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Hardcover Nonfiction
Published: MARCH 9, 2008

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	LIBERAL FASCISM, by Jonah Goldberg. This “alternative history of American liberalism … reveals its roots in, and commonalities with classical fascism.”	7	7
2	IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, by Michael Pollan. A manifesto urges us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”	1	8
3	THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON, by Susan Jacoby. Are Americans hostile to knowledge?	6	2
4	RECONCILIATION, by Benazir Bhutto. A posthumous look at Islam, democracy and the West	2	2
5	PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL, by Dan Ariely. An M.I.T. behavioral economist shows how emotions and social norms systematically shape our behavior.		1
6	I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!), by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Allison Silverman et al. The wit and wisdom of the mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report.”	5	20
7	AN INCONVENIENT BOOK, by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe. Beck’s solutions to problems including global warming and political correctness.	4	14
8	REAL CHANGE, by Newt Gingrich with Vince Haley and Rick Tyler. How to build a better America, from the former speaker of the House.	3	6
9	GOD’S PROBLEM, by Bart D. Ehrman. A scholar examines the Bible’s contradictory pronouncements on the meaning of suffering.		1
10	MANIC, by Terri Cheney. A memoir of life with bipolar disorder.		1
11	THE REASON FOR GOD, by Timothy Keller. A minister addresses common doubts and defends faith in a Christian God.		1
12	SEND YOURSELF ROSES, by Kathleen Turner with Gloria Feldt. A leading lady’s life.	11	2
13	THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING, by Drew Gilpin Faust. The impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll, from the new president of Harvard.	9	5
14	HOPE’S BOY, by Andrew Bridge. A memoir of foster care by an advocate for poor children.	8	3
15	LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. The only survivor of a Navy Seals operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle, his comrades and his courageous escape.	12	35
16	THE THING ABOUT LIFE IS THAT ONE DAY YOU’LL BE DEAD, by David Shields. A meditation on mortality, focused on the author’s 97-year-old father.		1

Paperback Nonfiction
Published: MARCH 9, 2008

This Week		Weeks On List
1	EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert.A writer’s yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia.	57
2	THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.	56
3	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. The Illinois senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.	9
4	DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama. The senator on life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother.	84
5	90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey. A minister on the otherworldly experience he had after an accident.	70
6	THE INNOCENT MAN, by John Grisham. Grisham’s first nonfiction book concerns a man wrongly sentenced to death.	14
7	FAIRTAX: THE TRUTH, by Neal Boortz and John Linder with Rob Woodall. A radio host and a U.S. congressman defend their 2005 plan for abolishing federal income taxes and the I.R.S.	2
8	THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings moved constantly.	111
9	INTO THE WILD, by Jon Krakauer. A man’s obsession with the wilderness ends in tragedy.	144
10	THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, by Michael Pollan. Tracking dinner from the soil to the plate, a journalist juggles appetite and conscience.	26
11	THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.	184
12	THE GOD DELUSION, by Richard Dawkins. An Oxford scientist asserts that belief in God is irrational.	8
13	THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, by Jean-Dominique Bauby. After a debilitating stroke, the editor of French Elle composed this memoir by communicating with his left eye.	7
14	JOHN ADAMS, by David McCullough. A biography of the country’s first vice president and second president.	27
15	CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR, by George Crile. A congressman’s efforts in the ’80s to steer billions to the anti-Soviet side in Afghanistan.	11
16	THE GIFT OF FEAR, by Gavin de Becker. Intuitive signals that can protect us from becoming the victims of violence.	7
17	I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max. Reflections of a self-absorbed, drunken womanizer.	21
18	BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell. The importance of instinct.	47
19	THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman. A new edition of the Times columnist’s analysis of 21st-century economics and foreign policy.	31
20	BETTER, by Atul Gawande. A surgeon and New Yorker writer describes how doctors strive to improve their performance.	3