National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for August 22, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending August 19, 2018
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99, 9780062316110
A groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be human.		 1/14
2. Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $16.99, 9780060899226
In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain tells the wild-but-true tales of his life in the culinary trade.		 2/10
3. Black Klansman
Ron Stallworth, Flatiron, $17.99, 9781250299055
Black Klansman is an amazing true story that reads like a crime thriller, a searing portrait of a divided America and the extraordinary heroes who dare to fight back. Now a major motion picture.		 6/3
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307742483
Grann's twisting and haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.		 3/20
5. 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.		 5/161
6. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $16.99, 9780062300553
By a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.		 4/16
7. Shoe Dog
Phil Knight, Scribner, $20.00, 9781501135927
Nike founder Knight shares the inside story of one of the world's most iconic and profitable brands.		 7/16
8. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness
Harvard Business School Press, $24.95, 9781633694361
Ten articles from the Harvard Business Review to help you build your emotional strength and resilience--and to achieve high performance.		 10/22
9. American Wolf
Nate Blakeslee, Broadway, $16.00, 9781101902806
A riveting multigenerational saga that tells the story of the ongoing cultural clash in the West between those fighting for a vanishing way of life and those committed to restoring one of the country's most iconic landscapes.		 8/3
10. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18.00, 9781501145254
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first book since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 is a witty, engaging, and serious collection of writings and speeches.		 9/2
11. Prairie Fires
Caroline Fraser, Picador, $22.00, 9781250182487
The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books.		 13/2
12. 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.		 15/83
13. Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker, Scribner, $17.00, 9781501144325
Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve our lives and provides actionable steps towards getting a better night's sleep every night.		 11/7
14. Theft by Finding
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $17.99, 9780316154734
Theft by Finding proves that Sedaris is one of our great modern observers. It's a potent reminder that when you're as perceptive and curious as Sedaris, there's no such thing as a boring day.		 14/11
15. 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.		 /42

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