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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: 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 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 185 weeks.
ISBN: 9780143038412 (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 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 186 weeks.
ISBN: 9780143038252 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: WHERE MEN WIN GLORY.
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
Description: The story of Pat Tillman and the Army’s cover-up of his death by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan.
Currently ranked 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/books/24maslin.html
ISBN: 9780307386045 (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 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 95 weeks.
ISBN: 9781582346182 (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 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 181 weeks.
ISBN: 9780743247535 (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 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 34 weeks.
ISBN: 9780061173394 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: MENNONITE IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS.
Author: Rhoda Janzen
Publisher: Holt
Description: Life’s detours send Janzen back to the Mennonite home where she was raised.
Currently ranked 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 19 weeks.
ISBN: 9780805092257 (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 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 52 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060731328 (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 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 307 weeks.
ISBN: 9780316316965 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: ZEITOUN.
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage
Description: The travails of a Syrian-American man and his family after Hurricane Katrina.
Currently ranked 10 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 10 weeks.
ISBN: 9780307387943 (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 147 weeks.
ISBN: 9780806527284 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: A LONG WAY GONE.
Author: Ishmael Beah
Publisher: Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Description: A former child soldier describes a killing spree and his return to humanity.
Currently ranked 12 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 40 weeks.
ISBN: 9780374105235 (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 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 142 weeks.
ISBN: 9780143038580 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: LIT.
Author: Mary Karr
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Description: A poet’s memoir of motherhood, troubled marriage, alcoholism and depression; a sequel to "The Liars’ Club."
Currently ranked 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 8 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/books/06book.html
ISBN: 9780060596996 (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: The unlikely friendship between a homeless drifter and a successful art dealer who meet at a shelter in Texas.
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 90 weeks.
ISBN: 9780849900419 (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 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 149 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: OPEN.
Author: Andre Agassi
Publisher: Vintage
Description: The tennis champion’s autobiography.
Currently ranked 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/books/09book.html
ISBN: 9780307388407 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE BLACK SWAN.
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher: Random House
Description: The hubris of predictions — and our perpetual surprise when the not-predicted happens.
Currently ranked 18 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 15 weeks.
ISBN: 9780812973815 (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 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 14 weeks.
ISBN: 9780060838652 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: HALF THE SKY.
Author: Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Publisher: Vintage
Description: A case for viewing women’s equality as the "paramount moral challenge" of our era.
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 11 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/books/review/Manji-t.html
ISBN: 9780307387097 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
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