"Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!"
—Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian, essayist
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Sh*t My Dad Says
by Justin Halpern (It Books, ISBN: 9780061992704);
Last week: 1;
Weeks on List: 16
"Halpern's hilarious and touching portrait of his relationship with his father."
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Let's Take the Long Way Home
by Gail Caldwell (Random House, ISBN: 9781400067381);
Last week: 11;
Weeks on List: 3
"Caldwell's heartwarming new memoir is an August Indie Next List Great Read."
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The Power
by Rhonda Byrne (Atria, ISBN: 9781439181782);
Last week: 3;
Weeks on List: 2
"Byrne's follow-up to the international bestseller The Secret."
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Women Food and God
by Geneen Roth (Scribner, ISBN: 9781416543077);
Last week: 2;
Weeks on List: 23
"A penetrating and irreverent "guide for life" by the author of When Food Is Love."
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Packing for Mars
by Mary Roach (Norton, ISBN: 9780393068474);
Last week: 4;
Weeks on List: 4
"A very entertaining look at space travel by the bestselling author of Bonk."
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Born to Run
by Christopher McDougall (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307266309);
Last week: 7;
Weeks on List: *
"A look at the Tarahumara Indians and their practice of the lost art of distance running."
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Medium Raw
by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco, ISBN: 9780061718946);
Last week: 6;
Weeks on List: 12
"Bourdain's eagerly awaited follow-up to Kitchen Confidential."
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Empire of the Summer Moon
by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner, ISBN: 9781416591054);
Last week: 5;
Weeks on List: 9
"A vivid historical account of the 40-year battle between the Comanches and white settlers for control of the American West."
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Four Fish
by Paul Greenberg (Penguin Press, ISBN: 9781594202568);
Last week: 9;
Weeks on List: 5
"Greenberg examines the ways fish gets to our dinner tables and how to make sustainable seafood the rule rather than the exception."
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The Big Short
by Michael Lewis (Norton, ISBN: 9780393072235);
Last week: 10;
Weeks on List: 24
"A highly entertaining look at the U.S. financial crisis by the bestselling author of Liar's Poker and Moneyball."
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Committed
by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking, ISBN: 9780670021659);
Last week: 8;
Weeks on List: 23
"Gilbert's follow-up to her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love is a January Indie Next List Great Read."
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
by Sam Wasson (Harper, ISBN: 9780061774157);
Last week: 15;
Weeks on List: 5
"Wasson's fascinating look at Audrey Hepburn and the filming of Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316017923);
Last week: 13;
Weeks on List: *
"The author of Blink and The Tipping Point looks at what makes some people successful--and others not."
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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
by Eliza Griswold (FSG, ISBN: 9780374273187);
Weeks on List: 1
"A riveting investigation of the fault line between Christian and Muslim worlds."
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot (Crown, ISBN: 9781400052172);
Weeks on List: 29
"A fascinating look at the world's first "immortal" human cells grown in culture to be used in medical research."
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