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Bestseller List for October 25, 2017
Based on sales for the week ending October 22, 2017
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Trade Paperback Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Picador USA, $16.00, 9781250076229 Practicing surgeon Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. |
1/7 |
2. | 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. |
3/118 |
3. | Rogue Heroes Ben Macintyre, Broadway, $16.00, 9781101904183 By the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends--the untold story of one of WWII's most important secret military units. |
2/8 |
4. | The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $17.00, 9781501171581 A lovely telling of a most bizarre upbringing. Now a major motion picture. |
4/14 |
5. | Invisible Influence Jonah Berger, S&S, $16.00, 9781476759739 The bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make. |
5/18 |
6. | 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. |
6/32 |
7. | 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. |
7/62 |
8. | Lucky 666 Bob Drury, Tom Clavin, S&S, $17.00, 9781476774862 The dramatic story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943 and engage in the longest dogfight in history, and change the momentum of the War in the Pacific. |
8/2 |
9. | Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell- Debut Alexandra Horowitz, Scribner, $17.00, 9781476796024 The bestselling author of Inside of a Dog explains how dogs experience the world through their most spectacular organ: the nose. |
/1 |
10. | 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. |
9/42 |
11. | The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo Amy Schumer, Gallery, $16.00, 9781501139895 Emmy Award-winner Schumer's refreshingly candid and uproariously funny collection of extremely personal and observational essays. |
11/11 |
12. | On Trails Robert Moor, S&S, $16.00, 9781476739236 A wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world--from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet. |
12/16 |
13. | The Lost City of the Monkey God Douglas Preston, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455540013 Preston's book is an eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the 21st century. |
10/6 |
14. | How to Fight Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781941529867 Learn how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment, and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves and others. |
/2 |
15. | Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $10.00, 9780062695697 A collection of essays, spanning politics, criticism, and feminism, from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation. |
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