New York Times Best Seller list for Non-fiction: August 17, 2014 This Week Last Week Hardcover Nonfiction Weeks on List 1 1 AMERICA, by Dinesh DSouza. (Regnery.) A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished; also a documentary film. 4 2 A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, by Ben Macintyre. (Crown.) An account of the British Cold War spy Kim Philby focuses on the two close friends whose trust he betrayed. 1 3 4 ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. (Sentinel.) Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems. 11 4 2 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. 180 5 5 HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster.) Clinton’s memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state. 8 6 * 3 BLOOD FEUD, by Edward Klein. (Regnery.) A journalist describes animosity behind the alliance between the Clinton and Obama families. 6 7 7 DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown.) How disadvantages can work in our favor. 42 8 6 THE MOCKINGBIRD NEXT DOOR, by Marja Mills. (Penguin Press.) The author’s experience as Harper Lee’s neighbor in small-town Monroeville, Ala. 3 9 8 THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) How to solve problems creatively, from the authors of “Freakonomics.” 12 10 * 9 CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Thomas Piketty. (Belknap/Harvard University.) A French economist’s analysis of centuries of economic history predicts worsening inequality and proposes solutions. 17 11 11 I AM MALALA, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. (Little, Brown.) The experience of the young Pakistani advocate for women’s education shot by the Taliban. 32 12 15 LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. (Knopf.) The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence. 70 13 KILLING JESUS, by Bill OReilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt.) The host of The OReilly Factor recounts the events leading up to Jesus’ execution. 38 14 13 FACTORY MAN, by Beth Macy. (Little, Brown.) The story of a Virginia factory owner’s resistance to offshoring illustrates the effects of globalization on American workers. 3 15 THINGS THAT MATTER, by Charles Krauthammer. (Crown Forum.) Three decades’ worth of essays from the conservative columnist. 26 16 * 10 CLINTON, INC., by Daniel Halper. (Broadside/HarperCollins.) A view of how the Clintons attained, lost and regained political power, from an editor of The Weekly Standard. 2
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