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Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for February 16, 2006
from sales the week ending February 12, 2006
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Hardcover Nonfiction |
Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
Marley & Me
John Grogan, Morrow, $21.95, 0060817089
The top Book Sense Pick for November. Irresistible and funny. |
1/16 |
| 2. |
The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.50, 0374292884
The award-winning New York Times journalist takes on globalization.
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2/44 |
| 3. |
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X
A devastating, honest, and therapeutic memoir of grief. Winner of the National
Book Award and a Book Sense Notable title. |
3/19 |
| 4. |
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X
Analytical yet creative, provocative yet logical economic theory. A Book
Sense Pick. |
5/43 |
| 5. |
Our Endangered Values
Jimmy Carter, S&S, $25, 0743284577
The former president cautions Americans against eroding the separation between
church and state. |
4/15 |
| 6. |
Teacher Man
Frank McCourt, Scribner, $26, 0743243773
A journey through teaching in the NYC public schools, by the beloved author
of Angela's Ashes. |
6/13 |
| 7. |
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $25.95, 0316172324
Gladwell does for first impressions what he did for memetics in his bestselling
The Tipping Point. |
9/52 |
| 8. |
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $35, 0684824906
The prize-winning historian studies Lincoln as the ultimate manager and
motivator. |
8/16 |
| 9. |
State of War
James Risen, Free Press, $26, 0743270665
An alarming look at W's use of presidential power. |
/5 |
| 10. |
You're Wearing That?
Deborah Tannen, Random House, $24.95, 1400062586
Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand, attempts to dicipher
the mother/daughter relationship through conversation. Were it only so simple...
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7/3 |
| 11. |
At Canaan's Edge
Taylor Branch, S&S, $35, 068485712X
The engrossing final installment of Branch's three-volume biography of Martin
Luther King, Jr. |
/2 |
| 12. |
Misquoting Jesus
Bart D. Ehrman, HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060738170
Expect controversy with this critical assessment of the text of the New
Testament. |
11/6 |
| 13. |
Self-Made Man
Norah Vincent, Viking, $24.95, 0670034665
Passing as a man, in all ways, provides a rich journey and report. |
10/3 |
| 14. |
Sex and the Seasoned Woman
Gail Sheehy, Random House, $25.95, 1400062632
Views on approaching sex, love, romance, and marriage at different ages,
from the author of Passages. |
13/4 |
| 15. |
The Elements of Style Illustrated
William Strunk, et al., Penguin Press, $24.95, 1594200696
The beloved how-to manual, now with pictures. |
/13 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 35. |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived
the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin, $28, 061834697X
A history of an unreal time, with many eyewitness accounts. Chosen as a Book
Sense Pick by independent booksellers. |
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