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Best Sellers

April 17, 2011

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Howard Schultz

Inside the List

By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER

Starbucks may be struggling to regain its glory days, but the company’s chief executive, Howard Schultz, is on top of the hardcover nonfiction list.

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This Week    Last Week Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction Weeks
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1 1 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.) A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an emergency appendectomy. 10
2 ONWARD, by Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon. (Rodale.) Schultz tells of his second stint as the C.E.O. of Starbucks and how he helped return the company to profitability. 1
3 2 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. 10
4 3 THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown.) The story of a woman whose cancer cells were extensively cultured without her permission in 1951. 10
5 4 THE SOCIAL ANIMAL, by David Brooks. (Random House.) Brooks creates two imaginary people, Harold and Erica, to illustrate his understanding of the human mind, the wellsprings of action and the causes of success and failure. 4
6 5 MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN, by Joshua Foer. (Penguin Group.) A journalist who covered a mnemonics championship tries competing himself. 4
7 HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion.) An eight-year journey between two worlds — Christian and Jewish, black and white, impoverished and well-to-do — teaches lessons about the comfort of belief. 1
8 6 RED, by Sammy Hagar with Joel Selvin. (HarperCollins.) Hagar tells of his tear through rock, from his first break with Montrose to his role as the front man of Van Halen. 3
9 RAWHIDE DOWN, by Del Quentin Wilber. (Holt.) An account of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981. 1
10 ALL MY LIFE, by Susan Lucci. (HarperCollins.) A memoir by the woman known as the “leading lady of daytime” for her role on the soap opera “All My Children.” 1
11 10 THE DRESSMAKER OF KHAIR KHANA, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. (HarperCollins.) The story of Kamila Sidiqi, a woman who started a successful sewing business in Afghanistan. 3
12 BORN TO RUN, by Christopher McDougall. (Knopf Doubleday.) Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe. 1
13 12 INSIDE OF A DOG, by Alexandra Horowitz. (Simon & Schuster.) What the world is like from a dog’s point of view. 10
14 11 CLEOPATRA, by Stacy Schiff. (Little, Brown.) This biography portrays the Macedonian-Egyptian queen in all her ambition, audacity and formidable intelligence. 10
15 COME TO THE EDGE, by Christina Haag. (Spiegel & Grau.) A memoir of the author’s five-year relationship with John F. Kennedy Jr. 1

Also Selling

  1. DECISION POINTS, by George W. Bush (Crown)
  2. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls (Simon & Schuster)
  3. PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE, by Michio Kaku (Knopf Doubleday)
  4. UNFAMILIAR FISHES, by Sarah Vowell (Penguin Group)
  5. _____ MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern (HarperCollins)
  6. BLOOD, BONES, AND BUTTER, by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)
  7. THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis (Norton)
  8. BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER, by Amy Chua (Penguin Group)
  9. JESUS OF NAZARETH, by Joseph Ratzinger (Ignatius Press)
  10. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Baker)
  11. LIFE, by Keith Richards with James Fox (Little, Brown)
  12. THE INFORMATION, by James Gleick (Knopf Doubleday)
  13. MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler (Bloomsbury)
  14. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
  15. WILD BILL DONOVAN, by Douglas Waller (Simon & Schuster)
  16. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Group)
  17. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler (Simon & Schuster)
  18. BONHOEFFER, by Eric Metaxas (Nelson)
  19. _____ FINISH FIRST, by Tucker Max (Simon & Schuster)
  20. TOWNIE, by Andre Dubus III (Norton)
About the Best Sellers

These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the April 17, 2011 print edition of the Book Review, reflecting sales for the week ending April 2, 2011.

Rankings reflect weekly sales for books sold in both print and electronic formats as reported by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. The sales venues for print books include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket and discount department stores; and newsstands. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books in a variety of popular e-reader formats.

E-book sales are tracked for fiction and general nonfiction titles. E-book sales for advice & how-to books, children’s books and graphic books will be tracked at a future date. Titles are included regardless of whether they are published in both print and electronic formats or just one format. E-books available exclusively from a single vendor will be tracked at a future date.

The universe of print book dealers is well established, and sales of print titles are statistically weighted to represent all outlets nationwide. The universe of e-book publishers and vendors is rapidly emerging, and until the industry is settled sales of e-books will not be weighted.

Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, comics, crossword puzzles and self-published books.

The appearance of a ranked title reflects the fact that sales data from reporting vendors has been provided to The Times and has satisfied commonly accepted industry standards of universal identification (such as ISBN13 and EISBN13 codes). Publishers and vendors of all ranked titles conformed in timely fashion to The New York Times Best Seller Lists requirement to allow for independent corroboration of sales for that week.

Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publisher’s division.

Weekly sales of both print books and e-books are reported confidentially to The New York Times. The Best Seller Lists are prepared by the News Surveys and Election Analysis Department of The New York Times. Royalty Share, a firm that provides accounting services to publishers, is assisting The Times in its corroboration of e-book sales.

An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders.

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