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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for April 12, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending April 8, 2012
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| Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Drift Rachel Maddow, Crown, $25, 9780307460981 The popular talk show host examines the political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power. |
1/2 |
| 2. | Wild Cheryl Strayed, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307592736 Strayed's powerfully honest memoir of loss and recovery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
2/3 |
| 3. | Imagine Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780547386072 Lehrer's fascinating and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. |
3/3 |
| 4. | 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. |
5/6 |
| 5. | New American Haggadah Jonathan Safran Foer (Ed.), Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316069861 Jonathan Safran Foer has orchestrated a new way of experiencing and understanding one of our oldest, most timeless, and sacred stories, with a new translation of the traditional text by Nathan Englander. |
15/2 |
| 6. | Quiet Susan Cain, Crown, $26, 9780307352149 Cain seeks to change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves. |
4/11 |
| 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. |
7/73 |
| 8. | 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. |
12/24 |
| 9. | Some Assembly Required Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594488412 By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Lamott's latest is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family. |
8/3 |
| 10. | The Big Miss Hank Haney, Crown Archetype, $26, 9780307985989 Haney's candid and insightful account of his tumultuous six-years coaching Tiger Woods. |
6/2 |
| 11. | 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. |
13/23 |
| 12. | 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. |
11/9 |
| 13. | The Blood Sugar Solution Mark Hyman M.D., Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316127370 Hyman's solutions to weight loss, disease prevention, and feeling better than ever. |
/2 |
| 14. | 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. |
10/4 |
| 15. | 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! |
14/43 |
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| 16. | The Social Conquest of Earth Edward Osborne Wilson, Liveright, $27.95, 9780871404138 Wilson's groundbreaking new look at the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earth. |
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