The Indie Politics & Current Events Bestseller List

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Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, for the eight-week period ending November 10, 2009.

1.

Arguing With Idiots
Glenn Beck, Threshold Editions, $29.99, 9781416595014

2.

Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307267146

3.

Glenn Beck's Common Sense
Glenn Beck, Threshold Editions, $11.99, 9781439168578

4.

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel, FSG, $25, 9780374180652

5.

In the President's Secret Service
Ronald Kessler, Crown, $26, 9780307461353

6.

Republican Gomorrah
Max Blumenthal, Nation, $25, 9781568583983

7.

Culture of Corruption
Michelle Malkin, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596981096

8.

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Paul Krugman, Norton, $16.95, 9780393337808

9.

The Forever War
Dexter Filkins, Vintage, $15, 9780307279446

10.

Liberty and Tyranny
Mark R. Levin, Threshold Editions, $25, 9781416562856

11.

End the Fed
Ron Paul, Grand Central, $21.99, 9780446549196

12.

Empire of Illusion
Chris Hedges, Nation, $24.95, 9781568584379

13.

The Audacity to Win
David Plouffe, Viking, $27.95, 9780670021338

14.

The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria, Norton, $15.95, 9780393334807

15.

Our Choice
Al Gore, Rodale, $26.99, 9781594867347

16.

The Death of Conservatism
Sam Tanenhaus, Random House, $17, 9781400068845

17.

Catastrophe
Dick Morris, Eileen McGann, Harper, $26.99, 9780061771040

18.

The Battle for America, 2008
Daniel J. Balz, Haynes Bonner Johnson, Viking, $29.95, 9780670021116

19.

No Impact Man
Colin Beavan, FSG, $25, 9780374222888

20.

The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein, Picador, $16, 9780312427993

21.

The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307237705

22.

Factory Girls
Leslie T. Chang, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780385520188

23.

The Lemon Tree
Sandy Tolan, Bloomsbury, $15.95, 9781596913431

24.

Whatever It Takes
Paul Tough, Mariner, $14.95, 9780547247960

25.

The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, Picador, $16, 9780312425074