National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction
Based on sales for the week ending February 20, 2011
16. J.D. Salinger: A Life
Kenneth Slawenski, Random House, $27, 9781400069514
17. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $30, 9780679444329
18. Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780307238764
19. Little Princes
Conor Grennan, Morrow, $25.99, 9780061930058
20. Decision Points
George W. Bush, Crown, $35, 9780307590619
21. Townie: A Memoir
Andre Dubus III, Norton, $25.95, 9780393064667
22. The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $30, 9781439107959
23. Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Peggy Orenstein, Harper, $25.99, 9780061711527
24. How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
Stanley Fish, Harper, $19.99, 9780061840548
25. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book)
Jon Stewart, Grand Central, $27.99, 9780446579223
26. Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser, Penguin, $29.95, 9781594202773
27. I Beat the Odds
Michael Oher, Gotham, $26, 9781592406128
28. The Wave
Susan Casey, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780767928847
29. The Investment Answer
Daniel C. Goldie, Business Plus, $18, 9781455503308
30. Wild Bill Donovan
Douglas Waller, Free Press, $30, 9781416567448
31. Bird Cloud
Annie Proulx, Scribner, $26, 9780743288804
32. Griftopia
Matt Taibbi, Spiegel & Grau, $26, 9780385529952
33. I Remember Nothing
Nora Ephron, Knopf, $22.95, 9780307595607
34. Born to Run
Christopher McDougall, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307266309
35. The Pioneer Woman
Ree Drummond, Morrow, $25.99, 9780061997167
36. The Next Decade
George Friedman, Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385532945
37. Examined Lives
James Miller, FSG, $28, 9780374150853
38. Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown , $27.99, 9780316017923
39. The Tell-Tale Brain
V.S. Ramachandran, Norton, $26.95, 9780393077827
40. Atlantic
Simon Winchester, Harper, $27.99, 9780061702587
41. Neptune's Inferno
James D. Hornfischer, Bantam, $30, 9780553806700
42. Colonel Roosevelt
Edmund Morris, Random House, $35, 9780375504877
43. Decoded
Jay-Z, Spiegel & Grau, $35, 9781400068920
44. All My Friends Are Dead
Avery Monsen, Jory John, Chronicle, $9.95, 9780811874557
45. Hero
Michael Korda, Harper, $36, 9780061712616
46. The Last Boy
Jane Leavy, Harper, $27.99, 9780060883522
47. Hot
Mark Hertsgaard, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25, 9780618826124
48. As Always, Julia
Joan Reardon (Ed.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780547417714
49. Veganist
Kathy Freston, Weinstein Books, $25, 9781602861336
50. The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss, Crown, $22, 9780307465351
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