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Best Sellers

April 22, 2012

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Inside the List

Adriana Trigiani’s 12th novel, “The Shoemaker’s Wife,” based on the lives of her immigrant grandparents, enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 5.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

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This Week    Last Week Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction Weeks
on List
1 2 DRIFT, by Rachel Maddow. (Crown Publishing.) America’s path to war has become too easy, with excessive power ceded to the executive branch, the MSNBC host argues. 2
2 1 THE BIG MISS, by Hank Haney. (Crown Publishing.) The golf coach’s memoir describes his six eventful years with Tiger Woods. 2
3 MRS. KENNEDY AND ME, by Clint Hill. (Gallery Books.) Recollections of the Secret Service agent assigned to guard Jacqueline Kennedy. 1
4 3 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.) A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy. 63
5 TRICKLE DOWN TYRANNY, by Michael Savage. (HarperCollins Publishers.) The radio host denounces President Obama’s domestic and foreign policies as tyranny. 1
6 6 IMAGINE, by Jonah Lehrer. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.) An account of the science of creativity argues that it is not a gift but a group of thought processes that can be learned. 3
7 4 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House Publishing.) A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits. 6
8 7 STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster.) A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur, based on 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years. 24
9 5 WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing.) A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. 3
10 10 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House Publishing.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. 63
11 8 KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt.) The anchor of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 28
12 ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14, by Blaine Harden. (Penguin Group.) A journalist’s account of the life of Shin Dong-hyuk, who escaped the North Korean prison camp where he was born and raised. 1
13 9 AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. (HarperCollins Publishers.) A member of the Navy SEALs discusses his battlefield experiences. 14
14 11 THE VOW, by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter with Dana Wilkerson. (B&H Publishing.) After a horrific car crash, a couple embark on a journey to fall in love all over again. The true events that inspired the movie. 9
15 12 BOSSYPANTS, by Tina Fey. (Little, Brown & Company.) A memoir from the former "Saturday Night Live" star and creator of "30 Rock." 44

Also Selling

  1. BLOOM, by Kelle Hampton (HarperCollins Publishers)
  2. HEAVEN IS HERE, by Stephanie Nielson with Amy Ferguson (Hyperion Press)
  3. DRIVING MR. YOGI, by Harvey Araton (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  4. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot (Crown Publishing)
  5. QUIET, by Susan Cain (Crown Publishing)
  6. REBUILD THE DREAM, by Van Jones with Ariane Conrad (Basic Books)
  7. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  8. IN THE WATER THEY CAN'T SEE YOU CRY, by Amanda Beard with Rebecca Paley (Touchstone)
  9. BRINGING UP BÉBÉ, by Pamela Druckerman (Penguin Group)
  10. PARIS IN LOVE, by Eloisa James (Random House Publishing)
  11. THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH, by Edward O. Wilson (Liveright Publishing)
  12. WHY NATIONS FAIL, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (Crown Publishing)
  13. BORN TO RUN, by Christopher McDougall (Knopf Doubleday Publishing)
  14. CONFESSIONS OF A SCARY MOMMY, by Jill Smokler (Gallery Books)
  15. AUSCHWITZ, by Miklos Nyiszli (Skyhorse)
  16. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson (Crown Publishing)
  17. UNORTHODOX, by Deborah Feldman (Simon & Schuster)
  18. IMPERFECT, by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown (Random House Publishing)
  19. BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS, by Katherine Boo (Random House Publishing)
  20. SOLDIER DOGS, by Maria Goodavage (Penguin Group)
About the Best Sellers

A version of this list appears in the April 22, 2012 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending April 7, 2012.

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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