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Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
Hardcover Nonfiction list for May 17, 2012, for sales ending May 13, 2012. Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide. For an independent bookstore store near you, call 1-888-266-5736, or visit IndieBound.org. Online syndication provided by Objective Consulting, Inc. http://www.spiders.com/

  • 1. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
    by Robert A. Caro (Knopf, ISBN: 9780679405078); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 2 "Book four of Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson."

  • 2. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
    by Anna Quindlen (Random House, ISBN: 9781400069347); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 3 "Sharp insights and revealing observations that confirm Quindlen’s status as America’s laureate of real life."

  • 3. Drift
    by Rachel Maddow (Crown, ISBN: 9780307460981); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 7 "The popular talk show host examines the political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power."

  • 4. Wild
    by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307592736); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 8 "Strayed's powerfully honest memoir of loss and recovery is an April 2012 Indie Next List Great Read."

  • 5. I Am a Pole (and So Can You!)
    by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central, ISBN: 9781455523429); Weeks on List: 1 "The inimitable Colbert conquers new territory with his first children's book...for adults!"

  • 6. Prague Winter
    by Madeleine Albright (Harper, ISBN: 9780062030313); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 3 "A remarkably personal and historical new memoir by the former U.S. Secretary of State."

  • 7. Are You My Mother?
    by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN: 9780618982509); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 2 "A brilliant, new graphic memoir by the bestselling author of Fun Home."

  • 8. Imagine
    by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN: 9780547386072); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 8 "Lehrer's fascinating and revelatory look at the new science of creativity."

  • 9. Let's Pretend This Never Happened
    by Jenny Lawson (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, ISBN: 9780399159015); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 4 "Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka "The Bloggess," makes her literary debut."

  • 10. End This Depression Now!
    by Paul Krugman (Norton, ISBN: 9780393088779); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 2 "Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Krugman's ideas for a quick and strong economic recovery."

  • 11. Unbroken
    by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House, ISBN: 9781400064168); Last week: 11; Weeks on List: * "An unforgettable true story that is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit."

  • 12. Quiet
    by Susan Cain (Crown, ISBN: 9780307352149); Last week: 12; Weeks on List: 16 "Cain seeks to change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves."

  • 13. This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More: For
    by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin's, ISBN: 9780312563554); Weeks on List: 1 "The bestselling author of Running With Scissors explores how to survive the "un-survivable"."

  • 14. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice
    by Terry Tempest Williams (FSG, ISBN: 9780374288976); Weeks on List: 1 "Williams' lyrical and caring meditation on the mystery of her mother's journals."

  • 15. A Natural Woman
    by Carole King (Grand Central, ISBN: 9781455512614); Weeks on List: 3 "King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of all time."


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