National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for September 26, 2013
Based on sales for the week ending September 22, 2013
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Orange Is the New Black
Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780812986181
Kerman's heartbreaking, hilarious, and at time enraging story of her year incarcerated is the basis of a new Netflix series.		 1/3
2. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307476074
A powerfully honest memoir of loss and recovery by the bestselling author of Tiny Beautiful Things.		 2/26
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.		 4/47
4. Quiet
Susan Cain, Broadway, $16, 9780307352156
Cain seeks to change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves.		 3/34
5. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2014
Old Farmer's Almanac, $7.95, 9781571986030
The annual almanac of weather, astrology, calendars, gardening tips, home remedies, and more.		 5/3
6. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $20, 9781451648546
Isaacson's exclusive biography is based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years.		 7/2
7. 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.		 11/7
8. 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.		 6/6
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.		 13/51
10. 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.		 10/25
11. How Children Succeed
Paul Tough, Mariner, $15.95, 9780544104402
Tough shows how researchers and educators are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character and reveals how this new knowledge can transform young people's lives.		 /6
12. How Music Works- Debut
David Byrne, McSweeney's, $20, 9781938073533
Byrne's brainy, irresistible, and impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.		 /1
13. 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.		 8/15
14. 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.		 9/8
15. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
A practical guide to personal freedom, outlining a way of life rooted in traditional Toltec beliefs.		 14/*
ON THE RISE
20. The Moth
Catherine Burns (Ed.), Hyperion, $15.99, 9781401311117
The celebrated storytelling phenomenon The Moth presents 50 spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from its extensive archive.		  

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