National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for July 23, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending July 19, 2015
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143125471
Brown tells the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.		 1/60
2. I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai, Back Bay, $16.00, 9780316322423
The remarkable memoir of a young Pakistani girl who refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.		 2/7
3. Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062218346
The bestselling authors of Freakonomics take us inside their thought processes and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally—to think, that is, like a Freak.		 6/2
4. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101873441
Strayed's powerfully honest memoir of loss and recovery is now a major motion picture.		 3/34
5. How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143127536
Ellenberg unveils the hidden beauty and logic of math and puts its power in our hands.		 5/8
6. David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.00, 9780316204378
Gladwell draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.		 4/15
7. The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill Lepore, Vintage, $16.95, 9780804173407
Lepore tells the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes and reveals within it a fascinating family story--and a crucial history of 20th-century feminism.		 7/2
8. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761
The award-winning author of Americanah offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the 21st century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.		 8/20
9. You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life- Debut
Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16.00, 9780762447695
Sincero helps you understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to start living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.		 /1
10. The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert, Picador USA, $16.00, 9781250062185
Kolbert's fascinating book about the future of the world blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.		 13/26
11. The Opposite of Loneliness
Marina Keegan, Scribner, $15.00, 9781476753911
An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays by a talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.		 9/23
12. What the Dog Knows
Cat Warren, Touchstone, $16.00, 9781451667325
Warren's firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of working dogs.		 10/18
13. The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee- Debut
Marja Mills, Penguin , $17.00, 9780143127666
Mills' portrait of Harper Lee, author of the beloved novel To Kill a Mockingbird.		 /1
14. Orange Is the New Black
Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau, $16.00, 9780812986181
Kerman's heartbreaking, hilarious, and at times enraging story of her year incarcerated is the basis of the Netflix series.		 11/57
15. A Deadly Wandering
Matt Richtel, Morrow, $15.99, 9780062284075
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Richtel examines the impact of technology on our lives through the story of a college student who killed two scientists while texting and driving.		 12/5

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