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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for October 25, 2012
Based on sales for the week ending October 21, 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. |
1/3 |
| 2. | America Again Stephen Colbert, Grand Central, $28.99, 9780446583978 Colbert's hilarious follow-up to I Am America (And So Can You!). |
4/3 |
| 3. | 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. |
2/7 |
| 4. | 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. |
3/31 |
| 5. | Waging Heavy Peace Neil Young, Blue Rider, $30, 9780399159466 An insightful view of the personal life and musical creativity of legendary musician Neil Young. |
6/4 |
| 6. | 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. |
8/3 |
| 7. | Who I Am Pete Townshend, Harper, $32.50, 9780062127242 A candid memoir by the legendary founding member of The Who. |
5/2 |
| 8. | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis- Debut 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. |
/1 |
| 9. | Joseph Anton Salman Rushdie, Random House, $30, 9780812992786 Rushdie's memoir of his life "underground" following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses. |
7/5 |
| 10. | How Music Works David Byrne, McSweeney's, $32, 9781936365531 Byrne's brainy, irresistible, and impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power. |
11/8 |
| 11. | 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. |
10/5 |
| 12. | 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. |
9/8 |
| 13. | Killing Lincoln Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070 A riveting historical narrative of the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
/39 |
| 14. | The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't- Debut Nate Silver, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594204111 Silver examines the world of prediction and how everything from the health of the global economy to the ability to fight terrorism is dependent on the quality of predictions. |
/1 |
| 15. | 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. |
12/10 |
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| 18. | Jerusalem: A Cookbook Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ten Speed Press, $35, 9781607743941 A collection of recipes exploring the flavors of Jerusalem from the bestselling author of Plenty. |
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