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New York Times Best Sellers -- Paperback 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: THE LOST CITY OF Z.
Author: David Grann
Publisher: Vintage Departures
Description: A New Yorker writer searches for a British explorer who was lost in the Amazon in 1925.
Currently ranked 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/books/17kaku.html?ref=books
ISBN: 9780385513531 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE BLIND SIDE.
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: Norton
Description: The evolving business of football, viewed through the rise of the left tackle Michael Oher.
Currently ranked 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 22 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/books/05masl.html
ISBN: 9780393330472 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THREE CUPS OF TEA.
Author: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Publisher: Penguin
Description: A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Currently ranked 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 161 weeks.
ISBN: 9780143038252 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE SURVIVORS CLUB.
Author: Ben Sherwood
Publisher: Grand Central
Description: True stories of how faith, luck and genetics play into the ability to overcome adversity.
Currently ranked 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
ISBN: 9780446580243 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA.
Author: Chelsea Handler
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Description: Humorous personal essays from the comedian.
Currently ranked 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 9 weeks.
ISBN: 9780061173394 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: MY HORIZONTAL LIFE.
Author: Chelsea Handler
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Description: A memoir of one-night stands.
Currently ranked 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 70 weeks.
ISBN: 9781582346182 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE TIPPING POINT.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay/Little, Brown
Description: A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
Currently ranked 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 282 weeks.
ISBN: 9780316316965 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: EAT, PRAY, LOVE.
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin
Description: A writer’s yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia.
Currently ranked 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 160 weeks.
ISBN: 9780143038412 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: BLINK.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay/Little, Brown
Description: Instinct in the workings of the mind.
Currently ranked 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 124 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/books/06masl.html
ISBN: 9780316005012 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: FREAKONOMICS.
Author: Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Description: A scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to nearly everything.
Currently ranked 10 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 27 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060731328 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL.
Author: Tucker Max
Publisher: Citadel/Kensington
Description: Life as a self-absorbed, drunken womanizer.
Currently ranked 11 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 126 weeks.
ISBN: 9780806527284 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: A PEOPLE''S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Description: An account from the point of view of women, African-Americans and others who are often marginalized.
Currently ranked 12 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060838652 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: IN DEFENSE OF FOOD.
Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin
Description: A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Currently ranked 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 38 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/books/03masl.html
ISBN: 9780143114963 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME.
Author: Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
Publisher: Nelson
Description: An unlikely friendship begins at a shelter in Texas.
Currently ranked 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 71 weeks.
ISBN: 9780849900419 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: A PATRIOT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Author: Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen
Publisher: Sentinel
Description: America as a "city on a hill."
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
ISBN: 9781595230324 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA.
Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin
Description: Tracking food from soil to plate.
Currently ranked 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 126 weeks.
ISBN: 9780143038580 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE GLASS CASTLE.
Author: Jeannette Walls
Publisher: Scribner
Description: The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she was constantly on the move.
Currently ranked 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 167 weeks.
ISBN: 9780743247535 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: LONE SURVIVOR.
Author: Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson
Publisher: Back Bay/Little, Brown, $15;
Description: The harrowing story of a Navy Seals operation.
Currently ranked 18 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 59 weeks.
ISBN: 9780316044691 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: ANIMALS MAKE US HUMAN.
Author: Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Publisher: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Description: Helping animals have better lives.
Currently ranked 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 6 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/books/21garn.html
ISBN: 9780547248233 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: HOW WE DECIDE.
Author: Jonah Lehrer
Publisher: Mariner
Description: The art of making better decisions.
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 3 weeks.
ISBN: 9780547247991 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
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