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National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for March 7, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending March 3, 2013
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| Hardcover Nonfiction | Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. | My Beloved World Sonia Sotomayor, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307594884 An autobiography by the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. |
1/7 |
| 2. | 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. |
3/28 |
| 3. | Help, Thanks, Wow Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $17.95, 9781594631290 Lamott writes about three simple prayers she believes are essential to coming through tough times and the hardships of daily life. |
2/16 |
| 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. |
4/49 |
| 5. | Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us- Debut Michael Moss, Random House, $28, 9781400069804 Pulitzer Prize-winner Moss exposes the story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the obesity epidemic. |
/1 |
| 6. | 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. |
9/23 |
| 7. | Life Code Phillip C. McGraw, Bird Street Books, $26, 9780985462734 Dr. Phil McGraw tells readers the ugly truth about the users, abusers, and overall "bad guys" we all have in our lives. |
7/3 |
| 8. | 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. |
/13 |
| 9. | Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice- Debut Kevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy, Norton, $26.95, 9780393087727 An unforgettable look at the career of gangster Whitey Bulger and the epic manhunt for him. |
/1 |
| 10. | The Future Al Gore, Random House, $30, 9780812992946 A frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come, by the former vice president and author of An Inconvenient Truth. |
5/5 |
| 11. | The World Until Yesterday Jared M. Diamond, Viking, $36, 9780670024810 Diamond provides a mesmerizing, firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years -- a past that has mostly vanished -- and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. |
11/9 |
| 12. | Going Clear Lawrence Wright, Knopf, $28.95, 9780307700667 A look into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower. |
6/7 |
| 13. | Detroit: An American Autopsy Charlie LeDuff, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594205347 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff looks at his hometown of Detroit for clues to its fate, his family's, and his own. |
15/3 |
| 14. | The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook Deb Perelman, Knopf, $35, 9780307595652 A collection of celebrated food blogger Perelman's recipes for any night of the week, or for the most special occasions. |
/13 |
| 15. | Francona Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780547928173 The former Red Sox manager opens up for the first time about his tenure in Boston. |
8/6 |