Reading Radar

From the New York Times Bestseller Lists

Hardcover Nonfiction

  • #1

    AMERITOPIA

    Mark R Levin

    A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the utopian movement and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty.

    On the bestsellers list for 2 weeks.

  • #2

    AMERICAN SNIPER

    Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice

    A member of the Navy Seals discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.

    On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks.

  • #3

    STEVE JOBS

    Walter Isaacson

    A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur.

    On the bestsellers list for 14 weeks.

  • #4

    QUIET

    Susan Cain

    Introverts — one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society.

    On the bestsellers list for 1 week.

  • #5

    KILLING LINCOLN

    Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

    The heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

    On the bestsellers list for 18 weeks.

  • #6

    UNBROKEN

    Laura Hillenbrand

    An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

    On the bestsellers list for 63 weeks.

  • #7

    THROUGH MY EYES

    Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker

    The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course.

    On the bestsellers list for 21 weeks.

  • #8

    FAIRY TALE INTERRUPTED

    RoseMarie Terenzio

    Recollections of John F. Kennedy Jr. from his former personal assistant and confidante.

    On the bestsellers list for 1 week.

  • #9

    THINKING, FAST AND SLOW

    Daniel Kahneman

    The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.

    On the bestsellers list for 14 weeks.

  • #10

    STRATEGIC VISION

    Zbigniew Brzezinski

    President Carter’s national security adviser offers advice on how American foreign policy should respond to the shift in gravity from West to East.

    On the bestsellers list for 1 week.

  • #11

    ELIZABETH THE QUEEN

    Sally Bedell Smith

    The public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II as she approaches her Diamond Jubilee.

    On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks.

  • #12

    CATHERINE THE GREAT

    Robert K Massie

    The life of the minor 18th-century German princess who became Empress of All the Russias.

    On the bestsellers list for 11 weeks.

  • #13

    ALL IN

    Paula Broadwell with Vernon Loeb

    Gen. David Petraeus’s evolution as a soldier, from West Point to Iraq and Afghanistan.

    On the bestsellers list for 1 week.

  • #14

    OBAMAS

    Jodi Kantor

    The ups and downs of building a life in the White House

    On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks.

  • #15

    IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS

    Erik Larson

    William E. Dodd, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930s Berlin.

    On the bestsellers list for 34 weeks.

  • #16

    GREEDY BASTARDS

    Dylan Ratigan

    The host of MSNBC’s “Dylan Ratigan Show” proposes solutions to political and economic problems.

    On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks.

  • #17

    HEAVEN IS FOR REAL

    Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent

    A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.

    On the bestsellers list for 0 week.

  • #18

    BOOMERANG

    Michael Lewis

    A look at some of the places — Greece, Ireland, Iceland — hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008, and at how it happened.

    On the bestsellers list for 0 week.

  • #19

    GLOCK

    Paul M Barrett

    On the bestsellers list for 0 week.

  • #20

    A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING

    Lawrence Krauss

    A cosmologist’s account of how our universe evolved.

    On the bestsellers list for 0 week.

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