NEW YORK TIMES
NON-FICTION BEST SELLERS LIST
2008
The following is a compilation of the New York Times Non-fiction Best Sellers List. Along with the title and author, you will find the call number of each book.
The Middle Place (B Corrigan) Kelly Corrigan
The Great Awakening (269.0973) Jim Wallis
The Zookeeper’s Wife (940.53) Diane Ackerman
This Republic of Suffering (973.71) Drew Gilpin Faust
Iceman (B Liddell) Chuck Liddell
Hope’s Boy (B Bridge) Andrew Bridge
The Commission (973.931) Philip Shenon
Reconciliation (297.273) Benazir Bhutto
The Age of American Unreason (973.91) Susan Jacoby
The Match (796.352) Mark Frost
Manic (B Cheney) Terri Cheney
The Reason for God (239) Timothy Keller
The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (B Shields) David Shields
Predictably Irrational (330) Dan Ariely
Losing It (B Bertinelli) Valerie Bertinelli
Beautiful Boy (362.29) David Sheff
The Bush Tragedy (973.931) Jacob Weisberg
Stori Telling (B Spelling) Tori Spelling
Human Smoke (940.5311) Nicholson Baker
Retribution (940.54) Max Hastings
Common Wealth (338.9) Jeffrey D. Sachs
Physics of the Impossible (530) Michio Kaku
Tell Me Where It Hurts (636.089) Nick Trout
Mistaken Identity (617.481) Don and Susie Van Ryn &
Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (332.0415) Charles R. Morris
Home (B Andrews) Julie Andrews
I Am America (and So Can You!) (817) Stephen Colbert
An Inconvenient Book (973.92) Glenn Beck
Boom! (973.92) Tom Brokaw
Born Standing Up (B Martin) Steve Martin
Quiet Strength (B Dungy) Tony Dungy
Rescuing Sprite (636.7092) Mark R. Levin
Good dog. Stay. (B Quindlen) Anna Quindlen
The Nine (347.7326) Jeffrey Toobin
The Age of Turbulence (B Greenspan) Alan Greenspan
A Family Christmas (808 Family) ed. Caroline Kennedy
The War (940.53Q) Geoffrey C. Ward
Musicophilia (781.11) Oliver Sacks
Lone Survivor (958.1047) Marcus Luttrell
American Creation (973.3) Joseph Ellis
In Defense of Food (613) Michael Pollan
Free Lunch (338.973) David Cay Johnston
The Shock Doctrine (330.122) Naomi Klein
Memo to the President Elect (327.73) Madeleine Albright
Geography of Bliss (910.4) Eric Weiner
Liberal Fascism (320.533) Jonah Goldberg
Strong at the Broken Places (616.044) Richard M. Cohen
Tom Cruise (B Cruise) Andrew Morton
Real Change (320.60973) Newt Gingrich
Her Last Death (B Sonnenberg) Susanna Sonnenberg
Wishful Drinking (B Fisher) Carrie Fisher
Armageddon in Retrospect (818.54) Kurt Vonnegut
Vindicated (B Canseco) Jose Canseco
Ladies of Liberty (920) Cokie Roberts
Escape (B Jessop) Carolyn Jessop
Girls Like Us (782.42134) Sheila Weller
Standing Tall (B Stringer) Vivian Stringer
Bonk (612.6) Mary Roach
Bad Money (330.973) Kevin Phillips
Terror and Consent (363.32) Philip Bobbitt
Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea (306.7092) Chelsea Handler
Revolution (B Paul) Ron Paul
The Soloist (B Ayers) Steve Lopez
A Wolf at the Table (B Burroughs) Augusten Burroughs
A Remarkable Mother (B Carter) Jimmy Carter
A Voyage Long and Strange (970.01) Tony Horwitz
The Post-American World (303.49) Fareed Zakaria
Life Beyond Measure (B Poitier) Sidney Poitier
Audition (B Walters) Barbara Walters
The Chris Farley Show (B Farley) Tom Farley, Jr.
