May 4, 2008
New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Best-seller List
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Last Week |
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| 1 | BEAUTIFUL
BOY, by David Sheff (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A father struggles with his son’s meth addiction. |
3 | 8 |
| 2 | HOME,
by Julie Andrews (Hyperion, $26.95.) A memoir of Andrews’s early years from birth to being cast as Mary Poppins. |
1 | 3 |
| 3 | MISTAKEN
IDENTITY, by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and
Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb (Howard, $21.95.) The families of two girls whose identities were confused after a 2006 accident describe their experience. |
2 | 4 |
| 4 | LADIES
OF LIBERTY, by Cokie Roberts (Morrow, $26.95.) The influential women of early America. |
4 | 2 |
| 5 | ESCAPE,
by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer (Broadway, $24.95.) A former member of a fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her forced marriage to a much older man. |
6 | 4 |
| 6 | GIRLS
LIKE US, by Sheila Weller (Atria, $27.95.) The lives and times of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. |
7 | 2 |
| 7 | BAD
MONEY, by Kevin Phillips (Viking, $25.95.) How the financial sector has hijacked the American economy, aided by Washington’s ruinous faith in the efficiency of markets. |
1 | |
| 8 | ARMAGEDDON
IN RETROSPECT, by Kurt Vonnegut (Putnam, $24.95.) Twelve unpublished writings on war and peace by the novelist, who died in 2007. |
5 | 3 |
| 9 | IN
DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press, $21.95.) A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” |
11 | 16 |
| 10 | * BRETT
FAVRE: THE TRIBUTE (Sports Illustrated, $27.95.) From the magazine, articles about and pictures of the Green Bay Packers quarterback. |
13 | 4 |
| 11 | BONK,
by Mary Roach (Norton, $24.95.) An amusing look at the science of sexual physiology. |
10 | 2 |
| 12 | TERROR
AND CONSENT, by Philip Bobbitt (Knopf, $35.) A historical, legal and strategic analysis of the “war on terror” questions whether democratic states can survive in the 21st century. |
1 | |
| 13 | STANDING
TALL, by C. Vivian Stringer with Laura Tucker (Crown, $24.95.) A memoir by the head coach of the Rutgers women’s basketball team. |
9 | 2 |
| 14 | * LOSING
IT, by Valerie Bertinelli (Free Press, $26.) A memoir by the actress and former wife of Eddie Van Halen. |
8 | 8 |
| 15 | PHYSICS
OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, by Michio Kaku (Doubleday, $26.95.) A theoretical physicist who is one of the founders of string theory discusses the possibility of phenomena like force fields, teleportation and time travel. |
12 | 5 |
| 16 | * MADNESS,
by Marya Hornbacher (Houghton Mifflin, $25.) Life with bipolar disorder. |
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Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending April 19, 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