National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for October 8, 2015
Based on sales for the week ending October 4, 2015
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143125471
Brown tells the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.		 2/71
2. The Mindfulness Coloring Book
Emma Farrarons, Experiment, $9.95, 9781615192823
A fun and unique pocket-size coloring book designed to channel stress into relaxing, creative accomplishments.		 1/11
3. Yes Please
Amy Poehler, Dey Street, $16.99, 9780062268358
A hilarious and candid book by the popular Saturday Night Live alumna and star of Parks and Recreation.		 3/5
4. The Organized Mind
Daniel J. Levitin, Plume, $17.00, 9780147516312
In this book, bestselling author Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.		 4/5
5. You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16.00, 9780762447695
Sincero helps you understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to start living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.		 6/12
6. David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.00, 9780316204378
Gladwell draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.		 9/26
7. I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai, Back Bay, $16.00, 9780316322423
The remarkable memoir of a young Pakistani girl who refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.		 11/18
8. Black Mass
Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill, PublicAffairs, $15.99, 9781610395533
A riveting account of how James "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in U.S. history.		 5/8
9. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16.00, 9780812984965
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice.		 12/7
10. Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062218346
The bestselling authors of Freakonomics take us inside their thought processes and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally--to think, that is, like a Freak.		 10/13
11. One Nation
Ben Carson, Sentinel, $15.00, 9781595231222
Carson's ideas to help the people of our country work together to solve the nation's problems.		 8/5
12. #Girlboss- Debut
Sophia Amoruso, Portfolio, $16.00, 9781591847939
Amoruso's fascinating story shows success is about trusting your instincts and following your gut, knowing which rules to follow and which to break.		 /1
13. A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson, Broadway, $15.99, 9781101905494
Bryson's modern classic of travel literature is now a major motion picture.		 7/10
14. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory- Debut
Caitlin Doughty, Norton, $15.95, 9780393351903 (An Indies Introduce Title)
Doughty--a young mortician--goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.		 /1
15. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Jeff Hobbs, Scribner, $16.00, 9781476731919
A riveting biography of a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets.		 13/10
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17. Food: A Love Story
Jim Gaffigan, Three Rivers Press, $15.00, 9780804140430
Feast along with America's favorite food comedian as he digs into his specialty: stuffing his face.		  

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