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The Indie Biography and Memoir Bestseller List
The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.
Here is the Indie Biography and Memoir Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending November 17, 2024.
1. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
2. War
Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781668052273
3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
6. Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny, Knopf, $35, 9780593320969
7. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668017234
8. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
9. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $20, 9780525560739
10. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough, Random House, $32, 9780593733875
11. The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
Kelly Bishop, Gallery Books, $28.99, 9781668023778
12. Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance, Harper, $18.99, 9780062300553
13. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
Wright Thompson, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593299821
14. Melania
Melania Trump, Skyhorse, $40, 9781510782693
15. Lovely One: A Memoir
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Random House, $35, 9780593729908
16. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143
17. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Spiegel & Grau, $32, 9781954118461
18. Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras
Sarah Chapelle, St. Martin's Griffin, $35, 9781250906151
19. Brothers
Alex Van Halen, Harper, $32, 9780063265707
20. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
21. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper, $19.99, 9780062964663
22. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
23. Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, St. Martin's Press, $35, 9781250346414
24. Sonny Boy: A Memoir
Al Pacino, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593655115
25. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668048047