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New York Times Best Sellers -- Hardcover Nonfiction
Note: The searches of the Dallas Public Library catalog on these pages use the ISBN number to search for the exact item listed. If the item is not found in the catalog, please search the catalog using the title to see if we have other versions than the one specified in this list.
Title: GAME CHANGE.
Author: John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Description: Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Currently ranked 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/books/11book.html
ISBN: 9780061733635 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: I AM OZZY.
Author: Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.”
Currently ranked 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9780446569897 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE POLITICIAN.
Author: Andrew Young
Publisher: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s
Description: A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide.
Currently ranked 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29book.html
ISBN: 9780312640651 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: COMMITTED.
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Viking
Description: The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.
Currently ranked 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/books/04book.html
ISBN: 9780670021659 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: HAVE A LITTLE FAITH.
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Hyperion
Description: A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.
Currently ranked 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 18 weeks.
ISBN: 9780786868728 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: OUTLIERS.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown
Description: Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”
Currently ranked 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 63 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/books/18kaku.html
ISBN: 9780316017923 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: STONES INTO SCHOOLS.
Author: Greg Mortenson
Publisher: Viking
Description: Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where “Three Cups of Tea” left off.
Currently ranked 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 9 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/books/10book.html
ISBN: 9780670021154 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: JUST KIDS.
Author: Patti Smith
Publisher: Ecco/HarperCollins
Description: The godmother of punk recalls her life with Robert Mapplethorpe and their yearnings for a life in art in the New York City of the 1960s and ’70s.
Currently ranked 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/books/18book.html
ISBN: 9780066211312 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: COURTING DISASTER.
Author: Marc A Thiessen
Publisher: Regnery
Description: “Enhanced interrogation” saved American lives and Obama is risking them, a Bush speechwriter says.
Currently ranked 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
ISBN: 9781596986039 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO.
Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Metropolitan/Holt
Description: Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues.
Currently ranked 10 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/books/24book.html
ISBN: 9780805091748 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: GOING ROGUE.
Author: Sarah Palin
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Description: A memoir by the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate.
Currently ranked 11 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 11 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/15book.html
ISBN: 9780061939891 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: SUPERFREAKONOMICS.
Author: Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Description: A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.
Currently ranked 12 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 15 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060889579 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: WHAT THE DOG SAW.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown
Description: A decade of New Yorker essays.
Currently ranked 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 15 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/books/20gladwell.html
ISBN: 9780316075848 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: DRIVE.
Author: Daniel H Pink
Publisher: Riverhead
Description: What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards.
Currently ranked 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
ISBN: 9781594488849 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: OPEN.
Author: Andre Agassi
Publisher: Knopf
Description: The tennis champion’s autobiography.
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 12 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/books/09book.html
ISBN: 9780307268198 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: TOO BIG TO FAIL.
Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin
Publisher: Viking
Description: The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times reporter and columnist.
Currently ranked 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780670021253 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: BORN TO RUN.
Author: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Knopf
Description: Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe.
Currently ranked 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780307266309 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: FREEFALL.
Author: Joseph Stiglitz
Publisher: Norton
Description: A Nobel Prize-winning economist criticizes the Obama administration’s economic policy from the left.
Currently ranked 18 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/books/19book.html
ISBN: 9780393075960 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: EVIDENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE.
Author: Jeffrey Long with Paul Perry
Publisher: HarperOne /HarperCollins
Description: A radiation oncologist’s study of accounts of near-death experiences.
Currently ranked 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780061452550 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIETY.
Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic
Description: How intellectuals shape public opinion.
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 0 weeks.
ISBN: 9780465019489 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
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