The Indie Biography & Memoir Bestseller List
Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 24, 2012.
1. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307592736
2. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
3. Bossypants
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $15.99, 9780316056878
4. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro, Knopf, $35, 9780679405078
5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189
6. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $26, 9781400069347
7. Born to Run
Christopher McDougall, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307279187
8. It Worked for Me
Colin Powell, Harper, $27.99, 9780062135124
9. Nothing Daunted
Dorothy Wickenden, Scribner, $15, 9781439176597
10. Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $25.95, 9780399159015
11. The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin, Harper, $14.99, 9780061583261
12. Cronkite
Douglas Brinkley, Harper, $34.99, 9780061374265
13. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781451648539
14. The Presidents Club
Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy, S&S, $32.50, 9781439127704
15. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
The Countess of Carnarvon, Broadway, $15.99, 9780770435622
16. Are You My Mother?
Alison Bechdel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22, 9780618982509
17. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Alexandra Fuller, Penguin, $15, 9780143121343
18. The Hare With Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal, Picador, $16, 9780312569372
19. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $16, 9780743247542
20. To Heaven and Back
Mary C. Neal, Waterbrook, $14.99, 9780307731715
21. Blue Nights
Joan Didion, Vintage, $15, 9780307387387
22. Empire of the Summer Moon
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $16, 9781416591061
23. Prague Winter
Madeleine Albright, Harper, $29.99, 9780062030313
24. My Cross to Bear
Gregg Allman, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062112033
25. When Women Were Birds
Terry Tempest Williams, FSG, $23, 9780374288976