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Bestseller List for September 11, 2008
Based on sales for the week ending September 7, 2008
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| Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List | |
| 1. | The Last Lecture Randy Pausch, Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401323257 The life-affirming "last lecture" by Pausch,then a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. | 1/22 |
| 2. | Goodnight Bush Erich Origen, Gan Golan, Little Brown, $14.99, 9780316040419 The Bush administration is roasted in this fun parody of the children's classic Goodnight Moon. | 2/14 |
| 3. | When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316143479 Yet another laugh-out-loud collection of essays by indie fave Sedaris. | 3/14 |
| 4. | What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $21, 9780307269195 Murakami's insightful memoir is an August Indie Next List selection. | 4/6 |
| 5. | The Secret Rhonda Byrne, Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95, 9781582701707 A collection of wisdom and philosophies to improve our daily lives. | 9/79 |
| 6. | The Obama Nation Jerome R. Corsi, Threshold, $28, 9781416598060 The new book by a co-author of Unfit for Command. | 5/5 |
| 7. | In Defense of Food Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $21.95, 9781594201455 Pollan's answers to the questions raised in his bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. | 7/36 |
| 8. | The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism - Debut Andrew J. Bacevich, Metropolitan, $24, 9780805088151 Bacevich's bold ideas for fixing our country's problems before it's too late. | /1 |
| 9. | Traffic Tom Vanderbilt, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307264787 A fascinating look at our driving habits. | 10/4 |
| 10. | Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea Chelsea Handler, Simon Spotlight, $24.95, 9781416954125 Hilarious essays by the author of My Horizontal Life. | /11 |
| 11. | The Way of the World Ron Suskind, Harper, $27.95, 9780061430626 How the U.S. lost its moral authority and how it can regain it. | 6/5 |
| 12. | My Stroke of Insight Jill Bolte Taylor, Viking, $24.95, 9780670020744 A Harvard-trained brain scientist's account of her recovery from a massive stroke. | 14/13 |
| 13. | The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria, Norton, $25.95, 9780393062359 Zakaria's follow-up to his bestseller, The Future of Freedom. | 8/18 |
| 14. | Fleeced Dick Morris, Eileen McGann, Harper, $26.95, 9780061547751 Morris and McGann contend that American taxpayers are routinely fleeced by the U.S. government. | /7 |
| 15. | The Wrecking Crew Thomas Frank, Metropolitan, $25, 9780805079883 The latest from the bestselling author of What’s the Matter With Kansas? | 12/5 |
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| 21. | How Fiction Works James Wood, FSG, $24, 9780374173401 A very entertaining and informative guide to writing and reading fiction. |