Reading Radar
From the New York Times Bestseller Lists
Hardcover Nonfiction
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#1
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 7 weeks.
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#2
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 4 weeks.
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#3
I AM OZZY
Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres
Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.”
On the bestsellers list for 5 weeks.
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#4
THE POLITICIAN
Andrew Young
A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide.
On the bestsellers list for 5 weeks.
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#5
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 22 weeks.
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#6
THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO
Atul Gawande
Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues.
On the bestsellers list for 8 weeks.
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#7
OUTLIERS
Malcolm Gladwell
Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
On the bestsellers list for 67 weeks.
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#8
WILLIE MAYS
James S Hirsch
The life and career of a baseball legend.
On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks.
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#9
COMMITTED
Elizabeth Gilbert
The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.
On the bestsellers list for 8 weeks.
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#10
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 13 weeks.
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#11
MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR
David Dosa
A nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death is near.
On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks.
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#12
ON THE BRINK
Henry M Paulson Jr
The Treasury secretary during the financial meltdown describes the decisions that were made.
On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks.
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#13
DRIVE
Daniel H Pink
What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards.
On the bestsellers list for 7 weeks.
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#14
MAKING TOAST
Roger Rosenblatt
The writer and his wife help to raise their grandchildren after the sudden death of their 38-year-old daughter.
On the bestsellers list for 1 week.
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#15
STAYING TRUE
Jenny Sanford
The ups and downs of life with South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford, by his estranged wife.
On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks.
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#17
BORN TO RUN
Christopher McDougall
Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe.
On the bestsellers list for 0 week.
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#18
WHAT THE DOG SAW
Malcolm Gladwell
A decade of New Yorker essays.
On the bestsellers list for 0 week.
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#19
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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#20
THE QUANTS
Scott Patterson
How a new breed of math whizzes conquered Wall Street and nearly destroyed it.
On the bestsellers list for 0 week.
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