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Trade Paperback Nonfiction
Bestseller List for May 10, 2007
from sales the week ending May 6, 2007
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Last Week/
Weeks on List |
| 1. |
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412
The author's yearlong search for spiritual meaning. |
1/15 |
| 2. |
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252
An American's effort to open 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
A Book Sense Notable title. |
2/14 |
| 3. |
Mayflower
Nathaniel Philbrick, Penguin, $16, 9780143111979
A well-researched, fascinating and modern account of the Pilgrims. A Book
Sense (hardcover)Pick. |
4/2 |
| 4. |
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $13.95, 9781400078431
Paperback edition of the National Book Award winner and Book Sense Notable.
Now a Broadway production. |
3/12 |
| 5. |
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316010665
Gladwell's bestseller on the power of first impressions comes to paperback.
A Book Sense Reading Group Pick in hardcover. |
5/5 |
| 6. |
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $14, 9780743247542
A lovely telling of a most bizarre upbringing. A Book Sense Pick in hardcover. |
6/68 |
| 7. |
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert, Vintage, $14.95, 9781400077427
A Harvard professor explains the limitations of the imagination and how
it affects our search for happiness. |
7/7 |
| 8. |
The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan, Mariner, $14.95, 9780618773473
The National Book Award-winning story about the natural disaster of the
1930s. |
9/20 |
| 9. |
A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut, Random House, $13.95, 9780812977363
A memoirish selection of Vonnegut writings. |
15/10 |
| 10. |
The Measure of a Man
Sidney Poitier, HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95, 9780061357909
A memoir from the celebrated actor and a former Oprah Book Club pick. |
8/15 |
| 11. |
Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773
An elegant memoir of race and place from the presidential hopeful. |
11/54 |
| 12. |
Armed Madhouse
Greg Palast, Plume, $15, 9780452288317
Gotta love the subtitle. Sordid and strange, indeed. |
10/2 |
| 13. |
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, Vintage, $14.95, 9780375725609
A Book Sense Reading Group Pick and Book Sense Book of the Year finalist.
As the subtitle says, murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed
America. |
13/167 |
| 14. |
The Places in Between
Rory Stewart, Harvest, $14, 9780156031561
Much more than a walk across Afghanistan. |
14/40 |
| 15. |
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $14.95, 9780812973013
The prize-winning Kidder examines a life made meaningful through dedication.
A Book Sense Reading Group Pick. |
/104 |
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ON THE RISE |
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| 18. |
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
Anthony Bourdain, Bloomsbury, $14.95, 9781596913608
The truthful bits: tasty anecdotes and more from the salty author of Kitchen
Confidential. |
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