The Indie Politics & Current Events Bestseller List
Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending November 4, 2012.
1. The Price of Politics
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30, 9781451651102
2. Joseph Anton
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $30, 9780812992786
3. The Oath
Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385527200
4. Half the Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307387097
5. That Used to Be Us
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum, Picador, $16, 9781250013729
6. The Amateur
Edward Klein, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596987852
7. The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Robert D. Kaplan, Random House, $28, 9781400069835
8. The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594204111
9. The Party Is Over
Mike Lofgren, Viking, $25.95, 9780670026265
10. Who Stole the American Dream?
Hedrick Smith, Random House, $30, 9781400069668
11. Drift
Rachel Maddow, Crown, $25, 9780307460981
12. Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy
Ted Widmer, Caroline Kennedy, Hyperion, $40, 9781401324568
13. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco (Illus.), Nation Books, $28, 9781568586434
14. Obama’s America
Dinesh D’Souza, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596987784
15. Beyond Outrage
Robert B. Reich, Vintage, $9.99, 9780345804372
16. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
Greg Palast, Ted Rall (Illus.), Seven Stories Press, $14.95, 9781609804787
17. The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America
Tom Brokaw, Random House Trade, $17, 9780812975123
18. 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars
Kurt Eichenwald, Touchstone, $30, 9781451669381
19. Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
Thomas Frank, Picador, $16, 9781250020352
20. American Political Speeches
Terry Golway (Ed.), Penguin, $12, 9780143121954
21. The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Michael Grunwald, S&S, $28, 9781451642322
22. Mugged: Racial Demogoguery From the Seventies to Obama
Ann Coulter, Sentinel, $26.95, 9781595230997
23. The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan, Haymarket, $16, 9781608462315
24. Here Comes Trouble
Michael Moore, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455513079
25. The Betrayal of the American Dream
Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele, PublicAffairs, $26.99, 9781586489694