National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Paperback Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending November 12, 2017

16. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer, Gallery, $16.00, 9781501139895

17. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2018
Old Farmer's Almanac, $7.95, 9781571987358

18. Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $10.00, 9780062695697

19. Lucky 666
Bob Drury, Tom Clavin, S&S, $17.00, 9781476774862

20. Evicted
Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17.00, 9780553447453

21. The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $17.00, 9780399563126

22. The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $16.00, 9780375725609

23. Red Notice
Bill Browder, S&S, $16.00, 9781476755748

24. Really Important Stuff My Cat Has Taught Me
Cynthia L. Copeland, Workman, $12.95, 9781523501489

25. The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan, Vintage, $20.00, 9781101912379

26. Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith, FSG, $16.00, 9780374537197

27. Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen, S&S, $19.99, 9781501141522

28. Lab Girl
Hope Jahren, Vintage, $16.00, 9781101873724

29. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761

30. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20.00, 9780143034759

31. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16.00, 9780812984965

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

33. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143125471

34. The Tao of Bill Murray
Gavin Edwards, R. Sikoryak, Random House, $16.00, 9780812988086

35. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
Samantha Irby, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101912195

36. Strong Is the New Pretty
Kate T. Parker, Workman, $17.95, 9780761189138

37. On Hitler's Mountain
Irmgard A. Hunt, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780060532185

38. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16.00, 9781451697728

39. White Trash
Nancy Isenberg, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143129677

40. Living in a Mindful Universe
Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Rodale, $17.99, 9781635650655

41. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $16.00, 9781400078431

42. 7 Lessons from Heaven
Mary C. Neal, Convergent Books, $16.99, 9780451495426

43. Daring Greatly
Brene Brown, Avery, $17.00, 9781592408412

44. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion, FSG, $15.00, 9780374531386

45. Basketball (and Other Things)
Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres (Illus.), Abrams Image, $19.99, 9781419726477

46. Dark Money
Jane Mayer, Anchor, $17.00, 9780307947901

47. George Washington's Secret Six
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger, Sentinel, $16.00, 9781595231109

48. Rising Strong
Brene Brown, Random House, $18.00, 9780812985801

49. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $16.00, 9780374533557

50. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062236685

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