Reading Radar
From the New York Times Bestseller Lists
Hardcover Nonfiction
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#1
NO APOLOGY
Mitt Romney
The former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate calls for economic and civic revitalization. (†)
On the bestsellers list for 1 week.
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#2
LIFT
Kelly Corrigan
Stories about parenting, written as a letter to the author’s daughters.
On the bestsellers list for 1 week.
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#3
GAME CHANGE
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin.
On the bestsellers list for 8 weeks.
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#4
NOT WITHOUT HOPE
Nick Schuyler and Jeré Longman
A man survives a deep-sea fishing trip gone terribly wrong.
On the bestsellers list for 1 week.
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#5
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
Rebecca Skloot
Race, poverty and science intertwine in the story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have supported a mountain of research undertaken since then.
On the bestsellers list for 5 weeks.
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#6
NO ONE WOULD LISTEN
Harry Markopolos with others
The man who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff and was ignored.
On the bestsellers list for 1 week.
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#7
THE PACIFIC
Hugh Ambrose
Stories of Marines and a Navy pilot during World War II; companion volume for an HBO mini-series.
On the bestsellers list for 1 week.
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#8
WILLIE MAYS
James S Hirsch
The life and career of a baseball legend.
On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks.
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#9
THE POLITICIAN
Andrew Young
A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide.
On the bestsellers list for 6 weeks.
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#10
OUTLIERS
Malcolm Gladwell
Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
On the bestsellers list for 68 weeks.
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#11
SON OF HAMAS
Mosab Hassan Yousef with Ron Brackin
The son of a Hamas founder converts to Christianity and emigrates to the United States.
On the bestsellers list for 1 week.
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#12
I AM OZZY
Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres
Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.”
On the bestsellers list for 6 weeks.
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#13
THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO
Atul Gawande
Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues.
On the bestsellers list for 9 weeks.
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#14
MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR
David Dosa
A nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death is near.
On the bestsellers list for 5 weeks.
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#15
STONES INTO SCHOOLS
Greg Mortenson
Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where “Three Cups of Tea” left off.
On the bestsellers list for 14 weeks.
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#16
HAVE A LITTLE FAITH
Mitch Albom
A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
On the bestsellers list for 0 week.
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#18
DRIVE
Daniel H Pink
What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards.
On the bestsellers list for 0 week.
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#19
COMMITTED
Elizabeth Gilbert
The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.
On the bestsellers list for 0 week.
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#20
SUPERFREAKONOMICS
Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.
On the bestsellers list for 0 week.
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