The Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Biography and Memoir
Based on the last four weeks of sales from over 350 independent bookstores across America.
Thanks to all the stores that report, the new expanded electronic reporting options, and the software our team here has built to sort and slice a ton of data according to BISAC categories, this is the latest of many subject category lists to run in BTW each week. These lists are intended as inventory checking tools for booksellers, alerts to publishers as to what's selling, and lists that the media can run. (For previous category bestseller lists, click here.)
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| Biography and Memoir Bestsellers |
The Top 25 for the Last Four Weeks
| 1. | John Adams, by David McCullough (Touchstone, $18.95, 0743223136) |
| 2. | My Losing Season, by Pat Conroy (Doubleday, $27.95, 0385489129) |
| 3. | A Long Way From Home, by Tom Brokaw (Random House, $24.95, 0375507639) |
| 4. | Sandy Koufax, by Jane Leavy (HarperCollins, $23.95, 0060195339) |
| 5. | Abraham, by Bruce Feiler (Morrow, $23.95, 0380977761) |
| 6. | A Girl Named Zippy, by Haven Kimmel (Broadway, $12.95, 0767905318) |
| 7. | Journals, by Kurt Cobain (Riverhead, $29.95, 1573222321) |
| 8. | Lucky, by Alice Sebold (Back Bay, $11.95, 0316096199) |
| 9. | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers (Vintage, $14, 0375725784) |
| 10. | Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom (Broadway, $11.95, 076790592X) |
| 11. | Founding Brothers, by Joseph J. Ellis (Vintage, $14, 0375705244) |
| 12. | Memoirs, by David Rockefeller (Random House, $35, 0679405887) |
| 13. | Theodore Rex, by Edmund Morris (Modern Library, $16.95, 0812966007) |
| 14. | Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, by Hayden Herrera (Perennial, $24.95, 0060085894) |
| 15. | It's Not About the Bike, by Lance Armstrong (Berkley, $13, 0425179613) |
| 16. | Benjamin Franklin, by Edmund Morgan (Yale, $24.95, 0300095325) |
| 17. | Savage Beauty, by Nancy Milford (Random House, $14.95, 0375760814) |
| 18. | Churchill, by Roy Jenkins (Plume, $18, 0452283523) |
| 19. | George and Laura, by Christopher Andersen (Morrow, $25.95, 0066213703) |
| 20. | Off to the Side: A Memoir, by Jim Harrison (Atlantic Monthly Press, $25, 0871138603) |
| 21. | Ava's Man, by Rick Bragg (Vintage, $13, 0375724443) |
| 22. | Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, by Oliver W. Sacks (Vintage Books USA, $14, 0375704043) |
| 23. | All Over But the Shoutin', by Rick Bragg (Vintage, $14, 0679774025) |
| 24. | Marie Antoinette: The Journey, by Antonia Fraser (Anchor, $16.95, 0385489498) |
| 25. | Without Reservations, by Alice Steinbach (Random House Trade, $13.95, 0375758453) |
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