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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for October 18, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending October 14, 2012
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| Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | Killing Kennedy Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805096668 A look at the shocking events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. |
1/2 |
| 2. | No Easy Day Mark Owen, Dutton, $26.95, 9780525953722 A first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid by a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. |
2/6 |
| 3. | 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. |
5/30 |
| 4. | America Again Stephen Colbert, Grand Central, $28.99, 9780446583978 Colbert's hilarious follow-up to I Am America (And So Can You!). |
3/2 |
| 5. | Who I Am: A Memoir- Debut Pete Townshend, Harper, $32.50, 9780062127242 A candid memoir by the legendary founding member of The Who. |
/1 |
| 6. | Waging Heavy Peace Neil Young, Blue Rider, $30, 9780399159466 An insightful view of the personal life and musical creativity of legendary musician Neil Young. |
4/3 |
| 7. | Joseph Anton Salman Rushdie, Random House, $30, 9780812992786 Rushdie's memoir of his life "underground" following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses. |
6/4 |
| 8. | The End of Your Life Book Club Will Schwalbe, Knopf, $25, 9780307594037 Schwalbe's moving memoir of loss and love is an October 2012 Indie Next List Great Read. |
10/2 |
| 9. | Mortality Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $22.99, 9781455502752 Hitchens, who died in December 2011, poignantly describes the torments of illness and how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. |
8/7 |
| 10. | How Children Succeed Paul Tough, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780547564654 Tough examines how character plays a role in why some children succeed and others fail. |
11/4 |
| 11. | How Music Works David Byrne, McSweeney's, $32, 9781936365531 Byrne's brainy, irresistible, and impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power. |
12/7 |
| 12. | I Could Pee on This Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95, 9781452110585 In this hilarious book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, Marciuliano helps cats unlock their creative potential and explain their odd behavior to ignorant humans. |
7/9 |
| 13. | 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. |
14/20 |
| 14. | Guinness World Records 2013 Guinness, $28.95, 9781904994879 The latest incarnation of the bestselling annual with thousands of new and classic records. |
/4 |
| 15. | The Oath Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385527200 Toobin's insightful look at the ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration. |
9/4 |
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| 17. | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780618969029 Egan tells the riveting story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history and the brilliant man who created them. |
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