National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for October 15, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending October 11, 2015
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. M Train- Debut
Patti Smith, Knopf, $25.00, 9781101875100
A powerful and deeply moving new book by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids.		 /1
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.		 1/48
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.		 3/13
4. Killing Reagan
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $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.		 5/3
5. Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead, $24.95, 9781594634710
Elizabeth Gilbert digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity.		 2/3
6. 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.		 4/4
7. Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson, Flatiron, $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.		 6/3
8. A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction- Debut
Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried, Blue Rider, $28.95, 9780399173325
Kennedy details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles.		 /1
9. 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.		 7/52
10. A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties- Debut
Ben Carson, Candy Carson, Sentinel, $26.95, 9781591848042
A book encouraging every citizen to read and think about the Constitution, by the author of One Nation and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson.		 /1
11. The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath- Debut
Ben S. Bernanke, Norton, $35.00, 9780393247213
Bernanke recounts and explains the worst financial crisis and economic slump in America since the Great Depression and provides an insider's account of the policy response.		 /1
12. 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.		 12/7
13. 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.		 9/17
14. My Kitchen Year
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $35.00, 9781400069989
My Kitchen Year follows the change of seasons--and Reichl's emotions--as she slowly heals through the simple pleasures of cooking.		 10/2
15. 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.		 8/23

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