The Indie Biography & Memoir Bestseller List

Posted Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009

For the eight-week period ending January 27, 2009, and based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide.

1.

Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252

2.

Dreams From My Father
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773

3.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham, Random House, $30, 9781400063253

4.

Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $21, 9780743270755

5.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780060852566

6.

Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412

7.

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder, Bantam, $35, 9780553805093

8.

Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou, Random House, $25, 9781400066124

9.

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $26, 9780767928823

10.

Listening Is an Act of Love
Dave Isay (Ed.), Penguin, $15, 9780143114345

11.

The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594489990

12.

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed, Norton, $35, 9780393064773

13.

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
James M. McPherson, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594201912

14.

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
H.W. Brands, Doubleday, $35, 9780385519588

15.

Little Heathens
Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Bantam, $12, 9780553384246

16.

A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah, FSG, $12, 9780374531263

17.

Too Fat to Fish
Artie Lange, Spiegel & Grau, $24.95, 9780385526562

18.

Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Free Press, $15, 9780743289696

19.

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
Kathleen Flinn, Penguin, $15, 9780143114130

20.

Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Bill Bryson, Harper Perennial, $13.95, 9780061673696

21.

The Longest Trip Home
John Grogan, Morrow, $25.95, 9780061713248

22.

My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor, Viking, $24.95, 9780670020744

23.

Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher, S&S, $21, 9781439102251

24.

Call Me Ted
Ted Turner, Grand Central, $30, 9780446581899

25.

Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307387172
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