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Bestseller List for January 31, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending January 28, 2018
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Trade Paperback Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. | 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. |
1/132 |
2. | 12 Strong Doug Stanton, Scribner, $18.00, 9781501178511 The true-life account of a U.S. Special Forces team deployed to war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11. |
2/5 |
3. | The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan, Vintage, $20.00, 9781101912379 The epic history of the crossroads of the world--the meeting place of East and West and the birthplace of civilization. |
3/9 |
4. | The Lost City of the Monkey God Douglas J. Preston, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455540013 Preston's book is an eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the 21st century. |
4/20 |
5. | 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. |
5/21 |
6. | 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. |
6/32 |
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. |
11/54 |
8. | 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. |
7/74 |
9. | Being a Dog 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. |
12/15 |
10. | The Undoing Project Michael Lewis, Norton, $16.95, 9780393354775 Lewis tells the incredible true story about how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. |
10/13 |
11. | 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. |
8/37 |
12. | 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. |
9/46 |
13. | 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. |
15/18 |
14. | The Soul of an Octopus Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16.00, 9781451697728 Montgomery explores the world of the octopus--a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature--and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. A National Book Award finalist. |
/27 |
15. | South and West Joan Didion, Vintage, $15.00, 9780525434191 South and West gives us two extended excerpts from notebooks Didion kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape. |
13/3 |
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