National Indie Bestsellers

2016 Indie Bestsellers
Based on sales from January 1, 2016 through November 27, 2016
For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736,
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction  
1. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143125471		  
2. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20.00, 9780143034759		  
3. H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802124739		  
4. Dead Wake
Erik Larson, Broadway, $17.00, 9780307408877		  
5. You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16.00, 9780762447695		  
6. The Wright Brothers
David McCullough, S&S, $17.00, 9781476728759		  
7. Barbarian Days
William Finnegan, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143109396		  
8. The Mindfulness Coloring Book
Emma Farrarons, Experiment, $9.95, 9781615192823		  
9. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16.00, 9780812984965		  
10. Harry Potter Coloring Book
Scholastic, $15.99, 9781338029994		  
11. Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143109259		  
12. The Big Short
Michael Lewis, Norton, $15.95, 9780393353150		  
13. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761		  
14. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
Harvard Business Review, et al., Harvard Business School Press, $24.95, 9781633690196		  
15. Lost Ocean
Johanna Basford, Penguin, $16.95, 9780143108993		  

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