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National Indie Bestsellers
Bestseller List for August 29, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending August 25, 2013
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| Trade Paperback Nonfiction |
Last Week/ Weeks on List |
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| 1. |
Wild Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307476074 A powerfully honest memoir of loss and recovery by the bestselling author of Tiny Beautiful Things. |
1/22 |
| 2. |
Orange Is the New Black Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780385523394 Kerman's heartbreaking, hilarious, and at time enraging story of her year incarcerated is the basis of a new Netflix series. |
2/3 |
| 3. |
Proof of Heaven Eben Alexander, M.D., S&S, $15.99, 9781451695199 Noted neurosurgeon Alexander's fascinating account of his return from a very deep coma. |
3/43 |
| 4. |
Quiet Susan Cain, Broadway, $16, 9780307352156 Cain seeks to change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves. |
4/30 |
| 5. |
Brain on Fire Susannah Cahalan, S&S, $16, 9781451621389 Cahalan's astonishing true story of her inexplicable descent into madness and the brilliant, lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. |
6/3 |
| 6. |
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $16, 9780374533557 Kahneman takes readers on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two "systems" that drive the way people think. |
7/21 |
| 7. |
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher Timothy Egan, Mariner, $15.95, 9780544102767 Egan tells the riveting story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history and the brilliant man who created them, Edward Curtis. |
14/2 |
| 8. |
Waging Heavy Peace Neil Young, Plume, $18, 9780142180310 An insightful view of the personal life and musical creativity of legendary musician Neil Young. |
8/4 |
| 9. |
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) Mindy Kaling, Three Rivers, $14, 9780307886279 Hilarious essays from the Emmy-nominated writer and actress. |
11/47 |
| 10. |
Elsewhere Richard Russo, Vintage, $15, 9780307949769 Bestselling novelist Richard Russo's memoir of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. |
5/4 |
| 11. |
Outliers Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316017930 The author of Blink and The Tipping Point looks at what makes some people successful--and others not. |
10/60 |
| 12. |
Let's Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson, Berkley, $16, 9780425261019 Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka "The Bloggess," makes her literary debut with her "Mostly True Memoir." |
/24 |
| 13. |
Hallucinations Oliver Sacks, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307947437 Using hallucinations reported by his patients and his own experiences, Sacks shows why the potential for hallucinations is present in us all. |
9/8 |
| 14. |
The End of Your Life Book Club Will Schwalbe, Vintage, $15, 9780307739780 Schwalbe's moving memoir of loss and love is now available in paperback. |
/11 |
| 15. |
Wreck This Journal Keri Smith, Perigee, $15, 9780399161940 Readers who've ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal will discover a new way to escape the fear of the blank page. |
15/13 |