National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for October 1, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending September 27, 2015
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. 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.		 1/46
2. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear -Debut
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead, $24.95, 9781594634710
Elizabeth Gilbert digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity.		 /1
3. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $24.00, 9780812993547
Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis in this bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history. A September 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 3/11
4. Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling, Crown Archetype, $25.00, 9780804138147
The essays in Kaling's new collection are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal.		 2/2
5. Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency -Debut
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Henry Holt & Company, $30.00, 9781627792417
From the bestselling duo Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan, an epic, page-turning account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down.		 /1
6. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things -Debut 
Jenny Lawson, Flatiron Books, $26.99, 9781250077004
Bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.		 /1
7. Being Mortal
Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $26.00, 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.		 5/50
8. The Wright Brothers
David McCullough, S&S, $30.00, 9781476728742
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner McCullough tells the dramatic story of the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly.		 8/21
9. The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr, Harper, $24.99, 9780062223067
An elegant and accessible exploration of one of today's most popular literary forms -- a tour de force from an accomplished master pulling back the curtain on her craft.		 6/2
10. Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari, Penguin Press, $28.95, 9781594206276
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance by one of this generation's sharpest comedic voices.		 7/15
11. Rising Strong
Brene Brown, Spiegel & Grau, $27.00, 9780812995824
Living a brave life is not always easy -- we are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall. It is the rise after a fall that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong.		 4/5
12. Dead Wake
Erik Larson, Crown, $28.00, 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.		 9/28
13. Guinness World Records 2016
Guinness World Records, $28.95, 9781910561027
The latest incarnation of the bestselling annual with thousands of new and classic records.		 10/3
14. H Is for Hawk
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $26.00, 9780802123411
MacDonald's extraordinary blend of nature writing and memoir is a March 2015 Indie Next List Great Read.		 11/25
15. Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After -Debut
Katherine Woodward Thomas, Harmony, $26.00, 9780553446999
Catherine Woodward Thomas' groundbreaking method, Conscious Uncoupling, provides the valuable skills and tools for you to travel the path to the end of a relationship -- an end that is filled with mutual respect, kindness, and deep caring.		 /1

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