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Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers (Book Sense)



Sh*t My Dad Says 
   
    by Justin Halpern (It Books, ISBN: 9780061992704); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 16 "Halpern's hilarious and touching portrait of his relationship with his father."


Let's Take the Long Way Home 
   
    by Gail Caldwell (Random House, ISBN: 9781400067381); Last week: 11; Weeks on List: 3 "Caldwell's heartwarming new memoir is an August Indie Next List Great Read."


The Power 
   
    by Rhonda Byrne (Atria, ISBN: 9781439181782); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 2 "Byrne's follow-up to the international bestseller The Secret."


Women Food and God 
   
    by Geneen Roth (Scribner, ISBN: 9781416543077); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 23 "A penetrating and irreverent "guide for life" by the author of When Food Is Love."


Packing for Mars 
   
    by Mary Roach (Norton, ISBN: 9780393068474); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 4 "A very entertaining look at space travel by the bestselling author of Bonk."


Born to Run 
   
    by Christopher McDougall (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307266309); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: * "A look at the Tarahumara Indians and their practice of the lost art of distance running."


Medium Raw 
   
    by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco, ISBN: 9780061718946); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 12 "Bourdain's eagerly awaited follow-up to Kitchen Confidential."


Empire of the Summer Moon 
   
    by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner, ISBN: 9781416591054); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 9 "A vivid historical account of the 40-year battle between the Comanches and white settlers for control of the American West."


Four Fish 
   
    by Paul Greenberg (Penguin Press, ISBN: 9781594202568); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 5 "Greenberg examines the ways fish gets to our dinner tables and how to make sustainable seafood the rule rather than the exception."


The Big Short 
   
    by Michael Lewis (Norton, ISBN: 9780393072235); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: 24 "A highly entertaining look at the U.S. financial crisis by the bestselling author of Liar's Poker and Moneyball."


Committed 
   
    by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking, ISBN: 9780670021659); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: 23 "Gilbert's follow-up to her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love is a January Indie Next List Great Read."


Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. 
   
    by Sam Wasson (Harper, ISBN: 9780061774157); Last week: 15; Weeks on List: 5 "Wasson's fascinating look at Audrey Hepburn and the filming of Breakfast at Tiffany's."


Outliers 
   
    by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316017923); Last week: 13; Weeks on List: * "The author of Blink and The Tipping Point looks at what makes some people successful--and others not."


The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam 
   
    by Eliza Griswold (FSG, ISBN: 9780374273187); Weeks on List: 1 "A riveting investigation of the fault line between Christian and Muslim worlds."


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 
   
    by Rebecca Skloot (Crown, ISBN: 9781400052172); Weeks on List: 29 "A fascinating look at the world's first "immortal" human cells grown in culture to be used in medical research."
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