National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Paperback Nonfiction

Based on sales for the week ending September 12, 2021

16. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell, Melville House, $17.99, 9781612198552

17. How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735224155

18. Having and Being Had
Eula Biss, Riverhead Books, $17.00, 9780525537465

19. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Anchor, $16.95, 9780307279286

20. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $15.99, 9780060959470

21. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16.99, 9781451697728

22. In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $16.00, 9781644450383

23. The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes
Sam Sifton, Ten Speed Press, $28.00, 9781984858474

24. Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $17.00, 9780802158673

25. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631494536

26. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
Matt Kracht, Chronicle, $15.95, 9781452174037

27. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Beacon Press, $16.00, 9780807057834

28. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372

29. Agent Sonya: The Spy Next Door
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $18.00, 9780593136324

30. See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
Valarie Kaur, One World, $18.00, 9780525509110

31. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735223035

32. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker, Anchor, $17.00, 9780525562641

33. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press, $17.95, 9781942094470

34. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, FSG, $18.00, 9780374533557

35. The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $17.00, 9780143129257

36. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong, One World, $18.00, 9781984820389

37. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
Sarah Smarsh, Scribner, $16.00, 9781982157296

38. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Sonia Purnell, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735225312

39. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $16.99, 9780060936228

40. Becoming
Michelle Obama, Crown, $18.99, 9781524763145

41. The Library Book
Susan Orlean, S&S, $16.99, 9781476740195

42. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
Jon Meacham, Random House , $18.99, 9781984855046

43. Meditations: A New Translation
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11.00, 9780812968255

44. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Emily Ladau, Ten Speed Press, $16.00, 9781984858979

45. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Jessica Bruder, Norton, $16.95, 9780393356311

46. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Crown, $17.00, 9780525575337

47. We Do This 'til We Free Us
Mariame Kaba, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9781642595253

48. Know My Name
Chanel Miller, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735223721

49. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932

50. Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff, Avid Reader Press/S&S, $18.00, 9781501182211