| This Week | Title | Last Week | Weeks on List |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Sh*t My Dad Says
Author: Justin Halpern; Publisher: It Books; ISBN: 9780061992704
Halpern's hilarious and touching portrait of his relationship with his father.
|
2 | 15 |
| 2 |
Women Food and God
Author: Geneen Roth; Publisher: Scribner; ISBN: 9781416543077
A penetrating and irreverent "guide for life" by the author of When Food Is Love.
|
1 | 22 |
| 3 |
The Power
Author: Rhonda Byrne; Publisher: Atria; ISBN: 9781439181782
Byrne's follow-up to the international bestseller The Secret.
|
-- | 1 |
| 4 |
Packing for Mars
Author: Mary Roach; Publisher: Norton; ISBN: 9780393068474
A very entertaining look at space travel by the bestselling author of Bonk.
|
4 | 3 |
| 5 |
Empire of the Summer Moon
Author: S.C. Gwynne; Publisher: Scribner; ISBN: 9781416591054
A vivid historical account of the 40-year battle between the Comanches and white settlers for control of the American West.
|
6 | 8 |
| 6 |
Medium Raw
Author: Anthony Bourdain; Publisher: Ecco; ISBN: 9780061718946
Bourdain's eagerly awaited follow-up to Kitchen Confidential.
|
3 | 11 |
| 7 |
Born to Run
Author: Christopher McDougall; Publisher: Knopf; ISBN: 9780307266309
A look at the Tarahumara Indians and their practice of the lost art of distance running.
|
7 | * |
| 8 |
Committed
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert; Publisher: Viking; ISBN: 9780670021659
Gilbert's follow-up to her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love is a January Indie Next List Great Read.
|
12 | 22 |
| 9 |
Four Fish
Author: Paul Greenberg; Publisher: Penguin Press; ISBN: 9781594202568
Greenberg examines the ways fish gets to our dinner tables and how to make sustainable seafood the rule rather than the exception.
|
9 | 4 |
| 10 |
The Big Short
Author: Michael Lewis; Publisher: Norton; ISBN: 9780393072235
A highly entertaining look at the U.S. financial crisis by the bestselling author of Liar's Poker and Moneyball.
|
5 | 23 |
| 11 |
Let's Take the Long Way Home
Author: Gail Caldwell; Publisher: Random House; ISBN: 9781400067381
Caldwell's heartwarming new memoir is an August Indie Next List Great Read.
|
11 | 2 |
| 12 |
Hitch-22
Author: Christopher Hitchens; Publisher: Twelve; ISBN: 9780446540339
A memoir by the author of the National Book Award nominee God Is Not Great.
|
-- | 9 |
| 13 |
Outliers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell; Publisher: Little Brown; ISBN: 9780316017923
The author of Blink and The Tipping Point looks at what makes some people successful--and others not.
|
10 | * |
| 14 |
War
Author: Sebastian Junger; Publisher: Twelve; ISBN: 9780446556248
Junger's riveting account of a U.S. platoon's 15-month tour of duty in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
|
8 | 15 |
| 15 |
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
Author: Sam Wasson; Publisher: Harper; ISBN: 9780061774157
Wasson's fascinating look at Audrey Hepburn and the filming of Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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15 | 4 |