National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for October 9, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending October 5, 2014
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Killing Patton
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30, 9780805096682
Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of WWII and recounts the events surrounding the death of General George S. Patton.		 1/2
2. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"- Debut
Lena Dunham, Random House, $28, 9780812994995
A hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays by the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls.		 /1
3. 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.		 3/48
4. What If?
Randall Munroe, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 9780544272996
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.		 2/5
5. What I Know for Sure
Oprah Winfrey, Flatiron, $24.99, 9781250054050
A collection of O, The Oprah Magazine's widely popular "What I Know for Sure" columns, revised and updated.		 4/5
6. This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein, S&S, $30, 9781451697384
Klein explains why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.		 5/3
7. How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, III, Jonathan Rosenberg, Grand Central, $30, 9781455582341
An entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Schmidt and Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company.		 7/2
8. World Order
Henry Kissinger, Penguin Press, $36, 9781594206146
Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era, Kissinger offers a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder.		 6/4
9. 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.		 11/53
10. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World- Debut
Steven Johnson, Riverhead, $30, 9781594632969
A new look at the power and legacy of great ideas by the bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You.		 /1
11. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson- Debut
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $35, 9781451673289
Gwynne's thrilling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic American hero.		 /1
12. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century- Debut
Steven Pinker, Viking, $27.95, 9780670025855
A short and entertaining book about the modern art of writing well by the bestselling author of The Better Angels of Our Nature.		 /1
13. Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Crown Business, $27, 9780804139298
Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation.		 8/3
14. 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.		 13/21
15. 13 Hours
Mitchell Zuckoff, Twelve, $28, 9781455582273
The harrowing, true account of the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.		 10/4

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