1. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/11/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061733635
ISBN-10: 0061733636

Behind the scenes at the 2008 election with Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John and Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain and Sarah Palin.

2. I Am Ozzy - by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres

Publisher: Grand Central
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/25/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446569897
ISBN-10: 0446569895

Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.”

3. The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal that Brought Him Down - by Andrew Young

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/30/2010
ISBN-13: 9780312640651
ISBN-10: 031264065X

A tell-all by John Edwards’s closest aide.

4. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage - by Elizabeth Gilbert

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/05/2010
ISBN-13: 9780670021659
ISBN-10: 0670021652

The author of Eat, Pray, Love wrestles with, and overcomes, her ambivalence about marriage.

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5. Have a Little Faith: A True Story - by Mitch Albom

Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9780786868728
ISBN-10: 0786868724

A suburban rabbi and a Detroit pastor teach lessons about the comfort of belief.

6. Outliers: The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/18/2008
ISBN-13: 9780316017923
ISBN-10: 0316017922

Why some people succeed, from the author of Blink.

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7. Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan - by Greg Mortenson

Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780670021154
ISBN-10: 0670021156

Building schools, many of them for girls, in northeast Afghanistan; takes up where Three Cups of Tea left off.

8. Just Kids - by Patti Smith

Publisher: Ecco
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/19/2010
ISBN-13: 9780066211312
ISBN-10: 006621131X

The godmother of punk recalls her life with Robert Mapplethorpe and their yearnings for a life in art in the New York City of the 1960s and ’70s.

9. Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama is Inviting the Next Attack - by Marc A. Thiessen

Publisher: Regnery
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/18/2010
ISBN-13: 9781596986039
ISBN-10: 1596986034

“Enhanced interrogation” saved American lives and Obama is risking them, a Bush speechwriter says.

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10. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - by Atul Gawande

Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/22/2009
ISBN-13: 9780805091748
ISBN-10: 0805091742

Following checklists makes surgery safer and other activities more efficient, a doctor argues.

First Chapter

11. Going Rogue: An American Life - by Sarah Palin

Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/17/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061939891
ISBN-10: 0061939897

A memoir by the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate.

12. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Publisher: William Morrow
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780060889579
ISBN-10: 0060889578

A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.

13. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures - by Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/20/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316075848
ISBN-10: 0316075841

A decade of New Yorker essays.

14. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us - by Daniel H. Pink

Publisher: Riverhead Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9781594488849
ISBN-10: 1594488843

What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards.

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15. Open: An Autobiography - by Andre Agassi

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/09/2009
ISBN-13: 9780307268198
ISBN-10: 0307268195

The tennis champion’s autobiography.

These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the February 14 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending January 30, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.