Stolen Innocence (B Wall) Elissa Wall
A Time to Fight (320.6) Jim Webb
Counselor (B Sorensen) Ted Sorensen
Always By My Side (B Nantz) Jim Nantz
My Stroke of Insight (362.1) Jill Bolte Taylor
Up Till Now (B Shatner) William Shatner
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets (332.0973) George Soros
The Great Derangement (973.93) Matt Taibbi
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (973.931) Vincent Bugliosi
Churchill, Hitler and “The Unnecessary War” (940.5311) Patrick Buchanan
When You are Engulfed in Flames (814.54) David Sedaris
The Last Campaign (973.922) Thurston Clarke
Sway (155.92) Ori Brafman
The Best Game Ever (796.332) Mark Bowden
The Drunkard’s Walk (519.2) Leonard Mlodinow
Fleeced (320.973) Dick Morris
One Minute to Midnight (972.9106) Michael Dobbs
Slavery By Another Name (305.896) Douglas Blackmon
Somewhere in Heaven (B Reeve) Christopher Andersen
A Champion’s Mind (B Sampras) Pete Sampras
Life With My Sister Madonna (B Madonna) Christopher Ciccone
The Dark Side (973.931) Jane Mayer
Yankee for Life (B Murcer) Bobby Murcer
Empires of the Sea (940.21) Roger Crowley
The Obama Nation (B Obama) Jerome Corsi
The Way of the World (973.931) Ron Suskind
The Case Against Barack Obama (324.9) David Freddoso
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (B Murakami) Haruki Murakami
The Limits of Power (320.973) Andrew Bacevich
Waiter Rant (647.95) Waiter
Traffic (629.283) Tom Vanderbilt
Ahead of the Curve (650.071) Philip Delves Broughton
After the Fire (362.197) Robin Gaby Fisher
We Are Soldiers Still (959.704) Harold Moore
The First Billion is the Hardest (B Pickens) T. Boone Pickens
Sarah (B Palin) Kaylene Johnson
The House at Sugar Beach (B Cooper) Helene Cooper
Hot, Flat and Crowded (363.7) Thomas Friedman
The War Within (973.931) Bob Woodward
The Strongest Tribe (956.7044) Bing West
Wesley the Owl (598.97) Stacey O’Brien
The Trouble With Boys (371.821) Peg Tyre
Anticancer (616.99) David Servan-Schreiber
Angler (973.931) Barton Gellman
Through the Storm (B Spears) Lynne Spears
Boys Will Be Boys (796.332) Jeff Pearlman
The Forever War (956.7044) Dexter Filkins
Dewey (636.8) Vicki Myron
Acedia and Me (248.8) Kathleen Norris
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity (B O’Reilly) Bill O’Reilly
Pieces of My Heart (B Wagner) Robert Wagner
Mother Warriors (618.92) Jenny McCarthy
A Promise to Ourselves (B Baldwin) Alec Baldwin
The Snowball (B Buffet) Alice Schroeder
Letter to My Daughter (818.5409) Maya Angelou
21 Nights (780.78Q) Prince
Kill Bin Laden (958.1047) Dalton Fury
The Wordy Shipmates (974.0088) Sarah Vowell
Ted, White and Blue (320.52) Ted Nugent
The Green-Collar Economy (333.79) Van Jones
Tried by War (973.7092) James McPherson
Here’s the Story (B McCormick) Maureen McCormick
Multiple Blessings (306.874) Jon Gosselin
Beyond Belief (796.357) Josh Hamilton
The Shadow Factory (327.1273) James Bamford
Against Medical Advice (B Friedman) James Patterson
The Longest Trip Home (B Grogan) John Grogan
John Lennon (B Lennon) Philip Norman
Buyology (658.834) Martin Lindstrom
Influence (746.92Q) Mary Kate Olson
Dreams From My Father (B Obama) Barack Obama
Too Fat to Fish (B Lange) Artie Lange
Call Me Ted (B Turner) Ted Turner
Outliers (302) Malcolm Gladwell
Do the Right Thing (320.52) Mike Huckabee
Why We Suck (814.54) Denis Leary
Annie Leibovitz at Work (770.92) Annie Leibovitz
The Ascent of Money (306) Niall Ferguson
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