National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for September 19, 2018
Based on sales for the week ending September 16, 2018
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  Trade Paperback Nonfiction Last Week/
Weeks on List
1. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99, 9780062316110
A groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be human.		 1/18
2. Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $16.99, 9780060899226
In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain tells the wild-but-true tales of his life in the culinary trade.		 2/14
3. 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.		 3/165
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307742483
Grann's twisting and haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.		 5/24
5. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $16.99, 9780062300553
By a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.		 4/20
6. Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99, 9780062464347
The bestselling author of Sapiens turns his focus toward humanity's future.		 10/2
7. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18.00, 9781501145254
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first book since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 is a witty, engaging, and serious collection of writings and speeches.		 12/5
8. Shoe Dog
Phil Knight, Scribner, $20.00, 9781501135927
Nike founder Knight shares the inside story of one of the world's most iconic and profitable brands.		 7/20
9. Black Klansman
Ron Stallworth, Flatiron, $17.99, 9781250299055
Black Klansman is an amazing true story that reads like a crime thriller, a searing portrait of a divided America and the extraordinary heroes who dare to fight back. Now a major motion picture.		 6/7
10. Beautiful Boy
David Sheff, Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books, $16.99, 9781328974716
David Sheff describes his journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Now a major motion picture.		 14/2
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.		 8/97
12. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness
Harvard Business School Press, $24.95, 9781633694361
Ten articles from the Harvard Business Review to help you build your emotional strength and resilience--and to achieve high performance.		 9/26
13. The Woman Who Smashed Codes
Jason Fagone, Dey Street Books, $16.99, 9780062430519
The incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived--an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II.		 11/2
14. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16.00, 9780807047415
DiAngelo explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.		 /3
15. Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)- Debut
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $15.95, 9781608469468
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit focuses her attention on battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time.		 /1

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