National Indie Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

Bestseller List for October 16, 2014
Based on sales for the week ending October 12, 2014
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  Hardcover Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham, Random House, $28, 9780812994995
A hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays by the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls.
2/2
2. Killing Patton
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30, 9780805096682
Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of WWII and recounts the events surrounding the death of General George S. Patton.
1/3
3. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End- Debut
Atul Gawande, Metropolitan , $26, 9780805095159
Practicing surgeon Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.
/1
4. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution- Debut
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781476708690
Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet looks at the history of the digital revolution and is an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.
/1
5. Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace- Debut
Leon Panetta, Penguin Press, $36, 9781594205965
A revelatory autobiography by the former defense secretary and CIA director.
/1
6. 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.
3/49
7. What If?
Randall Munroe, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 9780544272996
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
4/6
8. How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, III, Jonathan Rosenberg, Grand Central, $30, 9781455582341
An entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Schmidt and Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company.
7/3
9. What I Know for Sure
Oprah Winfrey, Flatiron, $24.99, 9781250054050
A collection of O, The Oprah Magazine's widely popular "What I Know for Sure" columns, revised and updated.
5/6
10. Rebel Yell
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $35, 9781451673289
Gwynne's thrilling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic American hero.
11/2
11. This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein, S&S, $30, 9781451697384
Klein explains why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
6/4
12. 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.
9/54
13. World Order
Henry Kissinger, Penguin Press, $36, 9781594206146
Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era, Kissinger offers a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder.
8/5
14. Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $28.99, 9780062218339
The bestselling authors of Freakonomics take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally-to think, that is, like a Freak.
14/22
15. Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Crown Business, $27, 9780804139298
Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation.
13/4
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16. Stop the Coming Civil War
Michael Savage, Center Street, $26, 9781455582433
The conservative talk-show host explains why he believes the political split between the right and left is possibly irreparable.
 

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