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Best Sellers

September 19, 2010

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Inside the List

Tony Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” may have zoomed to No. 3 on the hardcover nonfiction list, but another Englishman has been hogging most of the headlines.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

Browse Past Lists

This Week    Last Week Paperback Nonfiction Weeks
on List
1 1 EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15.) A writer’s yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia. 187
2 2 THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $16.) A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 188
3 4 THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $15.) The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she was constantly on the move. (†) 183
4 3 WHERE MEN WIN GLORY, by Jon Krakauer. (Anchor, $15.95.) The story of Pat Tillman and the Army’s cover-up of his death by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan. 6
5 16 OPEN, by Andre Agassi. (Vintage, $15.95.) The tennis champion’s autobiography. 4
6 6 MENNONITE IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS, by Rhoda Janzen. (Holt, $14.) Life’s detours send Janzen back to the Mennonite home where she was raised. 21
7 5 MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler. (Bloomsbury, $14.95.) A memoir of one-night stands. 97
8 7 ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $16.) Humorous personal essays from the comedian. 36
9 8 FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) A scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to nearly everything. 54
10 * 9 THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.99.) A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads. 309
11 11 THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $16.) Tracking food from soil to plate. 144
12 14 HALF THE SKY, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. (Vintage, $15.95.) A case for viewing women’s equality as the "paramount moral challenge" of our era. 13
13 * 17 SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME, by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent. (Nelson, $14.99.) The unlikely friendship between a homeless drifter and a successful art dealer who meet at a shelter in Texas. 92
14 10 ZEITOUN, by Dave Eggers. (Vintage, $15.95.) The travails of a Syrian-American man and his family after Hurricane Katrina. 12
15 13 BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15.99.) Instinct in the workings of the mind. 151
16 18 I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. (Citadel/Kensington, $15.95.) Life as a self-absorbed, drunken womanizer. 149
17 19 THE BLACK SWAN, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House, $17.) The hubris of predictions — and our perpetual surprise when the not-predicted happens. 17
18 * JUSTICE, by Michael J. Sandel. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $15.) A Harvard professor seeks to bring implicit arguments about justice into the open. 1
19 IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, $15.) A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” 45
20 15 LIT, by Mary Karr. (Harper Perennial, $14.99.) A poet’s memoir of motherhood, troubled marriage, alcoholism and depression; a sequel to "The Liars’ Club." 10

Also Selling

  1. A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  2. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell)
  3. CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, by Michelle Malkin (Regnery)
  4. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco/HarperCollins)
  5. A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, by Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial)
  6. PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL, by Dan Ariely (Harper Perennial)
  7. LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson (Back Bay/Little, Brown)
  8. LORDS OF FINANCE, by Liaquat Ahamed (Penguin)
  9. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin (HarperCollins)
  10. IN THE PRESIDENT’S SECRET SERVICE, by Ronald Kessler (Three Rivers)
  11. LIAR'S POKER, by Michael Lewis (Norton)
  12. THE GOOD SOLDIERS, by David Finkel (Picador)
  13. HORSE SOLDIERS, by Doug Stanton (Scribner)
  14. THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich (Anchor)
  15. CLEO, by Helen Brown (Citadel)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the September 19, 2010 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 5, 2010.

An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

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