National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending February 17, 2013

16. The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
Deb Perelman, Knopf, $35, 9780307595652

17. Coolidge
Amity Shlaes, Harper, $35, 9780061967559

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

19. A Higher Call
Adam Makos, Larry Alexander, Berkley, $26.95, 9780425252864

20. Barefoot Contessa Foolproof
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780307464873

21. Whitey Bulger
Kevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy, Norton, $26.95, 9780393087727

22. The Dude and the Zen Master
Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman, Blue Rider Press, $26.95, 9780399161643

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

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

25. Why Priests?
Garry Wills, Viking, $27.95, 9780670024872

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

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

28. Underwater Dogs
Seth Casteel, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316227704

29. Pukka's Promise
Ted Kerasote, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780547236261

30. To Sell Is Human
Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594487156

31. The Genius of Dogs
Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods, Dutton, $27.95, 9780525953197

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

33. Kill Anything That Moves
Nick Turse, Metropolitan, $30, 9780805086911

34. The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594204111

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

36. The Hour of Peril
Daniel Stashower, Minotaur, $26.99, 9780312600228

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

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

39. Fifty Shades of Chicken: A Parody in a Cookbook
F.L. Fowler, Clarkson Potter, $19.99, 9780385345224

40. Engineers of Victory
Paul Kennedy, Random House, $30, 9781400067619

41. The Normal Bar
Chrisanna Northrup, et al., Harmony, $25, 9780307951632

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

43. Nigellissima
Nigella Lawson, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780770437015

44. Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan, Norton, $26.95, 9780393071955

45. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
William Manchester, Paul Reid, Little Brown, $40, 9780316547703

46. The Chronicles of Downton Abbey
Jessica Fellowes, Matthew Sturgis, St. Martin's, $29.99, 9781250027627

47. American Sniper
Chris Kyle, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062082350

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

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

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

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