National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for October 30, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending October 26, 2014
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Not That Kind of Girl
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.		 1/4
2. 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.		 2/5
3. Being Mortal
Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $26, 9780805095159
Practicing surgeon Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.		 3/3
4. The Innovators
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781476708690
Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet looks at the history of the digital revolution and is an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.		 4/3
5. Plenty More
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $35, 9781607746218
The follow-up to London chef Ottolenghi's bestselling and award-winning cookbook Plenty.		 10/2
6. 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.		 6/51
7. 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.		 5/8
8. Rebel Yell
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.		 15/4
9. Choose Your Own Autobiography
Neil Patrick Harris, Crown Archetype, $26, 9780385346993
In his funny and inventive autobiography, Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life.		 11/2
10. How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Grand Central, $30, 9781455582341
An entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Schmidt and Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company.		 12/5
11. 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.		 13/8
12. Food: A Love Story- Debut
Jim Gaffigan, Crown Archetype, $26, 9780804140416
The latest by the popular comedian and bestselling author of Dad Is Fat.		 /1
13. 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.		 7/6
14. As You Wish
Cary Elwes, Touchstone, $26, 9781476764023
A first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film The Princess Bride.		 9/2
15. Worthy Fights
Leon Panetta, Penguin Press, $36, 9781594205965
A revelatory autobiography by the former defense secretary and CIA director.		 8/3
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19. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 9781607747307
Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.		  

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