National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Paperback Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending May 28, 2017

16. Lab Girl
Hope Jahren, Vintage, $16.00, 9781101873724

17. The Whispers of Angels
Annette Gail Smith, Harvest House, $5.99, 9780736912181

18. Strong Is the New Pretty
Kate T. Parker, Workman, $17.95, 9780761189138

19. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16.00, 9780804190107

20. Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson, Flatiron, $15.99, 9781250077028

21. Filthy Rich
James Patterson, John Connolly, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781455542642

22. Who Rules the World?
Noam Chomsky, Picador USA, $18.00, 9781250131089

23. Dark Money
Jane Mayer, Anchor, $17.00, 9780307947901

24. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20.00, 9780143034759

25. Valiant Ambition
Nathaniel Philbrick, Penguin, $18.00, 9780143110194

26. Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062301253

27. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16.00, 9781451697728

28. The Big Picture
Sean Carroll, Dutton, $17.00, 9781101984253

29. The Immortal Irishman
Timothy Egan, Mariner, $15.99, 9780544944831

30. The Apache Wars
Paul Andrew Hutton, Broadway, $17.00, 9780770435837

31. The Lost City of Z
David Grann, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525434658

32. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143125471

33. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310

34. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631492228

35. The Perfect Horse
Elizabeth Letts, Ballantine, $18.00, 9780345544827

36. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
Joshua Hammer, S&S, $16.00, 9781476777412

37. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal, Norton, $16.95, 9780393353662

38. The Trouble With Reality
Brooke Gladstone, Workman, $8.95, 9781523502387

39. The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $16.00, 9780375725609

40. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, The New Press, $19.95, 9781595586438

41. Drawdown
Paul Hawken (Ed.), Penguin, $22.00, 9780143130444

42. The Road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $16.95, 9780804172714

43. Why We March
, Artisan Publishers, $14.95, 9781579658281

44. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16.00, 9780812984965

45. Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $12.95, 9781608464661

46. Paper
Mark Kurlansky, Norton, $16.95, 9780393353709

47. How to Love
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781937006884

48. Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143109259

49. The Mother of All Questions
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $14.95, 9781608467402

50. Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062282712

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