The Indie Politics & Current Events Bestseller List

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The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here’s the Indie Politics & Current Events Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending November 3, 2019.

1. Blowout
Rachel Maddow, Crown, $30, 9780525575474

2. Catch and Kill
Ronan Farrow, Little Brown, $30, 9780316486637

3. Permanent Record
Edward Snowden, Metropolitan Books, $30, 9781250237231

4. The Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power, Dey Street Books, $29.99, 9780062820693

5. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288

6. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415

7. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $18, 9781476795935

8. The United States of Trump
Bill O'Reilly, Holt, $28, 9781250237224

9. On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $8.99, 9780804190114

10. On Fire
Naomi Klein, S&S, $27, 9781982129910

11. Dear America
Jose Antonio Vargas, Dey Street Books, $15.99, 9780062851345

12. The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates, Flatiron Books, $26.99, 9781250313577

13. We Are the Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer, FSG, $25, 9780374280000

14. Fear
Bob Woodward, S&S, $18, 9781501175527

15. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18, 9781501145254

16. Accessory to War
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang, Norton, $18.95, 9780393357462

17. Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse
John Lithgow, Chronicle Prism, $19.95, 9781452182759

18. The Soul of America
Jon Meacham, Random House, $20, 9780399589829

19. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells, Tim Duggan Books, $27, 9780525576709

20. Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas, Vintage, $16, 9781101972670

21. Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne, Penguin Press, $30, 9781984877710

22. Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law
James B. Stewart, Penguin Press, $30, 9780525559108

23. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Adrienne Maree Brown (Ed.), AK Press, $20, 9781849353267

24. The Point of It All
Charles Krauthammer, Crown Forum, $18, 9781984825506

25. Erosion: Essays of Undoing
Terry Tempest Williams, Sarah Crichton Books, $27, 9780374280062