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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: HEAVEN IS FOR REAL.
Author: Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Description: A boy’s encounter with Jesus and the angels.
Currently ranked 1 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 63 weeks.
ISBN: 9780849946158 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: BOSSYPANTS.
Author: Tina Fey
Publisher: Back Bay/Little, Brown
Description: A memoir from the creator of “30 Rock.”
Currently ranked 2 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 4 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/books/bossypants-by-tina-fey-review.html
ISBN: 9780316056861 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS.
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Publisher: Broadway
Description: A woman's cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951.
Currently ranked 3 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 47 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/books/03book.html
ISBN: 9781400052172 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: OUTLIERS.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay/Little, Brown
Description: Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
Currently ranked 4 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 34 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: THE NEW JIM CROW.
Author: Michelle Alexander
Publisher: New Press
Description: Taking aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men.
Currently ranked 5 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
ISBN: 9781595586438 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS.
Author: Jennifer S Holland
Publisher: Workman
Description: Forty-seven remarkable stories from the animal kingdom.
Currently ranked 6 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 28 weeks.
ISBN: 9780761159131 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: BLOOD, BONES, AND BUTTER.
Author: Gabrielle Hamilton
Publisher: Random House
Description: A memoir by the chef and owner of the Manhattan restaurant Prune.
Currently ranked 7 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 1 week.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/books/25book.html
ISBN: 9781400068722 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: MONEYBALL.
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: Norton
Description: How the Oakland Athletics built a successful team despite one of the smallest payrolls in baseball.
Currently ranked 8 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 40 weeks.
ISBN: 9780393324815 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY.
Author: The Countess of Carnarvon
Publisher: Broadway Books
Description: Inspiration and setting for the PBS show.
Currently ranked 9 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 2 weeks.
ISBN: 9780770435622 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY.
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Vintage
Description: A tale of how an architect and a serial killer were linked by the World’s Fair of 1893.
Currently ranked 10 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 201 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/books/books-of-the-times-add-a-serial-murderer-to-1893-chicago-s-opulent-overkill.html
ISBN: 9780375725609 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: TIPPING POINT.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay/Little, Brown
Description: A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
Currently ranked 11 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 373 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/05/reviews/000305.05wolfet.html
ISBN: 9780316346627 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: DON'T LOOK BEHIND YOU.
Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Pocket Books
Description: True-crime cases of people in danger.
Currently ranked 12 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 7 weeks.
ISBN: 9781451641080 (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 and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.
Currently ranked 13 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 256 weeks.
ISBN: 9780743247542 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: BORN TO RUN.
Author: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Vintage
Description: Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe.
Currently ranked 14 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 44 weeks.
ISBN: 9780307266309 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT.
Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Pocket Books
Description: The strange death of Ronda Reynolds and her mother’s unceasing quest for the truth.
Currently ranked 15 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 5 weeks.
ISBN: 9781416544609 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: INSIDE OF A DOG.
Author: Alexandra Horowitz
Publisher: Scribner
Description: The world from a dog's point of view.
Currently ranked 16 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 53 weeks.
ISBN: 9781416583431 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON.
Author: SC Gwynne
Publisher: Scribner
Description: The story of Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches.
Currently ranked 17 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 38 weeks.
ISBN: 9781416591054 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS.
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher: Vintage
Description: An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South.
Currently ranked 18 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 15 weeks.
ISBN: 9780679444329 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES.
Author: Edmund de Waal
Publisher: Picador
Description: A collection of figurines is central to this tale of a family's survival.
Currently ranked 19 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 7 weeks.
ISBN: 9780312569372 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
Title: BLINK.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay/Little, Brown
Description: The importance of hunch and instinct in the workings of the mind.
Currently ranked 20 on the Best Seller list; has been on the list for 197 weeks.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/books/06masl.html
ISBN: 9780316010665 (search for this title in the Dallas Public Library Catalog)
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