National Indie Bestsellers

Bestseller List for October 16, 2019
Based on sales for the week ending October 13, 2019
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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.		 1/73
2. The Library Book
Susan Orlean, S&S, $16.99, 9781476740195
Orlean's book is a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution--and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries.		 3/2
3. Calypso
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $17.99, 9780316392426
Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best.		 2/18
4. The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre, Broadway Books, $18.00, 9781101904213
Macintyre tells the incredible true story of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.		 5/10
5. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $18.00, 9780399588198
Noah's compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime coming-of-age memoir is set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.		 6/32
6. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari, Spiegel & Grau, $18.00, 9780525512196
The bestselling author of Sapiens turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues.		 4/8
7. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $18.00, 9781476795935
In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.		 9/2
8. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness
Harvard Business Review 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.		 7/80
9. Braving the Wilderness
Brené Brown, Random House, $18.00, 9780812985818
A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture.		 8/7
10. 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.		 10/42
11. 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.		 12/25
12. These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore, Norton, $19.95, 9780393357424
Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history.		 14/2
13. How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $18.00, 9780735224155
Pollan investigates the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences.		 13/21
14. The Best American Food Writing 2019- Debut
Samin Nosrat, Sylvia Killingsworth (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99, 9781328662255
Bestselling author and James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year's finest writing about food and drink.		 /1
15. Killing the Rising Sun
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250237095
Killing the Rising Sun details the final moments of World War II like never before.		 11/4

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