Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Dec. 1, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Perennial sellers are not actively tracked. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.




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Week List PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: NONFICTION
1 2 THE INNOCENT MAN, by John Grisham. (Delta, $16; Dell, $7.99.) Grisham's first nonfiction book concerns a man wrongly sentenced to death.
2 45 EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.) A writer's yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia.
3 44 THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $15.) A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
4 132 INTO THE WILD, by Jon Krakauer. (Anchor, $12.95.) A man's obsession with the wilderness ends in tragedy.
5 58 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. (Revell, $12.99.) A minister on the other worldly experience he had after an accident.
6 99 THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $15.) The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were moved constantly.
7 14 THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $16.) Tracking dinner from the soil to the plate, a journalist juggles appetite and conscience.
8 2 TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE, by Ann Rule. (Pocket, $7.99.) A tale of jealous rage emerges in the inquiry into the apparent suicide of a dentist's wife.
9* 173 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom. (Broadway, $13.95; Anchor, $6.99.) The author tells of his visits to his old college mentor. (†)
10 11 THE END OF AMERICA, by Naomi Wolf. (Chelsea Green, $13.95.) A defense of democracy and civil rights.
11* 10 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID, by Bill Bryson. (Broadway, $14.95.) A memoir of growing up in 1950s Des Moines.
12 19 THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Picador, $16.) An updated edition of the Times columnist's analysis of 21st-century economics and foreign policy.
13 172 THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
14 35 BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.99.) The importance of instinct to the workings of the mind.
15 13 THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, by Daniel J. Levitin. (Plume, $15.) A rocker-turned-neuroscientist on the connection between music and human nature.
16 9 I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. (Citadel, $12.95.) Reflections of a self-absorbed, drunken womanizer.
17 2 THIS I BELIEVE, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman with John Gregory and Viki Merrick. (Holt, $14.) Eighty essayists complete the thought begun in the book's title; based on the NPR series.
18 5 CULTURE WARRIOR, by Bill O'Reilly. (Broadway, $14.95.) The ''O'Reilly Factor'' host describes a culture war between traditionalists and secular progressives.
19* 4 THE PORTABLE ATHEIST, edited by Christopher Hitchens. (Da Capo, $17.50.) Dozens of readings for nonbelievers, by voices past and present.
20 8 A WHOLE NEW MIND, by Daniel H. Pink. (Riverhead, $15.) Why right-brainers will rule the future.
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