National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for July 19, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending July 15, 2012
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| Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | 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. |
1/17 |
| 2. | 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. |
2/87 |
| 3. | Darth Vader and Son Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, $14.95, 9781452106557 Brown's delightful book presents the trials and joys of parenting through the lens of a galaxy far, far away. |
4/7 |
| 4. | Imagine Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780547386072 Lehrer's fascinating and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. |
5/17 |
| 5. | The Amateur Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596987852 Klein's view of the Obama administration's political inner workings. |
3/6 |
| 6. | Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake Anna Quindlen, Random House, $26, 9781400069347 Sharp insights and revealing observations that confirm Quindlen's status as America's laureate of real life. |
6/12 |
| 7. | Quiet Susan Cain, Crown, $26, 9780307352149 Cain seeks to change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves. |
8/23 |
| 8. | Let's Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $25.95, 9780399159015 Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka "The Bloggess," makes her literary debut. |
10/10 |
| 9. | Killing Lincoln Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070 A riveting historical narrative of the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
/29 |
| 10. | The Presidents Club Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy, S&S, $32.50, 9781439127704 A fascinating look at how U.S. presidents have worked together, and sometimes against each other, in and out of office. |
9/7 |
| 11. | 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! |
/45 |
| 12. | 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. |
12/31 |
| 13. | The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro, Knopf, $35, 9780679405078 Book four of Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson. |
7/11 |
| 14. | Barack Obama: The Story David Maraniss, S&S, $32.50, 9781439160404 An insightful biography of Barack Obama by one of our preeminent modern historians. |
/3 |
| 15. | 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. |
11/15 |
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| 20. | Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety Daniel Smith, S&S, $25, 9781439177303 Smith's honest and witty memoir of living with the disease of anxiety is a July 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
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