The Indie Biography and Memoir Bestseller List

Created 09/09/2008 - 11:00pm

For the eight week period ending September 9, 2008, and based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide.

1.	Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252
2.	Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $15, 9780143038412
3.	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780060852566
4.	Big Russ & Me Tim Russert, Miramax, $13.95, 9781401359652
5.	Dreams From My Father Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9781400082773
6.	Into the Wild Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 9780307387172
7.	The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542
8.	A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah, FSG, $12, 9780374531263
9.	Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Free Press, $15, 9780743289696
10.	My Stroke of Insight Jill Bolte Taylor, Viking, $24.95, 9780670020744
11.	Little Heathens Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Bantam, $12, 9780553384246
12.	Lone Survivor Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316067607
13.	What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $21, 9780307269195
14.	sTORI Telling Tori Spelling, Simon Spotlight, $24.95, 9781416950738
15.	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson, Broadway, $14.95, 9780767919371
16.	Here If You Need Me Kate Braestrup, Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316066310
17.	90 Minutes in Heaven Don Piper, Revell, $12.99, 9780800759490
18.	Books: A Memoir Larry McMurtry, S&S, $24, 9781416583349
19.	Night Elie Wiesel, FSG, $9, 9780374500016
20.	The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester, Harper, $27.95, 9780060884598
21.	Clapton Eric Clapton, Broadway, $15.95, 9780767925365
22.	Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder, Random House, $15.95, 9780812973013
23.	Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $14.95, 9780385494786
24.	Waiter Rant The Waiter, Ecco, $24.95, 9780061256684
25.	Audition Barbara Walters, Knopf, $29.95, 9780307266460