National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for August 21, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending August 17, 2014
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. In the Kingdom of Ice
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535373
The bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers returns with white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age. An August 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/2
2. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book
Diane Muldrow, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307977618
A humorous guide to life for grown-ups by a longtime editor of the iconic Little Golden Books.		 2/41
3. A Spy Among Friends
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $27, 9780804136631
Macintyre's fascinating look at the greatest spy in history, who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War--while he was secretly working for the enemy.		 1/3
4. David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $29, 9780316204361
In his new bestseller, Gladwell draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.		 4/46
5. Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $28.99, 9780062218339
The bestselling authors of Freakonomics take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally-to think, that is, like a Freak.		 6/14
6. Hard Choices
Hillary Rodham Clinton, S&S, $35, 9781476751443
Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.		 5/10
7. Flash Boys
Michael Lewis, Norton, $27.95, 9780393244663
The bestselling author of The Big Short returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.		 9/19
8. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty, Belknap Press, $39.95, 9780674430006
Piketty's analysis of a unique collection of economic data from 20 countries will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.		 8/17
9. The Mockingbird Next Door
Marja Mills, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594205194
Mills' portrait of Harper Lee, author of the beloved novel To Kill a Mockingbird.		 7/5
10. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast, Bloomsbury, $28, 9781608198061
Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. A May 2014 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/13
11. The Invisible Bridge
Rick Perlstein, S&S, $37.50, 9781476782416
Perlstein's dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s.		 10/2
12. Goodnight Darth Vader- Debut
Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95, 9781452128306
Darth Vader's parenting skills are tested anew in the latest by the bestselling author of Darth Vader and Son and Vader's Little Princess.		 /1
13. The First Family Detail
Ronald Kessler, Crown Forum, $26, 9780804139212
The latest by the bestselling author of In the President's Secret Service.		 15/2
14. Blood Feud
Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.99, 9781621573135
Former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons.		 /7
15. Elephant Company
Vicki Croke, Random House, $28, 9781400069330
Croke's fascinating book is an inspirational narrative that illuminates a little-known chapter in the annals of wartime heroism.		 /4

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