National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for January 11, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending January 8, 2017
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99, 9780062300546
By a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.		 1/22
2. The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis, Norton, $28.95, 9780393254594
Lewis tells the incredible true story about how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.		 2/5
3. The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95, 9781771642484
After reading Wohlleben's fascinating book about the complex life of trees, a walk in the woods will never be the same. A September 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 9/17
4. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $28.00, 9780399588174
Noah's compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime coming-of-age memoir--set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed--is a December 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 4/8
5. The Book of Joy
The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Avery, $26.00, 9780399185045
In this unique collaboration, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu offer a reflection on lives filled with pain and turmoil, in the midst of which they discovered a level of peace, courage, and joy that we can all aspire to.		 8/5
6. Thank You for Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $28.00, 9780374273538
With his trademark vitality, wit, and optimism, Friedman shows that we can overcome the multiple stresses of an age of accelerations--if we slow down, if we dare to be late and use the time to reimagine work, politics, and community.		 5/7
7. The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher, Blue Rider, $26.00, 9780399173592
Fisher's intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on the set of the first Star Wars movie.		 3/2
8. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $25.00, 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.		 11/78
9. When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $25.00, 9780812988406
This profoundly moving and exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis is a January 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 7/47
10. Upstream
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26.00, 9781594206702
Upstream is a collection of essays in which Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature.		 10/13
11. Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen, S&S, $32.50, 9781501141515
In his insightful memoir Springsteen demonstrates the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.		 6/15
12. Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers- Debut
Timothy Ferriss, Houghton Mifflin Harcout, $28.00, 9781328683786
The latest by the bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek.		 /1
13. Atlas Obscura
Joshua Foer, et al., Workman, $35.00, 9780761169086
Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world.		 15/12
14. Scrappy Little Nobody
Anna Kendrick, Touchstone, $26.99, 9781501117206
This collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress is a December 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.		 /4
15. 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.		 /106
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20. The Lost City of the Monkey God
Douglas Preston, Grand Central, $28.00, 9781455540006
Preston's latest is an absolutely true eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the 21st century.		  

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