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Bestseller List for February 6, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending February 2, 2014
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Hardcover Nonfiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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1. |
Duty Robert M. Gates, Knopf, $35, 9780307959478 Gates' candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
1/3 |
2. |
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book Diane Muldrow, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307977618 A humorous guide to life for grown-ups by a longtime editor of the iconic Little Golden Books. |
3/13 |
3. |
David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $29, 9780316204361 In his new bestseller, Gladwell draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us. |
2/18 |
4. |
The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown, Viking, $28.95, 9780670025817 Brown tells the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. |
8/34 |
5. |
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062236678 Patchett's resonant portrait of her life is a November 2013 Indie Next List Great Read. |
4/12 |
6. |
My Age of Anxiety Scott Stossel, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269874 A revelatory and moving account of Stossel's struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition. |
11/4 |
7. |
Little Failure Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $27, 9780679643753 Shteyngart's candid, witty, and deeply poignant account of his life so far is a January 2014 Indie Next List Great Read. |
10/4 |
8. |
I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai, Little Brown, $26, 9780316322409 The remarkable memoir of a young Pakistani girl who refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. |
5/17 |
9. |
Grain Brain David Perlmutter, Little Brown, $27, 9780316234801 Perlmutter describes the negative effects that wheat, sugar, and carbs have on the brain, and provides a drug-free remedy. |
6/6 |
10. |
Things That Matter Charles Krauthammer, Crown Forum, $28, 9780385349178 A collection of Krauthammer's columns and essays written over the last three decades. |
9/15 |
11. |
The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $40, 9781416547860 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Kearns Goodwin's highly anticipated new book is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, the tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. |
7/13 |
12. |
My Life in Middlemarch- Debut Rebecca Mead, Crown, $25, 9780307984760 Mead revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and tells a singular story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. |
/1 |
13. |
Killing Jesus Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805098549 The latest by the bestselling authors of Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy. |
/17 |
14. |
One Summer: America, 1927 Bill Bryson, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780767919401 In his latest, Bryson transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. |
12/18 |
15. |
Stitches Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $17.95, 9781594632587 Lamott's wise and compassionate exploration of how we can make sense of life's chaos. |
14/13 |
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