The Book Sense Biography and Memoir Bestseller List

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For the four-week period ended January 25, 2004, based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

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The Book Sense Biography and Memoir Bestseller List
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi, Random House, $13.95, 081297106X
2. American Dynasty
Kevin Phillips, Viking, $25.95, 0670032646
3. Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom, Broadway, $12.95, 076790592X
4. Franklin and Winston
Jon Meacham, Random House, $29.95, 0375505008
5. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller, Random House, $13.95, 0375758992
6. Running With Scissors
Augusten Burroughs, Picador, $14, 031242227X
7. Living to Tell the Tale
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Knopf, $26.95, 1400041341
8. Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $30, 0684807610
9. My Prison Without Bars
Pete Rose, Rodale, $24.95, 1579549276
10. Waiting for Snow in Havana
Carlos Eire, Free Press, $14, 0743246411
11. Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $25.95, 0375506160
12. Broken Music
Sting, Dial, $26, 0385336780
13. A Child Called "It"
Dave Pelzer, HCI, $9.95, 1558743669
14. Every Second Counts
Lance Armstrong, Broadway, $24.95, 0385508719
15. Madam Secretary
Madeleine Albright, Miramax Books, $27.95, 0786868430
16. Jarhead
Anthony Swofford, Scribner, $14, 0743244915
17. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $14, 0375725784
18. The Opposite of Fate
Amy Tan, Putnam, $24.95, 0399150749
19. In an Uncertain World
Robert Edward Rubin, Random House, $35, 0375505857
20. Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton, S&S, $28, 0743222245
21. Climbing Higher
Montel Williams, NAL, $25.95, 0451211596
22. It's Not About the Bike
Lance Armstrong, Berkley, $14, 0425179613
23. Samurai William
Giles Milton, Penguin, $14, 0142003786
24. This Just in: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV
Bob Schieffer, Berkley, $14, 0425194337
25.

The Lost Boy
Dave Pelzer, HCI, $10.95, 1558745157
26. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Laurence Bergreen, Morrow, $27.95, 0066211735
27. A Royal Duty
Paul Burrell, Putnam, $25.95, 0399151729
28. Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $12.95, 0385486804
29. Naked
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316777730
30. My Losing Season
Pat Conroy, Bantam, $14.95, 0553381903
31. Winning Back America
Howard Dean, S&S, $11.95, 0743255712
32. Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs
Cheryl Peck, Warner, $12.95, 0446692298
33. Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers
Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Atria, $29.95, 0671024787
34. The Privilege of Youth
Dave Pelzer, Dutton, $21.95, 0525947698
35. The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstad, Little Brown, $19.95, 0316734500
36. A Thousand Days in Venice
Marlena De Blasi, Ballantine, $12.95, 0345457641
37. John Adams
David McCullough, Touchstone, $18.95, 0743223136
38. The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman, PublicAffairs, $30, 1586480286
39. Reflections
Barbara Bush, Scribner, $28, 0743223594
40. Leap of Faith
Queen Noor, Miramax Books, $25.95, 0786867175
41. Journals
Kurt Cobain, Riverhead, $19.95, 157322359X
42. The Lord Is My Shepherd
Harold S. Kushner, Knopf, $19.95, 1400040566
43. Goya
Robert Hughes, Knopf, $40, 0394580281
44. Complications
Atul Gawande, Picador, $13, 0312421702
45. Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
David Roberts, S&S, $25, 0743224310
46. Bold Spirit
Linda Lawrence Hunt, Univ. of Idaho, $16.95, 0893012629
47. Where I Was From
Joan Didion, Knopf, $23, 0679433325
48. Night
Elie Wiesel, Bantam, $5.99, 0553272535
49. The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush
Ann Gerhart, S&S, $23, 0743243838
50. Cheaper by the Dozen
Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., Perennial, $9.95, 006008460X
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