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Bestseller List for March 8, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending March 4, 2012
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Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo, Random House, $27, 9781400067558 Boo's brilliant work of narrative nonfiction tells the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in the "unequal city" of Mumbai. |
1/4 |
2. | Steve Jobs 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. |
3/19 |
3. | Quiet Susan Cain, Crown, $26, 9780307352149 Cain seeks to change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves. |
2/6 |
4. | Thinking, Fast and Slow 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. |
8/15 |
5. | Bringing Up Bébé Pamela Druckerman, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594203336 Druckerman reveals the secrets behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. |
5/4 |
6. | 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. |
4/68 |
7. | The End of Illness David B. Agus, M.D., Free Press, $26, 9781451610178 A bold call for all of us to become our own personal health advocates, and a dramatic departure from orthodox thinking. |
7/7 |
8. | In the Garden of Beasts Erik Larson, Crown, $26, 9780307408846 Larson's vivid portrait of Berlin during the early years of Hitler's reign. |
6/43 |
9. | American Sniper Chris Kyle, et al., Morrow, $26.99, 9780062082350 An eyewitness account of war by a Navy SEAL who is the most lethal sniper in United States military history. |
11/7 |
10. | The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Debut Charles Duhigg, Random House, $28, 9781400069286 An exploration into the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. |
/1 |
11. | Killing Lincoln Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070 A riveting historical narrative of the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
9/23 |
12. | The Science of Yoga William J. Broad, Bobby Clennell (Illus.), S&S, $26, 9781451641424 A lifelong yoga practitioner shows uncommon states are integral to a hidden world of risk and reward that lies beneath clouds of myth, superstition, and hype. |
15/4 |
13. | Once Upon a Secret Mimi Alford, Random House, $25, 9781400069101 Alford's memoir of an 18-month affair with JFK and the effect it had on her life. |
14/4 |
14. | 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! |
13/39 |
15. | Goodnight iPad Ann Droyd, Blue Rider, $14.95, 9780399158568 This book, which is made of paper, is a reminder for the child in all of us to power down at the end of the day. |
12/18 |
ON THE RISE | ||
17. | House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East Anthony Shadid, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780547134666 Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Shadid tells the story of rebuilding his family's ancestral home in Lebanon amid political strife. |
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