The Indie Biography & Memoir Bestseller List

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 22, 2018.

1. How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $28, 9781594204227

2. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504

3. Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $16.99, 9780060899226

4. A Higher Loyalty
James Comey, Flatiron, $29.99, 9781250192455

5. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara, Harper, $27.99, 9780062319784

6. Shoe Dog
Phil Knight, Scribner, $20, 9781501135927

7. Theft by Finding
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $17.99, 9780316154734

8. The Restless Wave
John McCain, Mark Salter, S&S, $30, 9781501178009

9. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $28, 9780399588174

10. Hunger
Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062420718

11. The World as It Is
Benjamin J. Rhodes, Random House, $30, 9780525509356

12. I Can’t Make This Up
Kevin Hart, Atria, $17, 9781501155574

13. Pops
Michael Chabon, Harper, $19.99, 9780062834621

14. The Stranger in the Woods
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $16, 9781101911532

15. Robin
Dave Itzkoff, Holt, $30, 9781627794244

16. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780812984965

17. Facts and Fears
James R. Clapper, Trey Brown, Viking, $30, 9780525558644

18. The Sun Does Shine
Anthony Ray Hinton, St. Martin’s, $26.99, 9781250205797

19. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471

20. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger, Sentinel, $9.99, 9780143131830

21. Vacationland
John Hodgman, Penguin, $16, 9780735224827

22. I Love Capitalism!
Ken Langone, Portfolio, $28, 9780735216242

23. Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781501139154

24. Tip of the Iceberg
Mark Adams, Dutton, $28, 9781101985106

25. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20, 9780143034759