Trade Paperback Nonfiction
Bestseller List for May 7, 2001
from sales the week ending April 29
Online at www.bookweb.org Thursday, May 3
Published in Bookselling This Week Monday, May 7
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Last Week/
Weeks on List |
1. |
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers, 0375725784, Vintage, $14.00.
Heartbreaking -- yes, but brilliant, and funny, too. The memoir of a 21-year-old
who lost both parents to cancer and had to raise his 7-year-old brother. |
1/11 |
2. |
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, 1878424319, Amber-Allen, $12.95.
A practical guide to personal freedom, outlining a way of life rooted in
traditional Toltec beliefs. |
2/51 |
3. |
Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel
Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht, 0811831310, Chronicle, $14.95.
Advice for travel that will keep you cool, calm, and collected, and ready
to control a runaway camel, escape from the trunk of a car, and almost everything
in between. |
3/4 |
4. |
Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel, 0140280553, Penguin, $14.00.
An insightful, innovative biography of Galileo through the letters of his
devoted daughter, a cloistered nun. |
6/25 |
5. |
Life Strategies
Phillip C. McGraw, 0786884592, Hyperion, $11.95.
A book about taking control of your life from the author of Relationship
Rescue |
4/16 |
6. |
My Grandfather's Blessing
Rachel Naomi Remen, 1573228567, Riverhead, $14.00.
"Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging" from the author of Kitchen
Table Wisdom. |
8/2 |
7. |
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond, 0393317552, Norton, $15.95.
A persuasive and astonishing chronicle of how the modern world came to be,
as a result of geographical and environmental factors, not genetic superiority. |
10/72 |
8. |
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
Joshua Piven, 0811825558, Chronicle, $14.95.
Advice for travel that will keep you cool, calm, and collected, and ready
to control a runaway camel, escape from the trunk of a car, and almost everything
in between. |
5/73 |
9. |
Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Jill Connor Browne, 0609804138, Three Rivers, $12.00.
Necessary, hilarious advice from "The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life
at All Times" to "Men Who May Need Killing, Quite Frankly" and more . .
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7/14 |
10. |
George W. Bushisms
Edited by Jacob Weisberg, 0743222229, S&S, $9.95.
The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President. |
9/11 |
11. |
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter, 0446677450, Warner, $15.95.
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15/51 |
12. |
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff For Women - 1st Week On List
Kristine Carlson, 0786886021, Hyperion, $11.95.
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13. |
The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler, 0375756981, Villard, $12.95.
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11/11 |
14. |
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson, 0767902521, Broadway, $13.95.
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-/44 |
15. |
A Child Called 'It'
Dave Pelzer, 1558743669, Health Communications, $9.95.
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-/12 |
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