9780679644750

45. How Children Succeed
Paul Tough, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547564654

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

47. Inventing Wine
Paul Lukacs, Norton, $28.95, 9780393064520

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

49. Heads in Beds
Jacob Tomsky, Doubleday Books, $25.95, 9780385535632

50. The Science of Good Cooking
Guy Crosby, America's Test Kitchen, $40, 9781933615981

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