Hardcover Nonfiction

1. 6 weeks on the list

   GAME CHANGE

   by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

   Harper/HarperCollins

   Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin.

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   Ranked 1 last week

2. 4 weeks on the list

   THE POLITICIAN

   by Andrew Young

   Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s

   A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide.

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   Ranked 2 last week

3. 3 weeks on the list

   THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

   by Rebecca Skloot

   Crown

   Race, poverty and science intertwine in the story of the woman whose cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951 and have supported a mountain of research undertaken since then.

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   Ranked 6 last week

4. 4 weeks on the list

   I AM OZZY

   by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres

   Grand Central

   Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.”

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   Ranked 4 last week

5. 2 weeks on the list

   WILLIE MAYS

   by James S. Hirsch

   Scribner

   The life and career of a baseball legend.

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   Ranked 8 last week

6. 3 weeks on the list

   ON THE BRINK

   by Henry M. Paulson Jr.

   Grand Central

   The Treasury secretary during the financial meltdown describes the decisions that were made.

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   Ranked 5 last week

7. 21 weeks on the list

   HAVE A LITTLE FAITH

   by Mitch Albom

   Hyperion

   A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.

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   Ranked 10 last week

8. 12 weeks on the list

   STONES INTO SCHOOLS

   by Greg Mortenson

   Viking

   Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where “Three Cups of Tea” left off.

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   Ranked 7 last week

9. 3 weeks on the list

   STAYING TRUE

   by Jenny Sanford

   Ballantine

   The ups and downs of life with South Carolina’s Gov. Mark Sanford, by his estranged wife.

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   Ranked 3 last week

10. 7 weeks on the list

    COMMITTED

    by Elizabeth Gilbert

    Viking

    The author of “Eat, Pray, Love” wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.

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    Ranked 9 last week

11. 66 weeks on the list

    OUTLIERS

    by Malcolm Gladwell

    Little, Brown

    Why some people succeed, from the author of “Blink.”

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    Ranked 12 last week

12. 6 weeks on the list

    DRIVE

    by Daniel H. Pink

    Riverhead

    What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards.

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13. 7 weeks on the list

    THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO

    by Atul Gawande

    Metropolitan/Holt

    Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues.

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    Ranked 15 last week

14. 3 weeks on the list

    MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR

    by David Dosa

    Hyperion

    A nursing-home cat who comforts patients when death is near.

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    Ranked 13 last week

15. New this week

    THE QUANTS

    by Scott Patterson

    Crown Business

    How a new breed of math whizzes conquered Wall Street and nearly destroyed it.

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