National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Paperback Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending June 19, 2011

16. Zeitoun
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307387943

17. War
Sebastian Junger, Twelve, $15.99, 9780446556224

18. The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375725609

19. Medium Raw
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $15.99, 9780061718953

20. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542

21. Last Call
Daniel Okrent, Scribner, $17, 9780743277044

22. Man with a Pan
John Donohue (Ed.), Algonquin, $15.95, 9781565129856

23. The Big Short
Michael Lewis, Norton, $15.95, 9780393338829

24. Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre, Broadway, $15, 9780307453280

25. The Last Stand
Nathaniel Philbrick, Penguin, $18, 9780143119609

26. The Tiger
John Vaillant, Vintage, $15, 9780307389046

27. The Only Game in Town
David Remnick (Ed.), Modern Library, $18, 9780812979985

28. Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Penguin, $18, 9780143120278

29. Rand McNally Road Atlas 2012
Rand McNally, $13.95, 9780528003363

30. The Beekeeper's Lament
Hannah Nordhaus, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061873256

31. What the Dog Saw
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316076203

32. The Original Argument
Glenn Beck, Threshold, $16, 9781451650617

33. The Murder Room
Michael Capuzzo, Gotham, $17, 9781592406357

34. Lone Survivor
Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316067607

35. Superfreakonomics
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780060889586

36. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310

37. The Shallows
Nicholas Carr, Norton, $15.95, 9780393339758

38. How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Thomas C. Foster, Harper, $14.99, 9780060009427

39. Packing for Mars
Mary Roach, Norton, $15.95, 9780393339918

40. The Lost Cyclist
David V. Herlihy, Mariner, $14.95, 9780547521985

41. The Sweet Life in Paris
David Lebovitz, Broadway, $14, 9780767928892

42. The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
John Baxter, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061998546

43. The Big Burn
Timothy Egan, Mariner, $15.95, 9780547394602

44. Drive
Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead, $16, 9781594484803

45. The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun
Ken Denmead, Gotham, $18, 9781592406449

46. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper, $18.99, 9780060838652

47. The King's Speech
Mark Logue, Peter Conradi, Sterling, $14.95, 9781402786761

48. The 5 Love Languages
Gary Chapman, Northfield, $14.99, 9780802473158

49. Citizens of London
Lynne Olson, Random House, $17, 9780812979350

50. The Dirty Life
Kristin Kimball, Scribner, $15, 9781416551614

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