Best Sellers Lists- Non Fiction
Library Journal’s Best Sellers is compiled from data on books borrowed and requested (placed on hold) at public libraries throughout the United States.
It includes statistics from urban, suburban, and rural libraries. We thank the many contributing libraries as well as Polaris Library Systems, The Library Corporation (TLC), and Sirsi Corporation.
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| Rank |
Title/Author/Publisher |
Last
Position |
Times
On List |
| 1 |
Three Cups of Tea. Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Penguin, $15. ISBN 9780143038252. |
2 |
19 |
| 2 |
Act Like a Lady, Think Like A Man. Steve Harvey
Amistad, $23.99. ISBN 978-0-06-172897-6. |
6 |
2 |
| 3 |
Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown, $27.99. ISBN 9780316017923. |
1 |
5 |
| 4 |
Dewey. Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Grand Central, $19.99. ISBN 9780446407410. |
3 |
6 |
| 5 |
Marley and Me. John Grogan
Morrow, $21.95. ISBN 0060817089. |
5 |
31 |
| 6 |
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Barack Obama
Three Rivers Press, $13.95. ISBN 1400082773. |
4 |
17 |
| 7 |
The Yankee Years. Torre, Joe
Doubleday, $26.95. ISBN 978-0-385-52740-8. |
12 |
2 |
| 8 |
Eat This, Not That. David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding
Rodale, $19.95. ISBN 97814594868542. |
8 |
3 |
| 9 |
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity. O'Reilly, Bill
Broadway, $26. ISBN 9780767928823. |
15 |
3 |
| 10 |
Against Medical Advice. James Patterson and Hal Friedman
Little, Brown, $26.99. ISBN 9780316024754. |
9 |
6 |
| 11 |
Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Friedman, Thomas L.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, $27.95. ISBN 9780374166854. |
11 |
7 |
| 12 |
Flat Belly Diet. Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass
Rodale Press, $25.95. ISBN 9781594868511. |
14 |
3 |
| 13 |
The Secret. Rhonda Byrne
Beyond Words Publishing, $23.95. ISBN 9781582701707. |
12 |
14 |
| 14 |
Multiple Blessings. Jon & Kate Gosselin and Beth Carson
Zondervan, $19.99. ISBN 9780310289029. |
10 |
3 |
| 15 |
The Audacity of Hope. Barack Obama
Three Rivers, $14.95. ISBN 9780307237705. |
7 |
15 |
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