New York Times Bestsellers - Hardcover Non-Fiction

November 30, 2008

New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Best-seller List

This Week Last Week Weeks on List

1 TOO FAT TO FISH, by Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza
(Spiegel & Grau, $24.95.) Humorous memories from the comedian, a member of the cast of “The Howard Stern Show.” 1

2 AMERICAN LION, by Jon Meacham
(Random House, $30.) Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, in the White House, by the editor of Newsweek. 1

3 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 9

4* 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. 6 10

5 THE SNOWBALL, by Alice Schroeder
(Bantam, $35.) The life of Warren Buffett. 2 7

6 A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly.
(Broadway, $26.) The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career. 3 8

7 THE AMERICAN JOURNEY OF BARACK OBAMA, by the editors of Life magazine
(Little, Brown, $24.99.) Photographs and essays, starting with Obama’s birth in Hawaii. 7 2

8 CALL ME TED, by Ted Turner with Bill Burke
(Grand Central, $30.) The entrepreneur’s personal story. 1

9 LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER, by Maya Angelou
(Random House, $25.) Reminiscences, appreciations and poems from the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” 4 7

10 DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama
(Crown, $25.95.) The president-elect on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother. 8 2

11 THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama
(Crown, $25.) The president-elect asks Americans to move beyond political divisions. 11 32

12 FLEECED, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
(Harper, $26.95.) Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor unions and lobbyists. (†) 12 18

13 AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE, by James Patterson and Hal Friedman
(Little, Brown, $26.99.) A family’s struggle to get treatment for their son’s Tourette’s syndrome. 5 4

14* MY STROKE OF INSIGHT, by Jill Bolte Taylor. (Viking, $24.95.) A brain scientist shares what she learned from her 1996 stroke. 9 14

15 MULTIPLE BLESSINGS, by Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson
(Zondervan, $19.) A couple has sextuplets. 10 5

16* THE RISE OF BARACK OBAMA, by Pete Souza
(Triumph, $27.95.) Photographs of Obama’s career, from his first day in the U.S. Senate to the Pennsylvania primary last April. 16 2

This Week		Last Week	Weeks on List
1	TOO FAT TO FISH, by Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza (Spiegel & Grau, $24.95.) Humorous memories from the comedian, a member of the cast of “The Howard Stern Show.”		1
2	AMERICAN LION, by Jon Meacham (Random House, $30.) Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, in the White House, by the editor of Newsweek.		1
3	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	9
4*	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.	6	10
5	THE SNOWBALL, by Alice Schroeder (Bantam, $35.) The life of Warren Buffett.	2	7
6	A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.) The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.	3	8
7	THE AMERICAN JOURNEY OF BARACK OBAMA, by the editors of Life magazine (Little, Brown, $24.99.) Photographs and essays, starting with Obama’s birth in Hawaii.	7	2
8	CALL ME TED, by Ted Turner with Bill Burke (Grand Central, $30.) The entrepreneur’s personal story.		1
9	LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER, by Maya Angelou (Random House, $25.) Reminiscences, appreciations and poems from the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”	4	7
10	DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama (Crown, $25.95.) The president-elect on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother.	8	2
11	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama (Crown, $25.) The president-elect asks Americans to move beyond political divisions.	11	32
12	FLEECED, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Harper, $26.95.) Americans are fleeced by government, business, labor unions and lobbyists. (†)	12	18
13	AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE, by James Patterson and Hal Friedman (Little, Brown, $26.99.) A family’s struggle to get treatment for their son’s Tourette’s syndrome.	5	4
14*	MY STROKE OF INSIGHT, by Jill Bolte Taylor. (Viking, $24.95.) A brain scientist shares what she learned from her 1996 stroke.	9	14
15	MULTIPLE BLESSINGS, by Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson (Zondervan, $19.) A couple has sextuplets.	10	5
16*	THE RISE OF BARACK OBAMA, by Pete Souza (Triumph, $27.95.) Photographs of Obama’s career, from his first day in the U.S. Senate to the Pennsylvania primary last April.	16	2

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending November 15, 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.

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