National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for June 7, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending June 3, 2012
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson, Broadway, $16, 9780307408853
Larson's vivid portrait of Berlin during the early years of Hitler's reign.		 1/5
2. Bossypants
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $15.99, 9780316056878
Very funny essays by the popular star of 30 Rock.		 2/22
3. Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Mark Adams, Plume, $16, 9780452297982
An adventure travel expert--who's never actually done anything adventurous--tries to recreate the original expedition to Machu Picchu in the Andes.		 3/6
4. The Greater Journey
David McCullough, S&S, $20, 9781416571773
McCullough's look at adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, architects, and others who set off for Paris between 1830 and 1900, with ambitions to excel in their work.		 5/3
5. F in Exams
Richard Benson, Chronicle , $9.95, 9780811878319
Students or anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test will have a good laugh.		 4/51
6. Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95, 9780761159131
A look at amazing friendships between species, collected from around the world and documented in a selection of candid photographs.		 6/51
7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189
A fascinating look at the world's first "immortal" human cells grown in culture to be used in medical research.		 7/65
8. The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson, Riverhead, $16, 9781594485756
Ronson investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them.		 15/3
9. Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II- Debut
Mitchell Zuckoff, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061988356
Zuckoff's fascinating account of an American transport plane's crash in the jungle of Dutch New Guinea in 1945.		 /1
10. The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation- Debut
Elizabeth Letts, Ballantine, $16, 9780345521095
The heartwarming true story of the plow-horse that won the 1958 National Horse Show.		 /1
11. The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin, Harper, $14.99, 9780061583261
The author chronicles a 12-month journey to follow the wisdom of the ages in a quest to be happier.		 8/58
12. The Hare With Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal, Picador, $16, 9780312569372
At the center of de Waal's memoir is his inherited collection of ornamental Japanese wood and ivory carvings.		 13/41
13. Nothing Daunted
Dorothy Wickenden, Scribner, $15, 9781439176597
Wickenden's exhilarating saga about two intrepid young women and their trip to the Colorado wilderness in the summer of 1916.		 10/6
14. Heaven Is for Real
Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158
A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.		 12/72
15. Blue Nights- Debut
Joan Didion, Vintage, $15, 9780307387387
Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts about having children, illness, and growing old.		 /1


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