October 5, 2008
New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Best-seller List
| This Week | Last Week | Weeks on List | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HOT,
FLAT, AND CROWDED, by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.95.) How a green revolution can renew America, by the New York Times columnist. |
1 | 2 |
| 2 | THE
WAR WITHIN, by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, $32.) White House debates over the Iraq war, 2006-8. |
2 | 2 |
| 3 | THE
LIMITS OF POWER, by Andrew Bacevich (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.) A retired Army colonel argues that Americans themselves are responsible for the country’s woes. (†) |
6 | 6 |
| 4 | ANGLER,
by Barton Gellman (Penguin, $27.95.) Dick Cheney’s actions as vice president are explored by the Washington Post reporter. |
1 | |
| 5* | THROUGH THE STORM,
by Lynne Spears with Lorilee Craker (Nelson, 24.99.) Britney Spears’s mother gives her perspective on her family’s perils. |
1 | |
| 6 | STORI
TELLING, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) The actress’s memoir. (†) |
3 | 17 |
| 7 | BOYS WILL BE BOYS,
by Jeff Pearlman (Harper, $25.95.) A chronicle of the Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s. |
1 | |
| 8 | ARE
YOU THERE, VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEAA, by
Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) Humorous personal essays from the stand-up comedian. |
4 | 22 |
| 9 | THE
FOREVER WAR, by Dexter Filkins (Knopf, $25.) A distillation of his work in Iraq and Afghanistan by the New York Times correspondent. |
1 | |
| 10 | FLEECED,
by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Harper, $26.95.) Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor unions and lobbyists. (†) |
8 | 13 |
| 11 | WHEN
YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES, by David Sedaris (Little, Brown, $25.99.) The humorist’s latest essays. |
9 | 16 |
| 12* | THE
CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA, by David Freddoso (Regnery, $27.95.) The Democratic candidate as a calculating extreme leftist. (†) |
10 | 7 |
| 13 | DEWEY,
by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter (Grand Central, $19.99.) The kitten left freezing in the returned-book slot of an Iowa public library, and his rise to fame. |
1 | |
| 14 | THE
OBAMA NATION, by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold, $28.) The Democratic candidate as an extreme leftist, from a co-author of “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.” (†) |
7 | 8 |
| 15 | ACEDIA
AND ME, by Kathleen Norris (Riverhead, $25.95.) Personal experience with a malady related to depression. |
1 | |
| 16* | THE
TROUBLE WITH BOYS, by Peg Tyre (Crown, $24.95.) The national debate about why boys are falling behind girls’ achievement in school. |
15 | 2 |
Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending September 20, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
List and descriptions from the New York Times web site at
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html