National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for February 22, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending February 19, 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.		 1/28
2. 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.		 2/23
3. 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.		 4/11
4. 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.		 3/11
5. 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.		 6/14
6. Killing the Rising Sun
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30.00, 9781627790628
Killing the Rising Sun details the final moments of World War II like never before.		 5/22
7. 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.		 7/84
8. 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.		 8/53
9. The Little Book of Hygge
Meik Wiking, Morrow, $19.99, 9780062658807
Meik Wiking, the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, provides a definitive guide to the Danish philosophy of comfort, togetherness, and well-being.		 12/2
10. 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.		 10/6
11. 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.		 /13
12. Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves, Talentsmart, $24.99, 9780974320625
Bradberry and Greaves' revolutionary program to help people identify their "EQ" skills, build these skills into strengths, and enjoy consistent performance in the pursuit of important life objectives.		 13/37
13. Tears We Cannot Stop
Michael Eric Dyson, St. Martin's, $24.99, 9781250135995
Short, emotional, literary, and powerful--Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.		 9/4
14. 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.		 11/13
15. 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.		 15/8

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