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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for November 3, 2011
Based on sales for the week ending October 30, 2011
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| Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Steve Jobs- Debut Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539 Isaacson's exclusive biography of Steve Jobs is based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years. |
/1 |
| 2. | Boomerang Michael Lewis, Norton, $25.95, 9780393081817 Lewis' sadly hilarious investigation points to the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations. |
1/4 |
| 3. | Killing Lincoln Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070 A riveting historical narrative of the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
2/5 |
| 4. | Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168 An unforgettable true story that is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. |
3/50 |
| 5. | In the Garden of Beasts Erik Larson, Crown, $26, 9780307408846 Larson's vivid portrait of Berlin during the early years of Hitler's reign. |
5/25 |
| 6. | Rin Tin Tin Susan Orlean, S&S, $26.99, 9781439190135 Orlean's sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin's journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon is an October Indie Next List Great Read. |
7/5 |
| 7. | Go the F**k to Sleep Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95, 9781617750250 Beautiful, subversive, and very funny--a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children! |
4/22 |
| 8. | That Used to Be Us Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum, FSG, $28, 9780374288907 An exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal. |
6/8 |
| 9. | Thinking, Fast and Slow- Debut Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $30, 9780374275631 Kahneman takes readers on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two "systems" that drive the way people think. |
/1 |
| 10. | The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt, Norton, $26.95, 9780393064476 Greenblatt's riveting tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance. |
8/6 |
| 11. | Seriously... I'm Kidding Ellen DeGeneres, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446585026 A memoir by the popular comedian and talk-show host. |
12/4 |
| 12. | Van Gogh Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith, Random House, $40, 9780375507489 Naifeh and Smith's vivid new biography of Van Gogh brings a completely new and sympathetic understanding of the unique artistic genius. |
13/2 |
| 13. | Bossypants Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $26.99, 9780316056861 Very funny essays by the popular star of 30 Rock. |
11/30 |
| 14. | The Greater Journey David McCullough, S&S, $37.50, 9781416571766 McCullough's look at adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, architects, and others who set off for Paris between 1830 and 1900, with ambitions to excel in their work. |
/20 |
| 15. | Jacqueline Kennedy Caroline Kennedy, Michael Beschloss, Hyperion, $60, 9781401324254 In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy, which for the first time can be read and heard in this illustrated book and CD set. |
10/7 |
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| 16. | Why Read Moby-Dick? Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, $25, 9780670022991 Philbrick examines the real-life incident that inspired Melville to write Moby-Dick and provides a tour of the spellbinding classic novel. |
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