Based on sales for the week ending November 11, 2012

16. The Generals
Thomas E. Ricks, Penguin Press, $32.95, 9781594204043

17. How Music Works
David Byrne, McSweeney's, $32, 9781936365531

18. Both Flesh and Not
David Foster Wallace, Little Brown, $26.99, 9780316182379

19. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780618969029

20. Bruce
Peter Ames Carlin, Touchstone, $28, 9781439191828

21. The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe, Knopf, $25, 9780307594037

22. Darth Vader and Son
Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95, 9781452106557

23. Who I Am
Pete Townshend, Harper, $32.50, 9780062127242

24. How Children Succeed
Paul Tough, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547564654

25. Mortality
Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $22.99, 9781455502752

26. The Onion Book of Known Knowledge
Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316133265

27. Lost at Sea
Jon Ronson, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594631375

28. The Oath
Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385527200

29. Jerusalem: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ten Speed Press, $35, 9781607743941

30. I Declare
Joel Osteen, Faithwords, $21.99, 9781455516780

31. Leonardo and the Last Supper
Ross King, Walker & Company, $28, 9780802717054

32. Iron Curtain
Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, $35, 9780385515696

33. Underwater Dogs
Seth Casteel, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316227704

34. Joseph Anton
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $30, 9780812992786

35. Building Stories
Chris Ware, Pantheon, $50, 9780375424335

36. Plutocrats
Chrystia Freeland, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594204098

37. Quiet
Susan Cain, Crown, $26, 9780307352149

38. The Price of Politics
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30, 9781451651102

39. Rise to Greatness
David Von Drehle, Holt, $30, 9780805079708

40. Custer
Larry McMurtry, S&S, $35, 9781451626209

41. I'm Your Man
Sylvie Simmons, Ecco, $27.99, 9780061994982

42. Assholes: A Theory
Aaron James, Doubleday, $23.95, 9780385535656

43. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores
Jen Campbell, Overlook, $15, 9781468301281

44. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
Kurt Vonnegut, Delacorte, $35, 9780385343756

45. Living Beautifully
Pema Chodron, Shambhala, $22.95, 9781590309636

46. Bouchon Bakery
Thomas Keller, Sebastien Rouxel, Artisan, $50, 9781579654351

47. Proof of Heaven
Eben M.D. Alexander, S&S, $21.99, 9781451695182

48. Goodnight iPad
Ann Droyd, Blue Rider, $14.95, 9780399158568

49. It's Even Worse Than It Looks
Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein, Basic Books, $26, 9780465031337

50. Spillover
David Quammen, Norton, $28.95, 9780393066807