National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for May 11, 2016
Based on sales for the week ending May 8, 2016
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16.00, 9780802124739
H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.		 2/12
2. Dead Wake
Erik Larson, Broadway, $17.00, 9780307408877
The enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania by the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City.		 1/7
3. The Wright Brothers- Debut
David McCullough, S&S, $17.00, 9781476728759
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner McCullough tells the dramatic story of the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly.		 /1
4. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20.00, 9780143034759
The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton.		 3/25
5. 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.		 4/101
6. Barbarian Days
William Finnegan, Penguin, $17.00, 9780143109396
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer. Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for autobiography.		 6/2
7. 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.		 5/42
8. The Big Short
Michael Lewis, Norton, $15.95, 9780393353150
The highly entertaining look at the U.S. financial crisis by the author of Liar's Poker is now a major motion picture.		 7/20
9. 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.		 15/34
10. 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.		 14/41
11. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
Harvard Business School Press, $24.95, 9781633690196
Ten articles from the Harvard Business Review archive selected to help you boost your emotional skills--and your professional success.		 9/15
12. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761
The award-winning author of Americanah offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the 21st century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.		 13/44
13. Contagious: Why Things Catch On- Debut
Jonah Berger, S&S, $16.00, 9781451686586
Wharton marketing professor Berger explains why certain products and ideas become popular.		 /1
14. The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin, Harper, $15.99, 9780062414854
Rubin's inspiring account of her quest to live a happier life, now updated with new material.		 /9
15. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Kim Barker, Anchor, $15.95, 9781101973127
Journalist Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11 Afghanistan and Pakistan in this profound and darkly comic memoir.		 10/9
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17. The Quartet
Joseph J. Ellis, Vintage, $16.00, 9780804172486
Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Ellis tells the unexpected story of why the 13 colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.		  

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