The Book Sense Biography & Memoir Bestseller List

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Based on sales for the eight-week period ending January 22, 2006, in hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.

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The Book Sense Biography & Memoir Bestseller List

1.

A Million Little Pieces
James Frey, Anchor, $14.95, 0307276902

2.

Teacher Man
Frank McCourt, Scribner, $26, 0743243773

3.

Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $35, 0684824906

4.

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X

5.

Marley & Me
John Grogan, Morrow, $21.95, 0060817089

6.

My Friend Leonard
James Frey, Riverhead, $24.95, 1573223158

7.

Chronicles
Bob Dylan, S&S, $14, 0743244583

8.

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard, Doubleday, $26, 0385507968

9.

The Beatles: The Biography
Bob Spitz, Little Brown, $29.95, 0316803529

10.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
Alan Alda, Random House, $24.95, 1400064090

11.

700 Sundays
Billy Crystal, Warner, $21.95, 0446578673

12.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins, Plume, $15, 0452287081

13.

Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $14.95, 0812973011

14.

His Excellency: George Washington
Joseph J. Ellis, Vintage, $15, 1400032539

15.

Julie and Julia
Julie Powell, Little Brown, $23.95, 031610969X

16.

Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi, Random House, $14.95, 081297106X

17.

Will in the World
Stephen J. Greenblatt, Norton, $14.95, 039332737X

18.

The Tender Bar
J.R. Moehringer, Hyperion, $23.95, 1401300642

19.

The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstad, Back Bay, $12.95, 0316159417

20.

Night
Elie Wiesel, Bantam, $5.99, 0553272535

21.

Mao
Jung Chang, Jon Halliday, Knopf, $35, 0679422714

22.

Jarhead
Anthony Swofford, Pocket, $7.99, 141651340X

23.

Magical Thinking: True Stories
Augusten Burroughs, Picador, $14, 0312315953

24.

Running With Scissors
Augusten Burroughs, Picador, $14, 031242227X

25.

The Know-It-All
A.J. Jacobs, S&S, $14, 0743250621

26.

Here's Johnny!
Ed McMahon, Rutledge Hill, $24.99, 1401602363

27.

John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father
Peggy Noonan, Viking, $24.95, 0670037486

28.

Dean and Me: (A Love Story)
Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan, Doubleday, $26.95, 0767920864

29.

Between You and Me
Mike Wallace, Hyperion, $26.95, 1401300294

30.

Truth & Beauty
Ann Patchett, Perennial, $13.95, 0060572159

31.

Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
H.W. Brands, Doubleday, $35, 0385507380

32.

Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom, Broadway, $12.95, 076790592X

33.

Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $13.95, 1400082773

34.

Gift From the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Pantheon, $9.95, 0679732411

35.

Cash: The Autobiography
Johnny Cash, HarperSanFrancisco, $7.99, 0061013579

36.

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard, Penguin Press, $26.95, 1594200726

37.

A Child Called "It"
Dave Pelzer, HCI, $9.95, 1558743669

38.

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $5.99, 0553577123

39.

For Laci
Sharon Rocha, Crown, $25.95, 0307338282

40.

Mark Twain: A Life
Ron Powers, Free Press, $35, 0743248996

41.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston, Atria, $14, 074349282X

42.

The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $14, 074324754X

43.

Naked
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316777730

44.

The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956 - 1966
Bob Dylan, S&S, $45, 0743228286

45.

Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
Charles Bracelen Flood, FSG, $27, 0374166005

46.

Two Lives
Vikram Seth, HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060599669

47.

Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $12.95, 0385486804

48.

What Remains
Carole Radziwill, Scribner, $25.95, 0743276949

49.

Founding Mothers
Cokie Roberts, Perennial, $14.95, 006009026X

50.

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Nathaniel Fick, Houghton Mifflin, $25, 0618556133