National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction
Based on sales for the week ending April 17, 2011
16. The Information
James Gleick, Pantheon, $29.95, 9780375423727
17. 1861: The Civil War Awakening
Adam Goodheart, Knopf, $28.95, 9781400040155
18. My Father's Daughter
Gwyneth Paltrow, Grand Central, $30, 9780446557313
19. Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama, FSG, $35, 9780374227340
20. Life
Keith Richards, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316034388
21. Fire Season
Philip Connors, Ecco Press, $24.99, 9780061859366
22. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594202841
23. A Covert Affair
Jennet Conant, S&S, $28, 9781439163528
24. This Life Is in Your Hands
Melissa Coleman, Harper, $25.99, 9780061958328
25. Townie
Andre Dubus III, Norton, $25.95, 9780393064667
26. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Harper, $24.99, 9780061732379
27. Great Soul
Joseph Lelyveld, Knopf, $28.95, 9780307269584
28. A Widow's Story
Joyce Carol Oates, Ecco, $27.99, 9780062015532
29. A Band of Misfits
Andrew Baggarly, Triumph, $19.95, 9781600785986
30. Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain, University of California Press, $34.95, 9780520267190
31. The 4-Hour Body
Timothy Ferriss, Crown , $27, 9780307463630
32. Moby-Duck
Donovan Hohn, Viking , $27.95, 9780670022199
33. Red
Sammy Hagar, It Books, $26.99, 9780062009289
34. Change Anything
Kerry Patterson, et al., Business Plus, $26.99, 9780446573917
35. The Bond
Wayne Pacelle, Morrow, $26.99, 9780061969782
36. Our Haggadah
Cokie Roberts, Steve Roberts, Harper, $19.99, 9780062018106
37. One Hundred Names for Love
Diane Ackerman, Norton, $26.95, 9780393072419
38. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $30, 9780679444329
39. Beautiful & Pointless
David Orr, Harper, $25.99, 9780061673450
40. A Reason to Believe
Deval Patrick, Broadway Books, $21.99, 9780767931120
41. Brothers, Rivals, Victors
Jonathan W. Jordan, New American Library, $28.95, 9780451232120
42. Sh*t My Dad Says
Justin Halpern, It Books, $15.99, 9780061992704
43. The Cloud Collector's Handbook
Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Chronicle, $14.95, 9780811875424
44. The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $30, 9781439107959
45. This Is Gonna Hurt
Nikki Sixx, Morrow, $29.99, 9780062061874
46. All My Friends Are Dead
Avery Monsen, Jory John, Chronicle, $9.95, 9780811874557
47. The Hidden Reality
Brian Greene, Knopf, $29.95, 9780307265630
48. Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Karen Armstrong, Knopf, $22.95, 9780307595591
49. The Big Thirst
Charles Fishman, Free Press, $26.99, 9781439102077
50. Founding Gardeners
Andrea Wulf, Knopf, $30, 9780307269904
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