Bestsellers
Last Updated: May 18, 20121. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS
William E. Dodd, the United States ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930s Berlin.
2. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
A woman’s cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951.
3. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL
A boy’s encounter with Jesus and the angels.
4. BOSSYPANTS
The “30 Rock” creator’s memoir.
5. THE VOW
After a horrific car crash, a couple begin a journey to fall in love again.
6. THE NEW JIM CROW
Taking aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men.
7. THE RICH AND THE REST OF US
The public radio hosts describe America’s middle-class poor.
8. OUTLIERS
Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
9. LOST IN SHANGRI-LA
Three 1945 crash survivors were caught between headhunters and enemy Japanese.
10. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
The story of Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches.
11. SEAL TEAM SIX
An expert sniper and former member of the Navy SEALs recounts his training and missions.
12. MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN
A journalist who covered a mnemonics championship tries competing himself.
13. BORN TO RUN
Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe.
14. THE TIPPING POINT
A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
15. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
A story of how an architect and a serial killer were linked by the World’s Fair of 1893.
16. LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY
Inspiration and setting for the show on PBS.
17. THE PSYCHOPATH TEST
A look at a potential hoax in the scientific community spurs a study of psychopathy.
18. THE GLASS CASTLE
The author recalls her bizarre childhood.
19. TURN RIGHT AT MACHU PICCHU
Retracing a journey to the Incas’ city.
20. NOTHING DAUNTED
Two Eastern women agree to teach homesteaders’ children in the mountains of Colorado in 1916.
