National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for May 31, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending May 28, 2017
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $7.99, 9780804190114
Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the 20th century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.		 1/11
2. The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman, Norton, $15.95, 9780393354256
The true story of zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who hid hundreds of Polish Jews during WWII, based on Antonina's diaries.		 2/16
3. You Are a Badass
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.		 3/97
4. White Trash
Nancy Isenberg, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143129677
We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation's history. With Isenberg's book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.		 4/8
5. Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly, Morrow, $15.99, 9780062363602
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Now a major motion picture.		 5/25
6. The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $20.00, 9781476733524
Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.		 6/4
7. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
Harvard Business School Press, $24.95, 9781422157992
A collection of Harvard Business Review articles to help you maximize yourself.		 8/21
8. Originals
Adam Grant, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143128854
Grant examines how people can champion new ideas--and how leaders can encourage originality in their organizations.		 7/16
9. Evicted
Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17.00, 9780553447453
Desmond transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem.		 9/13
10. The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $17.00, 9780399563126
Ackerman delivers an extraordinary story that will give readers a new appreciation for the exceptional talents of birds and let them discover what birds can reveal about our changing world.		 10/7
11. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
Harvard Business School Press, $24.95, 9781633690196
Ten articles from the Harvard Business Review archive selected to help you boost your emotional skills--and your professional success.		 12/50
12. The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction- Debut
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $17.99, 9780062262271
Gaiman's enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics--from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories.		 /1
13. But What If We're Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman, Blue Rider, $16.00, 9780399184130
Klosterman's fascinating book visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past.		 11/2
14. How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781455582327
An entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Schmidt and Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company.		 /6
15. 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.		 15/76

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