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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for March 15, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending March 10, 2012
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| Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo, Random House, $27, 9781400067558 Boo's brilliant work of narrative nonfiction tells the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in the "unequal city" of Mumbai. |
1/5 |
| 2. | Quiet Susan Cain, Crown, $26, 9780307352149 Cain seeks to change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves. |
3/7 |
| 3. | Bringing Up Bébé Pamela Druckerman, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594203336 Druckerman reveals the secrets behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. |
5/5 |
| 4. | Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539 Isaacson's exclusive biography of Steve Jobs is based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years. |
2/20 |
| 5. | Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation- Debut Elaine Pagels, Viking, $27.95, 9780670023349 A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the author of Beyond Belief. |
/1 |
| 6. | The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg, Random House, $28, 9781400069286 An exploration into the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. |
10/2 |
| 7. | Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168 An unforgettable true story that is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. |
6/69 |
| 8. | American Sniper Chris Kyle, et al., Morrow, $26.99, 9780062082350 An eyewitness account of war by a Navy SEAL who is the most lethal sniper in United States military history. |
9/8 |
| 9. | The End of Illness David B. Agus, M.D., Free Press, $26, 9781451610178 A bold call for all of us to become our own personal health advocates, and a dramatic departure from orthodox thinking. |
7/8 |
| 10. | Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $30, 9780374275631 Kahneman takes readers on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two "systems" that drive the way people think. |
4/16 |
| 11. | House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East- Debut Anthony Shadid, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780547134666 Shadid's memoir is an unforgettable meditation on war, exile, rebirth, and the universal yearning for home. |
/1 |
| 12. | Killing Lincoln Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070 A riveting historical narrative of the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
11/24 |
| 13. | Goodnight iPad Ann Droyd, Blue Rider, $14.95, 9780399158568 This book, which is made of paper, is a reminder for the child in all of us to power down at the end of the day. |
15/19 |
| 14. | Go the F**k to Sleep Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic, $14.95, 9781617750250 Beautiful, subversive, and very funny--a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children! |
14/40 |
| 15. | In the Garden of Beasts Erik Larson, Crown, $26, 9780307408846 Larson's vivid portrait of Berlin during the early years of Hitler's reign. |
8/44 |
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| 17. | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson, Grove Press, $25, 9780802120106 Winterson's memoir of her search for belonging, love, and identity is a March 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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