National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for March 29, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending March 26, 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.		 1/33
2. The Stranger in the Woods
Michael Finkel, Knopf, $25.95, 9781101875681
Finkel tells the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years. A March 2017 Indie Next List Great Read.		 5/3
3. South and West
Joan Didion, Knopf, $21.00, 9781524732790
Two extended excerpts from Didion's never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer.		 2/3
4. 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.		 4/16
5. Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper, $35.00, 9780062464316
The bestselling author of Sapiens turns his focus toward humanity's future.		 9/5
6. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $15.00, 9781524733131
From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.		 3/3
7. Unshakeable
Tony Robbins, S&S, $26.00, 9781501164583
Robbins provides a step-by-step playbook to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom.		 8/4
8. 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.		 6/28
9. A Colony in a Nation- Debut
Chris Hayes, Norton, $26.95, 9780393254228
A searing and insightful book that will reframe our thinking about law and order in the United States in the years to come.		 /1
10. 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.		 11/19
11. 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.		 10/27
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.		 13/42
13. 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.		 12/16
14. 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.		 7/58
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.		 /107

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