The Indie Biography & Memoir Bestseller List

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The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Indie Biography & Memoir Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending March 14, 2021. 
 

1. A Promised Land
Barack Obama, Crown, $45, 9781524763169

2. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258

3. Wintering
Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $24, 9780593189481

4. Four Hundred Souls
Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain (Eds.), One World, $32, 9780593134047

5. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion, Knopf, $23, 9780593318485

6. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713

7. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $30, 9780593139134

8. Just as I Am
Cicely Tyson, Harper, $28.99, 9780062931061

9. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18, 9780525560739

10. Becoming
Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50, 9781524763138

11. Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $28, 9780399588587

12. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198

13. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781982115852

14. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18, 9781501145254

15. The Doctors Blackwell
Janice P. Nimura, Norton, $27.95, 9780393635546

16. Quit Like a Woman
Holly Whitaker, Dial Press, $18, 9781984825070

17. The Book of Delights
Ross Gay, Algonquin Books, $23.95, 9781616207922

18. The Answer Is . . .
Alex Trebek, S&S, $26, 9781982157999

19. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504

20. A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell, Penguin, $18, 9780735225312

21. Mike Nichols: A Life
Mark Harris, Penguin, $35, 9780399562242

22. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26, 9780812993547

23. The Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power, Dey Street Books, $18.99, 9780062820709

24. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, One World, $17, 9780593133934

25. The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
Tove Ditlevsen, FSG, $30, 9780374602390