National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for April 2, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending March 29, 2015
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Dead Wake
Erik Larson, Crown, $28, 9780307408860
Larson's Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. A March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 1/3
2. 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.		 2/21
3. H Is for Hawk
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $26, 9780802123411
MacDonald's extraordinary blend of nature writing and memoir is a March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/6
4. 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.		 3/25
5. Better Than Before
Gretchen Rubin, Crown, $26, 9780385348614
The bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Happier at Home tackles the critical question: How do we change?		 6/2
6. Yes Please
Amy Poehler, Dey Street, $28.99, 9780062268341
A hilarious and candid book by the popular Saturday Night Live alumna and star of Parks and Recreation.		 5/22
7. Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader- Debut
Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli, Crown Business, $30, 9780385347402
Becoming Steve Jobs shows how one of the most compelling figures of our time combined his unchanging, relentless passion with a more mature management style to create one of the most valuable and beloved companies on the planet.		 /1
8. 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.		 9/29
9. Get What's Yours
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, et al., S&S, $19.99, 9781476772295
Learn the secrets to maximizing your Social Security benefits and earn up to thousands of dollars more each year with expert advice that you can't get anywhere else.		 10/2
10. Girl in a Band
Kim Gordon, Dey Street, $27.99, 9780062295897
A memoir by the founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women.		 8/5
11. 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.		 11/27
12. 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.		 /71
13. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
Laura Ingalls Wilder, South Dakota State Historical Society, $39.95, 9780984504176
Hidden away since the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder's never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life.		 7/5
14. The Motivation Manifesto
Brendon Burchard, Hay House, $19.99, 9781401948078
World-renowned high performance trainer Burchard motivates us to free ourselves from fear and take back our lives once and for all.		 15/9
15. Every Day I Fight
Stuart Scott, Larry Platt, Blue Rider, $26.95, 9780399174063
The fearless, intimate, and inspiring story behind ESPN anchor Stuart Scott's unrelenting fight against cancer.		 12/3
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17. Heretic
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Harper, $27.99, 9780062333933
The bestselling author of Infidel makes a passionate plea for peaceful change and a new era of global toleration.		  

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