The New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Nonfiction

New York Times® Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction February 19, 2012
	1. AMERICAN SNIPER by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice A member of the Navy Seals discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
	2. AMERITOPIA by Mark R. Levin A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the history of utopias and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty.
	3. STEVE JOBS by Walter Isaacson A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur.
	4. KILLING LINCOLN by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard The heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
	5. QUIET by Susan Cain Introverts — one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society.
	6. UNBROKEN by Laura Hillenbrand An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
	7. THROUGH MY EYES by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course.
	8. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.
	9. COMING APART by Charles Murray The author of "The Bell Curve" explores the state of white America, 1960-2010.
	10. FAIRY TALE INTERRUPTED by RoseMarie Terenzio Recollections of John F. Kennedy Jr. from his former personal assistant and confidante.
	11. ELIZABETH THE QUEEN by Sally Bedell Smith The public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II as she approaches her Diamond Jubilee.
	12. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS by Erik Larson William E. Dodd, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930s Berlin.
	13. STRATEGIC VISION by Zbigniew Brzezinski President Carter’s national security adviser offers advice on how American foreign policy should respond to the shift in gravity from West to East.
	*14. GREEDY BASTARDS** by Dylan Ratigan The host of MSNBC’s “Dylan Ratigan Show” proposes solutions to political and economic problems.
	15. CATHERINE THE GREAT by Robert K. Massie The life of the minor 18th-century German princess who became Empress of All the Russias.
	16. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.
	17. THE OBAMAS by Jodi Kantor The ups and downs of building a life in the White House.
	18. ALL IN by Paula Broadwell with Vernon Loeb Gen. David Petraeus’s evolution as a soldier, from West Point to Iraq and Afghanistan.
	19. BOOMERANG by Michael Lewis A look at some of the places — Greece, Ireland, Iceland — hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008, and at how it happened.
	20. A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING by Lawrence Krauss A cosmologist’s account of how our universe evolved.

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Feb. 4, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books.

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