The Indie Biography and Memoir Bestseller List

Based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, for the eight-week period ending August 24, 2010.

1. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $16, 9780143118428

2. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $16, 9780143038252

3. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Rhoda Janzen, Holt, $14, 9780805092257

4. Medium Raw
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $26.99, 9780061718946

5. Lit
Mary Karr, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780060596996

6. Empire of the Summer Moon
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $27.5, 9781416591054

7. Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $16, 9780812977615

8. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542

9. Where Men Win Glory
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307386045

10. Committed
Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking, $26.95, 9780670021659

11. Manhood for Amateurs
Michael Chabon, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061490194

12. Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $26.99, 9780446540339

13. Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307387172

14. Spoken From the Heart
Laura Bush, Scribner, $30, 9781439155202

15. Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $16, 9780812973013

16. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780060852566

17. The Girls From Ames
Jeffrey Zaslow, Gotham, $16, 9781592405329

18. Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780060899226

19. My Horizontal Life
Chelsea Handler, Bloomsbury, $14.95, 9781582346182

20. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali, Three Rivers, $12, 9780307589675

21. Night
Elie Wiesel, FSG, $9.95, 9780374500016

22. The Happiness Project
Gretchen Craft Rubin, Harper, $25.99, 9780061583254

23. Seaworthy
Linda Greenlaw, Viking, $25.95, 9780670021925

24. Resilience
Elizabeth Edwards, Broadway, $15, 9780767931564

25. Farm City
Novella Carpenter, Penguin, $16, 9780143117285